Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones is one of those artists who never quite fit any box, and that's exactly why I love her. Her 1979 debut was a jaw-dropper — that beret, that beatnik cool, that voice that could curl around a lyric like smoke — and winning the Grammy for Best New Artist felt almost too mainstream for someone so genuinely weird and wonderful. She's navigated rock, jazz, R&B, and soul across five decades without ever sanding down her edges, and albums like Pirates still sound like nothing else in American music. VH1 putting her at number 30 on their greatest women in rock list feels both right and criminally low. She's an acquired taste for some, but once she gets into you, she really gets into you.

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Name (English)

Rickie Lee Jones

Name (Japanese)

リッキー・リー・ジョーンズ

Reading

りっきー・りー・じょーんず

Born

November 8, 1954 (age 71)

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

singer / songwriter / singer-songwriter / composer / jazz musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

High school

Olympia High School

Awards & achievements

• 1980 Grammy Award for Best New Artist

• Official sitehttps://www.rickieleejones.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/RickieLeeJones
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickie%20Lee%20Jones
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q258846

Tags

• Illinois
• singer
• songwriter
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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