When Sharon Jones recorded “Retreat,” the first song off her new album, “Give the People What They Want,” out Tuesday, the singer intended it to be about a done-wrong lover declaring her ...

Growing up in South Carolina, soul singer Sharon Jones knew from the first time she sang in her church's Christmas play that she would be a musician. "I was, like, maybe 8, 9 years old ...

Soul singer Sharon Jones, who died Friday at age 60 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, didn’t find commercial success until she was well into her 40s. When she did, it was through her ...

The legendary singer's band The Dap Kings and documentarian Barbara Kopple discuss how the autobiographical song about Jones' defying the odds has taken on new meaning. Sharon Jones’ life ended ...

There was so much to admire about Sharon Jones. As a child, her mother moved Jones and her siblings from South Carolina to Brooklyn to escape an abusive husband. Despite the young Jones’ natural ...

Sharon Jones did her best with us Friday night (April 22) at New Orleans Jazz Fest. Before the soul singer even took the stage, her band, the Dap-Kings, encouraged the crowd at the Blues Tent to ...

For veteran soul singer Sharon Jones, 2013 was a year of frustration, fear and false starts: She'd just announced the summer release of her fifth album, Give the People What They Want, when she ...

Sharon Jones, the fiery soul singer who spent decades in obscurity before becoming a Grammy-nominated soul and funk vocalist with her longtime backing band the Dap-Kings, died on Friday of ...

In 2002, the prodigious talents of Sharon Jones were discovered by the world. A 46-year-old woman who had worked as a corrections officer on Rikers Island and an armored-car guard for Wells Fargo ...

December 17, 2020 • From Sharon Jones to Amy Grant — and from Los Lobos to a fervent pair of hamsters — we revisit more than a decade's worth of seasonal Tiny Desk performances. December 23 ...

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their second album Naturally with a remastered reissue of the late singer’s 2005 soul classic. While Naturally wasn’t Jones ...