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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

How Grace Jones became a powerful pop star

Grace Jones knows how to keep an audience. She’s said, “If the lights should go out, if the roof, the electricity, the sound fails, I can still perform and hold the audience -- in the dark, without any trimmings.”

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By Madeleine Brand • Apr 18, 2018 • 1 min read

Grace Jones knows how to keep an audience. She’s said, “If the lights should go out, if the roof, the electricity, the sound fails, I can still perform and hold the audience -- in the dark, without any trimmings.” The new documentary, “Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami,” includes footage from her concerts and intimate scenes with her family in Jamaica.

Filmmaker Sophie Fiennes at KCRW. Photo by Amy Ta.

Grace Jones. Photo by Jean Paul Goude.

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