Sharon Jones, a late-blooming soul singer who emerged in her late 40s with a gale-force voice and a magnetic stage presence, and who kept performing for the past three years while being treated for ...

Soul and funk singer Sharon Jones, who toiled in anonymity for years before finding stardom with her backing band the Dap-Kings, has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, the group announced on ...

Throughout their career together, Jones and her band gave listeners something to feel with every recording and every performance. That's still... Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings' 'Soul Of A Woman' Is A ...

Legendary singer Sharon Jones passed away Friday at the age of 60 after battling pancreatic cancer. Jones, who was part of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, was born in North August, South Carolina in ...

Barbara Kopple’s Miss Sharon Jones! tells the kind of true story that makes you want to kick creation itself square in the crotch. Here’s that firecracker soul singer, nearing her sixties, her boogie ...

Daptone Records has announced the 20th-anniversary remastering of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings’ pinnacle album, Naturally. Due on Friday, May 2, 2025, the late Jones’ birthday, the forthcoming ...

The album kicks off in a manner that might confuse the odd traditionalist with “8 Days (of Hanukkah)” – a suitably funky take on the Festival of Lights. Similarly, “Ain’t no Chimneys in the Projects” ...

All of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings' new album, Give the People What They Want, was recorded before Jones was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. None of its 10 songs are explicitly about Jones going ...

“They got a lot of singers coming out today that say they do R&B, soul and funk,” Sharon Jones told OffBeat ahead of her Jazz Fest set back in April. “But now, when they say R&B they mean pop…Don’t ...

Barbara Kopple’s Miss Sharon Jones! tells the kind of true story that makes you want to kick creation itself square in the crotch. Here’s that firecracker soul singer, nearing her 60s, her boogie ...