New Orleans-born singer-songwriter Nicole Slack Jones has an incredible and unmatched voice. If you feel saying that is presumptuous, take a listen and you will see: it’s a fact.
Relative of legendary Fats Domino, daughter of gospel saxophonist Philip Slack Senior and church choir director Judy Slack, Nicole Slack Jones 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.
As much as breathing, singing is a necessity for Nicole who becomes a sensation throughout her community, first at school, then on local stages (New Orleans lazz & Heritage Festival). Barely graduated, 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, Tony Renis, Corky Hale, Stevie Wonder, and Lionel Richie.
Singer and actress in the film “The Fighting Temptations” with Beyonce Knowles and Cuba Gooding Jr., Nicole Slack Jones also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) playing her own role as a student at her Alma Mater John McDonogh Sr. High School, in the “Blackboard Wars” series.
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, Nicole Slack Jones 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 all gay clubs with their amazing voice and a series of remixes that became classics.
