Miami Herald -
26 Aug 2016 12:00
She's 60 years old, under 5 feet tall, a bit rotund and a soul-singing sister through and through. When she first appeared onstage, music industry mavens told Sharon Jones, the voice of the funk/rhythm and blues supergroup Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, that she was "too short, too black, too fat and too old," to make it. They failed to see that she was a born performer too talented to be marginalized and too feisty, energetic and stubborn to quit. …
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