Rickie Lee Jones

One record was enough for him to become an icon of his century. Initially inspired by the shadow of the great Tom Waits, his rider for a time, Rickie Lee Jones took off to build a career of rare longevity. Committed and sublime, she is magical: the same can be said of her songs.

She is the face of a flayed America that is torn to shreds as the war-ravaged Oval Office is torn to shreds. Yes, Rickie Lee Jones is a rebel who gets wet with her dry guitar and youthful voice. The Duchess of Coolsville, as Time journalists like to call her, drowns love in bitterness, and vice versa. She brings colour to folk, revisits New Orleans jazz standards and narrates her healthy anger.

They are all musically in love with her: Bob Dylan and Ben Harper first. It must be said that this tall blonde lady knows how to use her charm to defend her vision of the world. She grows up to the rhythm of her desires, her whims and her encounters, to get a little closer to her lifelong idols: Nina Simone, Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra. In search of freedom and adventure, Rickie Lee Jones, star since her first album, wants to be a great traveller and a tender rebel. So she plays a series of cool and bluesy ballads to bear witness to what she sees around her every day.

Her voice makes music lovers fall in love with her. Here, no superfluous. All she needs is an open microphone and a few strings to convey what's in her heart. Because from her decades of life, she has inherited a maturity that gives her fragile slowness, her bursts of mood and her fiery panache, her shadow of absolute elegance. Rickie Lee Jones, an atypical personality of an era, still has beautiful things to whisper to us.