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Joss Stone

Biography

Born: April 11, 1987
City and Country of Origin: Dover, Kent, England
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Awards: Grammy 2006 Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals, "Family Affair"
Top Recordings: "Fell in Love with a Boy," "Super Duper Love," "You Had Me," "Right to Be Wrong," "Spoiled," "Don't Cha Wanna Ride," "Cry Baby/Piece of My Heart," "Tell Me 'Bout It"
Joss Stone Biography: Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), best known by her stage name Joss Stone, is a BRIT Award- and Grammy Award-winning English soul, R&B, and blues singer, songwriter, and occasional actress who has sold over nine million albums worldwide.

Stone was born in Dover, Kent, England, and spent her teenage years in Ashill, Devon. She is the third of four children born to Richard and Wendy Stoker: Daniel, Lucy, and Harry. She grew up listening to a wide variety of music including R&B and soul music performed by such artists as Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin; as a result, she developed a soulful style of singing like her idols. In 2001, at the age of fourteen, she appeared on the BBC Television's talent show Star for a Night singing Donna Summer's 1979 "On the Radio". She told MTV News, "I kind of clicked into soul music more than anything else because of the vocals. You've got to have good vocals to sing soul music and I always liked it ever since I was little."

In 2002, she decided to back her ability by flying out from England for an audition in New York City with S-Curve CEO Steve Greenberg. She also signed a global music publishing deal with BMG Music Publishing in the UK.

Her debut album, The Soul Sessions, released on 16 September 2003, reached the top five in the UK Albums Chart. "Fell in Love with a Boy", which was a reworking of The White Stripes' 2001 "Fell in Love with a Girl", reached the top twenty of the UK Singles Chart, as did the second single, "Super Duper Love."

After achieving critical acclaim for The Soul Sessions, Stone recorded her second album — this time made mostly of songs co-written by her —, Mind, Body & Soul, released on 28 September 2004. It proved to be an even bigger success than her first album, as it debuted at number one in the UK (breaking the record for the youngest female ever to top the UK Albums Chart, a record previously held by Avril Lavigne) and just missed the top ten of the U.S. Billboard 200, after peaking at number eleven.The lead single, "You Had Me", became her first top ten hit in the UK. Follow-up singles "Right to Be Wrong" and "Spoiled" both made the top forty, and "Don't Cha Wanna Ride" the top twenty. "Spoiled" landed just outside the top fifty of U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, peaking at number fifty-four.

On 14 November 2004, Stone joined Band Aid 20 to benefit Sudan's troubled Darfur region. The group, consisting of such luminaries as Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin and U2 lead singer Bono, re-recorded the 1984 song "Do They Know It's Christmas?", written by Band Aid organisers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.

On 9 February 2005, Stone was nominated for three BRIT Awards, of which she won two — "British Female Solo Artist" and "British Urban Act". She performed "Angels" with Robbie Williams during the ceremony. She also received three nominations at the 2005 Grammy Awards — "Best New Artist", "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "You Had Me", and "Best Pop Vocal Album" for Mind, Body & Soul —, where she sang barefoot on stage with rock performer Melissa Etheridge, in tribute to the late blues-rock singer Janis Joplin. Their performance of "Cry Baby/Piece of My Heart" was released as a single, and, through the aid of strong digital downloads, became Stone's first (and so far only) single to enter the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, when it debuted and peaked at number thirty-two.

Stone made her film debut in the fantasy epic Eragon, based on the novel of the same name, released on 15 December 2006. In the film, Stone plays the witch Angela.

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