Caribbean Beat — November/December 2018 (#154)

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ackstory Dr Jones BALCOR FILM INVESTORS/Ronald Grant Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, Grace Jones — trailblazing singer, actress, record producer, and fashionista — has been a global cultural icon for decades. On the heels of her biopic Bloodlight and Bami, Jamaica has honoured her with a national award, and an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies. Nazma Muller argues that her Jamaicanness is at the heart of her success 52 WWW.CARIBBEAN-BEAT.COM
In her memoirs, published with the title I’ll Never Write My Memoirs, Grace Jones writes: “Trends come along and people say, ‘Follow that trend.’ There’s a lot of that around at the moment: ‘Be like Sasha Fierce [Beyoncé]. Be like Miley Cyrus. Be like Rihanna. Be like Lady Gaga. Be like Rita Ora and Sia. Be like Madonna.’ I cannot be like them — except to the extent that they are already being like me.” Indeed, these contemporary cultural icons are all — consciously or unknowingly — following the woman who has rocked the music world to its very foundations with her inimitable style, husky voice, and boundless audacity over the last forty years. “I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich,” Jones writes. “But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new — not for the money, and too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.” Of course, she would have to be Jamaican. In her biographical film Bloodlight and Bami, released in 2017, Jones’s Jamaicanness is clearly one of the secrets to her success — manifested in the awesome physicality that makes her performances so hypnotic (she still works out daily, lifting weights), the scathing yet playful wit, and the absolute disdain for pretension. No other culture could have produced a force so defiant, and revolutionary, as Grace Jones. “Bloodlight” refers to the red light in the studio that is switched on when an artiste is recording, and “Bami” is the popular Jamaican bread made from cassava. The title alone lets us know how profoundly Jamaica has shaped Grace Jones. Of course, she would have to be Jamaican. No other culture could have produced a force so defiant, and revolutionary, as Grace Jones courtesy bloodlight and bami Opposite page Grace Jones in 1986 Above The musical icon in a still from her biopic Bloodlight and Bami WWW.CARIBBEAN-AIRLINES.COM 53
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