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Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including R&B, , , , and standards. Rickie Lee Jones is a singer songwriter whose style leans on and /R&B timing and personification.

Jones settled in LA at the age of nineteen, doing the classic waiting tables stuff until she landed a recording contract with Warners. Her self-titled debut album in 1979 was a big success, as was the single, Chuck E.’s in Love, about her musician friend Chuck E. Weiss. At the 1980 Grammy Awards, she won a Grammy for Best New Artist, and also received four more nominations: for Record of the Year; Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female; and Song of the Year (for “Chuck E.’s in Love”). While none of her subsequent recordings achieved the same level of commercial success, Jones has continued releasing critically acclaimed albums that have explored a variety of sonic terrain from jazz standards to trip hop influenced works.

Jones’ pursuit of jazz standards led to the recording of “The Moon Is Made of Gold” and “Autumn Leaves” for Rob Wasserman’s album Duets in 1985. The latter track earned her another Grammy nomination. And in 1990, her duet with Dr. John, a cover of “Makin’ Whoopee”, earned the artist her second Grammy Award, this time in the category of Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group.
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  • dziurka1989

    Rickie Lee was Tom Waits girlfriend :)

    February 2012

  • knotweed

    the voice of an angel ......sitting on a Little Fluffy Cloud :)

    January 2012

  • faustandkluster

    http://www.last.fm/group/70s+Warner+Bros. please join.

    November 2011

  • Druid66

    She picked up all the right influences, didn't she, in her haunts? Blues, R&B, soul, folk, she's got them all in her work.

    September 2011

  • ddluvsruski

    I am appreciating her other songs other than Chucky's in Love. You can't beat that little ditty. She sings with soul and heart. Where is she now?

    July 2011

  • AndoDoug

    Strange how 'On Saturday Afternoons in 1963', a tender little meditation on being a kid and learning to stop time has reached double the listens of her second most popular song on last.fm. It was not, as you can imagine, a hit in '79 (obviously the song's new-found success is due to its unlikely appearance on season 1 of a certain small screen medical drama), but it did come out as a single back in the day - on the B-side of Chuck E.'s in Love!

    March 2011

  • justinmcgonigle

    I finally got to see her. She performed "Rickie Lee Jones" and "Pirates" in their entirety. She was amazing.

    March 2011

  • Hillbilly_Cat

    aww, I'm in love c:

    February 2011
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