Joss Stone Trivia
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Birth name: Joscelyn Eve Stoker
Date of birth: 11 April 1987
Place of birth: Dover, Kent, England, UK
Nickname: Jossie
Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Performing barefoot
- Took part in the Band Aid 20 re-recording of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. [14 November 2004]
- Supports Liverpool Football Club
- Nominated for 3 Grammys: best new artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (‘You Had Me’) & Best Pop Vocal Album (Mind, Body & Soul) (2005)
- Stone recorded a new version of the song “Unchained Melody” (first recorded by Todd Duncan in 1955) with French singer Johnny Hallyday on his 2008 album Ça ne finira jamais, on which Stone sings the original English lyrics while Hallyday sings the lyrics to Les Chaussettes Noires’ 1962 French-language version “Les enchaînés”.
- In mid-December 2007, Stone was named the new Flake girl to star in a series of television adverts for the Cadbury Schweppes product in the spring of 2008. According to the company, she is the first non-model to take the role.
- On 26 October 2008, Stone sang the British national anthem, God Save the Queen, before the NFL match between the San Diego Chargers and the New Orleans Saints, held at Wembley Stadium, London.
- On 7 December 2008, Stone performed The Who’s 1965 song “My Generation” on CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors TV special at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., honouring Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey.
- On 27 December 2008, Stone released the song “The Anti-Christmas Carol” and its video on her website as the 2008 Christmas gift. In contrast to most Christmas songs, which state that Christmas is the most delightful time of the year, in “The Anti-Christmas Carol” Stone states that she is happy that Christmas only occurs once a year, because of all the stress she experienced during her family dinner.
- Stone performed a duet with Yolanda Adams on Adams’s 1991 song “Just a Prayer Away” in honour of film director Tyler Perry at the 2009 BET Honors, held at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. on 17 January.
- Stone appeared on American Idol on 26 March 2009 singing a duet with Motown artist Smokey Robinson entitled “You’re the One for Me”, from his upcoming album Time Flies When You’re Having Fun.
- Colour Me Free was finally released on 20 October 2009, as EMI delayed the album’s release. When she appeared on Chelsea Lately, Joss revealed that her record company also fought her about the original cover of her new album, calling it “offensive”. It was changed to simple text and no picture of the singer on the American edition, the original cover was used on the other editions worldwide.
- The album was ‘re-released’ in America in April 2010, this time with the original cover, two new tracks and it was also made available to other retailers than iTunes and Target.
- In 2009, Stone, along with Buick Audra, recorded a version of the 1920s gospel children’s song “This Little Light of Mine” for the EMI Gospel/Vector Recordings compilation album Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration.
- In 2010, Stone appeared on Ringo Starr’s album, “Y Not” on the song “Who’s Your Daddy” in which she sang and co-wrote with the ex-Beatle. In 2010, Stone appeared on Jeff Beck’s album, “Emotion and Commotion” on the songs “I Put A Spell On You” and “There’s No Other Me”.
- In the mid of 2010 it was revealed that she was chosen to be a James Bond girl in the video game James Bond: Blood Stone. She also write the new theme of the game titled “I’ll take it all”.
- Stone made her television debut portraying Henry VIII’s fourth wife Anne of Cleves in the third season of Showtime’s series The Tudors, Owing to her surprise popularity with the shows fanbase, she reprised the role in the show’s final season in 2010. appearing in two episodes.
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