Joss Stone

Joss talked to OK magazine about her performance at the MLK Dream Concert. She said that people questioned her appearance at the concert because she isn’t American.

I love her response

“Everybody keeps asking me ‘why are you here?’ because I’m English,” friendly Joss says. “I’m like, ‘I don’t get that question.’ He changed the world; he didn’t just change America. He changed the whole world! If he didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. I wouldn’t have the friends I do. There are so many things. Basically, he gave up his life — his whole life — just to make people happy, and to spread peace and help people understand that there is only one level. The one above that is God. There was nobody like that before him, and there was nobody like that after him. We need to keep remembering him. We need to keep talking about it. There are young people out there, and they need to know his name.”

Source : Ok Magazine

EA Sports has announced the soundtrack for its annual NBA release, NBA Live 2008

Aasim - Customer
Cool Kids - 88
Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa
The Dey - Get the Feeling
DJ Jazzy Jeff ft. CL Smooth - All I Know
DJ Vadim ft. Emo and Syrus - Fear Feats
Dub Pistols ft. Terry Hall - Running From the Thoughts
Eve - Tambourine
The Hives - Well Alright
Kid Beyond - Mothership
KRS-One & Marley Marl - Hip Hop Lives
LCD Soundsystem - Us v Them
Stephen Marley - Hey Baby
Kevin Michael ft. Wyclef Jean - It Don’t Make Any Difference
Mr. J. Medeiros - Silent Earth (Ohmega Watts Remix)
Mark Ronson ft. Tiggers - Toxic
Joss Stone - Tell Me ‘Bout It
Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson - The Way I Are
UnkleJam - Love Ya

Joss’ version of L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole is now available on I-Tunes. The song is part of the Coco Chanel tv commerical “film” featuring Keira Knightley.

Joss it turns out was hand picked by Coco Chanel to perform for the add.

A primetime appearance of the commercial ABC runs October 1st through October 7th on such programs as Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives, and Ugly Betty.

Stone’s cover of “L-O-V-E” is currently available for purchase on iTunes.

Joss has a myspace page, which is where I found this picture.
There are some other cute pictures there and hopefully joss will update soon.

The new york times has posted this review of Joss’s performance at the MLK Dream Concert. The concert is scheduled to air on tv in January.

MOST musical variety shows are disorganized nightmares, but the Dream Concert - to raise funds for a Martin Luther King memorial in Washington - didn’t disappoint. It completely lived up to its name.

In a moment of concert surrealism, the ever-shrinking TV meteorologist Al Roker stepped onto the big Radio City Music Hall stage and reported “I have a weather flash . . . it’s hot in here!”

Uncle Al was right.

Killer performances by Aretha Franklin, Garth Brooks and Joss Stone topped the 14-act lineup, which also featured Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana and opera great Jessye Norman.

The show was smart on many levels; there were top acts and a fast pace that never lost momentum. The brilliant theme celebrated the words and philosophy of Dr. King, and it connected the performance, from the rise of the curtain to final bow. This accomplishment was remarkable, given that Radio City is a difficult hall in which to create intimacy.

Hip-hop refugee Wyclef Jean was the best and first to really engage the audience. When Jean wasn’t getting a big enough rise from the audience, he took his act off the stage and into the crowd, rousing the sedate fans from their pricey, $1,000 seats.

While the Queen of Soul stayed on the stage, she also unglued the people from their seats with her classic Motown spelling lesson, “R-E-S-P-E-C-T.”

Among the other standout songs in the three-hour event were the Joss Stone duet with newcomer Ryan Shaw on the Sam Cooke classic “A Change is Gonna Come,” Brooks’ white-Stetson cover of “Abraham, Martin and John,” and Stevie Wonder’s famously funky “Superstition.”

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Joss Stone performs a cover of Nat King Cole’s L-O-V-E for an upcoming commercial for Chanel Coco Mademoiselle.

The commerical features Keira Knightly, who is the newest spokesperson for the perfume.

The ad will air on E!, Bravo and VH1 from September 24th through October 7th.

Joss Stone arrives at The Dream Concert to Benefit the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial at Radio City Music Hall in New York

Joss has gotten together with record executive and Kimora Lee Simmons to launch the Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN).

Led by women executives in music, television, film, radio and other forms of entertainment, WEEN is dedicated to supporting, promoting and defending the positive, balanced portrayal of women in entertainment and in society.

The coalition, which is comprised of women of all races and ages, was created in light of recent discussion surrounding the portrayal of women of color in entertainment, specifically in Hip-Hop music.

Source: Allhiphop.com

Joss recently did an interview with Live Daily . In the interview she talks about how she has changed since her first album, about working the new album.

She also discusses the Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network
” I think women are sometimes made to feel like they can’t do certain things. I try to prove everybody wrong. We can do these things. We can do them all–especially young women. You have to fight to get people to believe you or with you on something, especially young girls. They seem to be so fragile and seem to be precious and all these little things. But, hey, we can do the same as men–if not more. We lay down and push people out of our vagina. Come on. We can do that, we can do anything. ”

Joss also discusses how/where she writes music.

“When I’m at home with my mom and that, I can’t write. I don’t do anything. I might be there for a week. I go to my home base and I clean around the house. I do my errands. I help my mom cook dinner. I just do the normal s— that normal people do. Sometimes I write. My mom has a studio in the house now, so it’s hard to kind of stay away from it. She has kids come in and they write and they sing. Young kids, like 10. I’ll go in and help them sometimes. But, usually, when I’m at home, I’m chilling. I don’t do anything like that. There’s not much time to do anything else. When I take the time to write, I’ll go to a different place and I’ll just do it. ”

For the full interview visit livedaily.com

Lily Allen, Joss Stone and Beth Ditto are to play this year’s Swarovski Fashion Rocks concert.

Uma Thurman and Samuel L Jackson will host the event at London’s Royal Albert Hall on October 18.

The fashion and music extravaganza will raise money for the Prince’s Trust.

Alicia Keys, andTimbaland will also feature in the line-up. Designers confirmed to take part include Armani, Versace, Chanel and Stella McCartney.

The acts will perform live as the designers showcase their collections. Each designer has picked an artist to be paired with.

article source: google news

Joss has designed a wristband to raise money as part of a fundraising initiative from 21st Century Leaders, a non-profit organization that plans to raise $3 million over three years through its “Whatever It Takes” celebrity-designed merchandise. So far, the organization has raised almost $1.5 million to fund “charitable projects in developing countries, and contribute to the protection of the environment and other causes”.

Joss performs at the Maxim Oasis VMA Party at the Mandalay Bay Moorea Beach Club on August 8, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada

photo source: wire image