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Grace Jones is a Jamaican-born singer, songwriter, performer, model and actor whose music joins reggae, funk, disco, new wave and electronic production with an unmistakable visual language. Her recording career moved from the disco-oriented Portfolio period into the Compass Point sessions that produced albums including Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing and Living My Life. Working with musicians and producers around the Compass Point All Stars, Jones developed spare, rhythm-led arrangements that placed her controlled contralto at the centre of dub-informed bass, rock guitar and synthesizer texture. Songs such as Pull Up to the Bumper, Private Life and Slave to the Rhythm show the range of that catalogue and its lasting influence on pop and club culture. Her stage work treats voice, movement, costume and image as parts of one authored performance, making Live PA or concert credit more accurate than an assumed DJ role. Her official site documents the continuing musical and performance career, while the Amnesia Glitterbox programme separately verifies the occurrence-specific live appearance.