Obituaries

[gabrielle]

(11-19-2016, 11:49 PM)gabrielle Wrote: Sharon Jones (1956-2016)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/arts/m...-dead.html

Quote:Ms. Jones sang and shouted the kind of gospel-charged soul and funk she had grown up on. Her voice had bite, bluesiness, rhythmic savvy and a lifetime of conviction. She was backed by the Dap-Kings, the revivalist New York City R&B band that supplied her songs as she sparked their career.

She was discovered in 1996 by Gabriel Roth, a founder of the Brooklyn-based Daptone Records and the Dap-Kings’ bassist and main songwriter (under the name Bosco Mann). Ms. Jones had tried decades earlier to get a start in the music business, but was told by record labels that she didn’t have the looks to be a performer. Later, she would recall in the 2016 documentary “Miss Sharon Jones!,” the refrain became, “too short, too fat, too black and too old.”

Apparently she had a stroke watching the election results.  

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/mus...story.html