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Jill Jones (other)
Jill Jones (born 1962), is an American singer and songwriter Jill Jones may also refer to: * Jill Jones (curler), American curler * Jill Jones (poet) (born 1951), Australian poet * Jill Marie Jones (born 1975), American actress * ''Jill Jones'' (album), 1987 See also * Jones (surname) * Jones (other) Jones may refer to: People *Jones (surname), a common Welsh and English surname *List of people with surname Jones *Jones (singer), a British singer-songwriter Arts and entertainment * Jones (''Animal Farm''), a human character in George Orwell' ...
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Jill Jones
Jill Jones (born July 11, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress, who performed as a backing vocalist for Teena Marie and Prince in the 1980s. Overview Jones was born in Lebanon, Ohio on July 11, 1962. Her mother, a fashion model, is of African American heritage, and her father, a jazz drummer, is Italian.Nilsen, Per (2003). ''Dance Music Sex Romance: Prince: The First Decade''. SAF Publishing, p. 315 Jones was raised mostly by her grandparents, until relocating to Los Angeles when her mother remarried. She began a singing career at age 15 as a backup vocalist for Teena Marie, whom her mother managed. Today, she maintains her own fan pages on Twitter and Facebook. Highlights from her early career include various collaborative works with Prince in the 1980s and 1990s, including a collaborative debut released under her own name. Since 2001, she has released three acoustic and dance albums, with 2009's "Living for the Weekend" being her most recent album. Early mu ...
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Jill Jones (curler)
Jill Jones is a former American curler. She is a . Teams Women's Mixed References External links * Living people American female curlers American curling champions Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-curling-bio-stub ...
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Jill Jones (poet)
Jill Jones (born 1951) is a poet and writer from Sydney, Australia. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide. In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Prize for her first book of poetry, ''The Mask and the Jagged Star'' (Hazard Press). Her third book, ''The Book of Possibilities'' (Hale & Iremonger), was published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards. Her fourth book, ''Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems'', was published by Salt Publishing in 2002. It won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier's Literary Awards). Her fifth full-length book, ''Broken/Open'' was published by Salt Publishing in 2005. It was shortlisted for ''The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory . ...
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Jill Marie Jones
Jill Marie Jones (born January 4, 1975) is an American actress and former professional dancer and cheerleader. Jones is best known for her role as Antoinette "Toni" Childs-Garrett on the UPN comedy series, '' Girlfriends'' (2000–2006). Jones has appeared in a number of films, and had the recurring role as Cynthia Irving on the Fox supernatural series, '' Sleepy Hollow''. From 2015 to 2016, she starred as Amanda Fisher in the Starz horror-comedy series, ''Ash vs Evil Dead''. Early life Jones was born in Dallas, Texas. After attending Duncanville High School, and Texas Woman's University, Jones was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader for two years, a Dallas Mavericks Dancer for one year, and toured with the United Service Organization (USO) and United States Department of Defense to Korea, Japan, Israel, and Egypt. She has also performed on "Monday Night Football" and "The Miss Texas Pageant." She started her career as model, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting full-t ...
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Jill Jones (album)
''Jill Jones'' is the self-titled debut solo album from the artist of the same name; Jill Jones. The album was released in 1987 on Paisley Park / Warner Bros. Records. It was produced by Jones and Prince. Her debut was warmly received in Europe, but failed to chart in the U.S. on the Billboard Top 100 Pop, Black, or Dance charts. None of the three released singles managed to enter any of the Top 100 charts. Warner Bros. Records never pushed the album. Background In 1983, Jones moved to Minneapolis to begin work on her solo album. Prince spent three years working with his ''"protégé"''. Prince wrote and performed much of the music on the album while Jones sang all of the vocals. David Z. did a large portion of the audio engineering and music production (without Prince) at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. In the book ''Prince and the Parade & Sign O' The Times Era Sessions'', Jones was quoted as saying she and David Z had a lot of latitude when it came to their sound ...
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Jones (surname)
Jones is a surname of English and Welsh origin meaning "son of John". The surname is common in Wales. It evolved into variations of traditionally Welsh names: Ieuan, Iowan, Ioan, Iwan, or even Siôn (note how the letter 'J' was originally being pronounced as 'i', akin to how J is pronounced in the Latin alphabet). The sound generated from ‘Si-’ in Siôn is a Welsh approximation of the English ‘J’ sound that does not exist natively to the language (refer to Irish ''Seán''), equivalent to the English ‘Sh’ such as in “''shed''.” It may exist as an anglicisation of these names during periods in which many Welsh were changing their names and ridding their patronymic names (“''Ap Rhys''” to “''Prys''” and then “''Price''” in English, or attaching an ‘-s’ to the end of a given name to signify an old patronym: “''Owain''” to “''Owen''” to finally “''Owens''”), or English speakers transliterating these names to a more conventional spelling thro ...
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