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Joss Stone Facts
Joscelyn Eve
Stoker was born on April 11, 1987, in the pastoral country of Dover,
England. She grew up in the small country county of Devon.
Joss purchased an Aretha Franklin Greatest Hits album as a teenager
which inspired her to sing. A little while later Joss auditioned
for a popular BBC show called Star for a Night.
Anticipating
her impending career as a singer, Joscelyn and her mother, Wendy,
changed her name to the catchier and sultrier Joss Stone. They then flew
to New York to meet with Steve Greenberg, CEO of S-Curve Records (known
for popularizing Hanson and the Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out").
Entranced by Joss' soulful power, he signed her on and hired Miami soul
legend Betty Wright to refine her singing. Greenberg and Wright teamed
her up with a Miami soul dream team, including guitarist Little Beaver,
organist Timmy Thomas and keyboardist Latimore. In just four days they
recorded a suite of lost soul gems and a cover of The White Stripes'
"Fell In Love With a Girl" (renamed "Fell In Love With a Boy") with
hip-hop heavyweights The Roots. The result was her debut album, The Soul
Sessions, which came out on September 16th, 2003 to the delight of
critics and to the horror or Britney and her candy-pop cohorts. - Askmen
Joss Stone
Quote
"I didn't
write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them. It's soul
music. I have to feel it, in order to sing it with a little bit of
soul."
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