Rickie Lee Jones News

From the 1920s through the '70s, New York City gave rise to an explosion of musical styles: from bebop and Latin, to punk and disco.

Genre: Singer, songwriter and twotime Grammy Award-winner, Rickie Lee Jones has composed and performed folk, rock, jazz, soul, R&B, spoken word and pop.

Singer-songwriter and late 1970s rock 'n' roll icon Rickie Lee Jones bounced between the profound, the funny and the vague while responding, via e-mail, to interview questions recently submitted to her by the Journal in advance of her show this weekend in the city.

Rickie Lee Jones says she needs to sing like she needs to breathe. She learned her phrasing from her father, that slower-than-Sunday-morning delivery she made famous 30 years ago.

Once she hits the stage, Rickie Lee Jones is fearless. Forget about the manic depression, the heartbreaks, the growing old.

It's not even 9 a.m. in Los Angeles, and Rickie Lee Jones is already up and doing this phone interview.