Rickie Lee Jones has always been of a class of her own, asserting since the end of the 70s a fascinating, complex and disconcerting personality, whose originality is due as much to her unique voice as to her so personal compositions.
This Chicago native truly explored the entire spectrum of contemporary popular music, from Folk to Blues with a step in Hip-Hop, and more recently in Rhythm n' Blues. She lingered on Jazz a great deal, as well as devoting a cult to the Great American Songbook repertoire as to some of its most emblematic crooners -like Frank Sinatra, for example..

Rebellious to the nice well-bred American girl’s manners, and to established order and good manners as well -in short, a rebel to everything-, young Jones (who came from her own admission from the so-called "lower classes"), learned life in the street –and the tough way. She soon proved to be an expert in the art of running away, not afraid to face the perils of hitchhiking and vagrancy to escape an existence that she considered mundane and dull. She traced her route across the country and landed in Los Angeles. There, the odd jobs of waitress in Venice's bars and night-clubs in the Seventies’ second part made her cross musician Tom Waits’ way, among others -a fundamental meeting, if there was any.
Rickie Lee Jones shared the bluesy, sentimental, disillusioned and raucous-voiced male singer’s life for a while, until when fate eventually separated them in pain.
An aching breakup at the origin of Rickie Lee Jones' most beautiful opus, the 1981 Pirates album.

This decisive meeting opened to the runaway girl smoky clubs’ doors, where the young artist eventually performed her own compositions. Quickly noticed and signed by Warner Bros, Jones released then her first record, which some still consider today to be her best one, soberly titled Rickie Lee Jones.
A dazzling collection of titles, each more incendiary and bewitching than the next, Rickie Lee Jones propelled the young defector from Chicago and the city of Olympia (her adolescence’s home town) to the pinnacle of glory.