Joss Stone is an English soul singer-songwriter and actress. Stone emerged to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the equally multiplatinum Mind Body & Soul, topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit "You Had Me", Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. Both album and single each received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist, and in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2004 was ranked 5th as a predicted breakthrough act of 2004.
She became the youngest British female singer to top the UK Albums Chart in history to have her first album at number one. Stone's third album, Introducing Joss Stone, released in March 2007, achieved gold record status by the RIAA and yielded the second-ever highest debut for a British female solo artist on the Billboard 200. Stone released her fourth album, Colour Me Free!, on 20 October 2009, which did reach Top 10 on Billboard, but was her least selling album in her career.
Throughout her career, Stone has sold over 11 million albums worldwide. Her first three albums have sold over 2,722,000 copies in the United States, while her first 2 albums have sold over 2,000,000 copies in UK. Stone has won 2 BRIT Awards and one Grammy Award. She also made her film acting debut in late 2006 with the fantasy adventure film Eragon, and made her tv debut portraying Anne of Cleves in the Showtime series The Tudors in 2009.
In 2004, Stone began dating Beau Dozier, with whom she co-wrote the song "Spoiled". Dozier is the son of Motown producer Lamont Dozier, who is best known as part of Holland-Dozier-Holland. She moved from her native England into Dozier's villa in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Encino the following year. The 2 split up in November 2005.
Stone was the youngest woman on the 2006 Sunday Times Rich List—an annual list of the UK's wealthiest people—with £6 million, and was also ranked number seventy-eight on Maxim's 2007 Hot 100.
Joss Stone is a friend of HRH Prince William of Wales and she was invited to his wedding with Catherine Middleton on 29th April 2011.
On Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, she was the intended subject of a possible planned, but thwarted murder/kidnap/robbery attempt, after police arrested two males in East Devon, England.
Throughout her career, Stone has sold over 11 million albums worldwide. Her first three albums have sold over 2,722,000 copies in the United States, while her first 2 albums have sold over 2,000,000 copies in UK. Stone has won 2 BRIT Awards and one Grammy Award. She also made her film acting debut in late 2006 with the fantasy adventure film Eragon, and made her tv debut portraying Anne of Cleves in the Showtime series The Tudors in 2009.
In 2004, Stone began dating Beau Dozier, with whom she co-wrote the song "Spoiled". Dozier is the son of Motown producer Lamont Dozier, who is best known as part of Holland-Dozier-Holland. She moved from her native England into Dozier's villa in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Encino the following year. The 2 split up in November 2005.
Stone was the youngest woman on the 2006 Sunday Times Rich List—an annual list of the UK's wealthiest people—with £6 million, and was also ranked number seventy-eight on Maxim's 2007 Hot 100.
Joss Stone is a friend of HRH Prince William of Wales and she was invited to his wedding with Catherine Middleton on 29th April 2011.
On Tuesday, June 14th, 2011, she was the intended subject of a possible planned, but thwarted murder/kidnap/robbery attempt, after police arrested two males in East Devon, England.
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