After the commercial success of "Nightclubbing", Island Records reissued "Warm Leatherette" with new artwork, a picture of Grace Jones performing "Walking In The Rain", taken from her 1982 concert video " A One Man Show". Featuring – The Strictly Unreasonable Zang Tuum Tumb Big Beat Colossus, The Wall Of Men, Wash Them Go Go Two 200-gram super-heavyweight vinyl records, containing Grace Jones' critically celebrated recent album, 'Hurricane', released on vinyl for the very first time Jones appears to turn Joy Division’s classic on its head: she recites the words in a blank sprechgesang at odds with Ian Curtis’ mournful delivery and changes the lyrics so the song’s narrator is its subject rather an observer. But its conclusion, where her voice becomes a terrified scream, is every bit as harrowing and bleak as the original. 15. The Apple Stretching (1982) Grace Jones at the Roseland ballroom in New York on New Year’s Eve 1987. Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage 14. Warm Leatherette (1980)

Her first connection with music perhaps is her uncredited appearance on the cover of the 1973 reissue of Billy Paul - Ebony Woman. Jamaican singer, actress and supermodel born on May 19, 1948 [some sources claim 1950 or 1952] in Spanish Town, Jamaica, West Indies. She moved to Syracuse, New York, in her early teens, where her parents had relocated and founded the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ.

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Warm Leatherette" is the fourth studio album by Grace Jones, released in May 1980. Her first album recorded at Compass Point Studios, it features contributions from the reggae duo Sly & Robbie and marks a dramatic change in sound, dropping the disco of her first three albums in favour of new wave and reggae. Working closely with acclaimed artist Chris Levine this edition has been hand crafted to the very highest standards by The Vinyl Factory in celebration of the new Grace Jones by Chris Levine exhibition ‘Stillness at the Speed of Light’, taking place at The Vinyl Factory gallery in Soho from April 30th to May 14th 2010.

The album includes mostly covers, of songs by The Normal, The Pretenders, Roxy Music, Smokey Robinson, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and Jacques Higelin, plus two original songs. She moved to New York at 18 and began a modelling career that took her to Paris where she worked for Yves Saint Laurent, Azzedine Alaïa and Kenzo Takada and photographers such as Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin. While in Paris, she branched out into a recording career, first as a disco diva, working with Tom Moulton, before evolving towards a reggae / new wave sound created at Compass Point Studios with Sly & Robbie and marked by striking visuals created by her then partner Jean-Paul Goude. The first album in her critically-lauded ‘Compass Point Trilogy’ saw Jones working with an all-star session group (rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, plus percussionist Uziah Thompson, along with keyboardist Wally Badarou, and guitarists Mikey Chung and Barry Reynolds) and leave ’70s disco well behind. 2CD deluxe edition

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Grace is the granddaughter of Dan Williams (8), daughter of Marjorie Jones, sister of Bishop Noel Jones and Chris Jones (20), and mother of Paulo Goude. Show more