Grace Jones
The Queen of Gay Discos
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Emerging from a Jamaican childhood and studies in Spanish at Onondaga Community College, she entered fashion through Wilhelmina Models before moving to Paris, where work with Yves Saint-Laurent, Kenzo and renowned photographers made her a leading Black model of the 1970s. Transitioning to music in 1977, she became a fixture of New York’s Studio 54 scene, later shifting to a blend of reggae, funk a…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
