Thursday, June 27, 2013

YOU HAD HER

Joss Stone was born under the name Jocelyn Eve Stoker in Dover, Kent, England, United Kingdom on April 11, 1987.  However, she didn't stay there for long.  Her family relocated to and she grew up in Ashill, Devon.  Richard Stoker was her father and he important to win the game show contest, but that didn't result in a recording contract.  Not discouraged, Joss Stone comand exported fruit and nuts for a living. Growing up with three siblings, she was number three in the birth order. Her mother was her entertainment industry manager until Joss Stone replaced her in 2004 with somebody else. She attended and performed concerts at Uffculme Comprehensive School in Uffculme, Devon. Stricken with Dyslexia and not knowing what to do about it, Joss Stone dropped out of high school while at the age of sixteen. Joss Stone competed in the reality television competition game show Star for a Night which was canceled after only one season and five episodes. She managed peted in a second reality television competition game show Steps to the Stars and she won that too.  However, that didn't result in a recording contract either.  It was her performance at a charity concert show that got her a recording contract.  Her debut album, The Soul Sessions, was released on 2003.  Her second album, Mind, Body & Soul, was released on 2004.  Her fourth album, Introducing Joss Stone, was released on 2007.  Her fifth album, Colour Me Free, was released on 2009. 
On 2011, she joined a rock group called SuperHeavy with Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart (From the Eurythmics),  Allah-Rakha Rahman aka A.R. Rahman, Damian Marley (The son of reggae legend Bob Marley).  The rock group only recorded one album before breaking up.  Both LP1 and The Best of Joss Stone 2003–2009 was released on 2011.  Her latest album, The Soul Sessions Vol. 2, was released on 2012.  Joss Stone played King Henry VIII fourth wife Anne of Cleves on the television series the Tudors.  She was a series regular of the Tudors only for the third and fourth seasons (King Henry VIII married six wives and he famously either divorced or killed five of them).  Joss Stone is recording and touring to this exact moment of time.






























 
 




 
  






























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