Sharon Jones
Sharon Jones
Sharon Lafaye Jonesis an American soul and funk singer. She is the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a soul and funk band based in Brooklyn, New York. Jones experienced breakthrough success relatively late in life, releasing her first record when she was 40 years old. In 2014, Jones was nominated for her first Grammy, in the category Best R&B Album, for Give the People What They Want...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGospel Singer
Date of Birth4 May 1956
CityAugusta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm lookin' at these Disney characters, these young girls coming out looking like, little whores.
There ain't no way I'm going to be droppin' nothing. If I was in my twenties, maybe. But now I try to keep it looking decent. I don't want to expose too much of my bare ass.
You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.
I don't want to be home just taking medicine and waiting to die, you know? That's not something I'm about.
I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.
I just want to give my love to God.
I sing because I'm happy.
God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know, oh, yes I know, he watches over me.
Play with me and you play with fire.
Not only do I say, get up and get out, I tell the cancer to get up and get out. And if you don't get up and get out, I'm going to shout you out. And I get to shout.
Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.
I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church...
Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.
I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.