BURSTSydney Opera House Forecourt
The 77-year-old is one of our greatest living performers, doing sit-ups, hula-hooping and even flashing the audience – but her rich voice is the true revelation
From her island life as a young girl in Spanish Town, Jamaica, to her art groupie days in New York City, to the towering androgyne Bond villain who could turn La Vie en Rose into a disco hit: Grace Jones is one of our greatest living performers – a disco legend and true party girl, with a penchant for fabulous hats.
With the Sydney Opera House forecourt her dancefloor and the Monumental Steps her nightclub balcony, the mad hatter claimed dominion of the night on Saturday – even though her concert happened to coincide with the 48th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and the first of two Bad Bunny stadium shows in Sydney Olympic Park.
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