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Sharon Jones was born Sheron Lafaye Jones in Augusta, Georgia on May 4th 1956. Her mother moved to Brooklyn soon thereafter, however Jones was sent down south for a few months every year to stay with her family. As a child, she and her brothers would imitate the songs and dances of James Brown, who shared their hometown. Like many rhythm and blues entertainers, she began performing in church at a very young age where her voice would find a lifelong home and inspiration. As a teenager in the early nineteen seventies, she began singing outside of the church in talent shows and with local funk groups. Later she would make her living with a combination of sporadic session work as a mostly anonymous voice on various dance records (sometimes credited as Lafaye Jones), singing with wedding bands, and a handful of day jobs which included stints as both a prison guard at New York’s notorious Riker’s Island, and an armored car guard for Wells Fargo Bank. In 1996 she was called in to sing back-up at a Desco Records studio session for 70’s soul legend Lee Fields.

Desco was a small independent specializing in traditional funk and soul pressed exclusively to wax. Co-owners and producers Phillip Lehman and Bosco ‘Bass’ Mann had called Jones in on a tip from a sax player who was seeing her at the time. As the other two girls never showed up for the session, Jones cut all the background parts for the session herself, and proceeded to cut the impromptu prison rap over Switchblade, which had originally been intended for a man.

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  • Levold

    Wrong. She is active without the Dap-Kings as well.

    março 2011
  • SoulJazzsterInc

    If she has not more listens, it's because this page is wrong. The right artist page is Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

    setembro 2010
  • Moshcam

    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings in Sydney live concert video: http://www.moshcam.com/?#?page=player&type=gig&id=454

    fevereiro 2009
  • jsa13

    Saw them on Austin City Limits, F%#$ incredible!

    novembro 2008
  • honkynut

    of all the duplicate conflicting band & artist names & not too mention grammatical inconsistencies in last.fm - you pick on captialisation?? Yeesh.....

    outubro 2007
  • Snadra

    Why isn't it Sharon Jones with capital letters?

    março 2007
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