Joss Stone

During her recent appearance at the Frosted Pink Benefit, Joss sang “Bruised but not Broken”. Shades of Pink Choir, a group of breast cancer survivors, of Atlanta, GA served as her back up singers.

Joss is lending her support to an intiative designed to raise awareness of hearing problems.

The goal of the Hear the World Initiative is to educate the general public about the importance of hearing, the social and emotional impacts of hearing loss and the benefits of available solutions for those with hearing impairment. (according to the Hear The World Website)

The campaign was started by hearing device manufacturer Phonak and includes many other artists including Bryan Adams, Amy Winehouse, and Common.

According to an interview on the site Joss states “Being able to hear means that you can enjoy all the sounds of the world.

The intiative includes an ad campaign and Joss also appeared in the Hear the World Magazine

Joss Stone attended the MTV Europe Awards last night in Munich, Germany. Joss presented at the award ceremony. I am not sure what she was thinking in this outfit and I really don’t like her hair.

Her outfit was way too revealing and the skirt was both hideous and short. What was worse was her hair. She had it up, which she has been doing lately, but this time she corn-rowed it. It looks awful in my opinion.

The british media is already taken to criticizing her for this new hair.

Joss performed the night before in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and looked like her normal self so I don’t know if she was just trying to do something outrageous for the awards show or what.

Please check out these sites for further information about the UK music scene or MTV

Joss made a charity appearance this week, appearing last night at the 2007 Angels Ball held at the The New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square to sponsor the The G&P Foundation for Cancer Research
The foundation was created in 1996 by Denise Rich and her family in memory of her daughter Gabrielle Rich Aouad who passed away at the age of 27 after a long and valiant struggle with leukemia.

The mission of The G&P Foundation is to fund basic and clinical medical research in both conventional and integrative disciplines which focus on prevention, treatment and quality of life issues of leukemia, lymphoma and related cancers. Since 1998, The G&P Foundation has awarded over 6.4 million dollars in Medical Research Awards making G&P one of the largest non-governmental sources of support to blood cancer researchers at the nation’s leading institutions. We remain committed to funding research until a cure is found.

Joss wore a bright fushcia dress and had her hair pulled back. Once again as you can see she performed barefoot. She performed Tell Me ‘Bout It” and “Bruised but not Broken”

Also at the event were Randy Jackson from American Idol ,Star Jones formerly of the view, John Legend, Kelly Ripa, Kelly Rowland and many other stars.

At the frosted pink benefit, Joss performed L-O-V-E with Natalie Cole.

Joss is among the celebrities who turned out for the Frosted Pink charity fundraiser for breast cancer in LA earlier this week.

The event will area on TV this Sunday on ABC from 4-6pm. The event presented by Sanofi-aventis and Wachovia Featuring a dynamic mix of music, figure skating, and Hollywood stars empowering women, raising awareness, and inspiring action about women’s cancers.

According to a story on this is north scotland.co.uk, Joss has trouble saying no to charity events.

The Devon songstress isn’t akin to declining good deeds. She has performed at the Band Aid 20, Live 8 and Live Earth concerts, as well as The Dream Concert which was a tribute to Martin Luther King.

People ask me and I say ‘yes!’ Simple as that,” the 20-year-old told OK!

“When people ask me to help anything that I believe needs helping, then you don’t need to explain why. If I can, and I have time in my day, I’ll do it.”

She added: “Why not? There’s nothing that would stop me from helping people.”

Last night, I had the opportunity to attend the Joss Stone concert at the Fillmore in Detroit. This was my first time at the Fillmore, formerly the State Theater. The concert was mostly standing room only, with some balcony and mezzanine seats. The crowd was a wide mixture of ages, and races, what I would find typical for a Joss concert.

Javier was the first act and I was surprised when he just walked out on stage with no introduction at all and just started playing. His voice is very song and his songs seems to tame the restless crowd. One of his songs, “Ok Here’s the Truth”, an almost country sounding ballad is definitely worth listening to and is available on his myspace site.

After Javier finished, there was a set change and then Ryan Shaw came out. Ryan’s energy was much stronger then Javier’s as he got the crowd up and excited. His uptempo love songs had the crowd hyped. His song “Do The 45”, had the crowd dancing right along with him. He also did an acoustic version of the Beatle’s “Let it Be”, that was amazing.

Finally it was time for Joss, the theater had finally started to fill up.

Joss was introduced by Michael Baisden of Mix 92.3, a local radio station. He called her a soul sensation. He said he also likes to call her “White Chocolate”.

Joss’s background singers and band came out first and played a bit as we waited for Joss. The stage backdrop was a light purple and the stage lights were also softened to a lavender tone. Joss finally came out in a short purple dress, her hair full of curls in what now is almost becoming her trademark red shade.

She opened with “Girl they won’t believe it”, her energy got the crowd up and excited. She was her giggly self, easily distracted between songs by the crowds whistles and shouts of “I love you Joss” . She mentioned she was nervous being in Detroit for the first time since it is the home of Motown. Her voice was strong and the venue was great for Joss as it was small and intimate. She then played “Tell Me What we gonna do now”.
She continued on playing “Music”, which she said is one of the few things you can love unconditionally and 20 years from now you can still like the same song.
She spent most of the night dancing from one corner of the stage to the other, making sure the crowd didn’t feel left out.
She got the crowded involved with the song “Diggin on You”. Having them do the “Yeahs”
She then told the story about how Bruised but not broken was written for her when she was going through a rough time, and then sang the song with all of her heart.

She asked girls to grab their guys and guys their girls as she sang the song “ Put your Hands on Me.

She then took a request from a young girl in the front of the crowd and played her hit, “Baby, Baby, Baby” .

This was the last concert for Joss in the United States this fall, but you should definitely check her out in your town if you have the chance.

Prehaps you have heard of the new starbucks promo. Starbucks is teaming up with itunes to offer iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks. Each day Starbucks will offer a song of the day that can be downloaded for free from Itunes.

Joss is among the artists being showcased in this process.

According to the starbucks website ““Song of the Day” will offer hand-picked songs from top artists including Bob Dylan, Joss Stone, Dave Matthews, Bebel Gilberto, John Mayer, KT Tunstall, John Legend, Annie Lennox, Joni Mitchell, Keith Urban and Paul McCartney plus great music from up-and-coming artists such as Sia, Band of Horses, Hilary McRae, Frederico Aubele and Sara Bareilles.”

Each day the new song of the day will be announced. Customers will receive their download card good until the end of 2007.

In addition, starbucks is also going to be allowing store patrons to download the songs now playing on their in-store radios. There will be special feature will be a one of a kind system with itunes to allowing you to download music as you hear it.

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.

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

At the VMA’s, Joss talked to Ross the intern, from NBC. Ross was doing a poll for Sodahead.com. Asking who’s album would be better Kanye’s or 50’s. Joss picked 50.

I love her glasses in this photo.