{"id":269826,"date":"2016-11-19T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=269826"},"modified":"2016-11-19T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T12:30:04","slug":"soul-revival-singer-sharon-jones-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/soul-revival-singer-sharon-jones-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul revival singer Sharon Jones dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sharon Jones, the singer who spearheaded a soul revival movement with her band the Dap-Kings, has died at the age of 60.<\/p>\n
Jones died on Friday in a New York hospital after a battle with pancreatic cancer, her representative said.<\/p>\n
Despite her powerhouse voice, Jones failed to make a breakthrough for decades until a recording session led to a Dap-Kings album in 2002.<\/p>\n
The band later won a Grammy nomination and performed at Glastonbury.<\/p>\n
British producer Mark Ronson was among those paying tribute.<\/p>\n
He used the Dap-Kings as the backing band for another soul revival star, Amy Winehouse, on her breakthrough album Back in Black, released in 2006.<\/p>\n
He said: “Sharon Jones had one of the most magnificent, gut-wrenching voices of anyone in recent time.”<\/p>\n
‘You got to be brave’<\/strong><\/p>\n Members of the band were at her bedside when she died, her representative, Judy Miller Silverman, said.<\/p>\n The cancer was diagnosed in 2013 but failed to stop Jones performing during periods of remission.<\/p>\n “It’s therapy,” she said in July. “I know I need rest and sleep. But I want to work and that is our job.<\/p>\n “`You got to be brave. I want to use the time that I have. I don’t want to spend it all laid up, wishing I had done that gig,” she told Associated Press.<\/p>\n Barbara Kopple, who directed the documentary Miss Sharon Jones! released this year, said the singer even lit up hospital wards when she was undergoing chemotherapy treatment.<\/p>\n She said: “When people are around or there’s an audience, that gives her fuel and she forgets her pain.”<\/p>\n
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