Nicole Slack Jones

New Orleans-born singer-songwriter Nicole Slack Jones has an incredible and unmatched voice. Relative of legendary Fats Domino, NSJ mastered her musical skills in the Pentecostal church (Church Of God In Christ). Gospel music follows her almost daily and secular music has no place in the religious culture perpetrated by this southern United States family. The one who venerates Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Deborah Cox will tell you with humor how she proceeded, as a child, to listen to her idols secretly. After graduating she released her first self-produced album, reinterpreting the greatest standards of soul and gospel. Her talent for interpretation takes her around the world via nearly 700 performances, either as a main artist or in collaboration with other singers such as Aloe Blacc, Zucchero, Percy Sledge and Lionel Richie. The last discussions at the bedside of her father before he passed away act on her like an electric shock: it is time for her to free herself from the religious yoke and create her own repertoire of songs at her image: passionate, eclectic, flamboyant, sometimes a bit dramatic, often emotional and above all radiant. From power-ballads to tracks dedicated to dancefloors, NSJ brings us back, in a contemporary way, to this time when the icons of Motown were ceaselessly reinventing themselves and always with talent, to this era when the divas were enthroned at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and electrified gay clubs with remixes.