As Black History Month winds down, we continue our look at black music. Grace Jones is the most unique artist I think the world has produced so far. Her sound has always been contemporary even as her look is forward thinking. Indeed her look is as integral to her fame as her music, and her blend of extreme high fashion and extreme androgeny spawned imitators from Annie Lennox to Lady Gaga. Even at age 60, when she recorded her latest album Hurricane, she is exploring modern industrial sounds in dance. "Corporate Criminal," the lead single from that album, is one of the spookiest and captivating things I've heard in a while.
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