Posted December 27, 200717 yr Back in the mid-1960s, a bastion of boy bands set sail from their native Britain for American shores. With quirky names like The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and The Who, these floppy-haired musicians quickly conquered American pop charts. Almost 50 years later, a second "British Invasion" is under way, led by women including Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse and a feisty singer-songwriter named Joss Stone. Born Joscelyn Stoker and raised in countryside England, Stone said her hometown was just four hours from London, but seemed a world away. "You know those 'Pride and Prejudice' movies (with) the big hedges and the horses and the fields? And there's like two houses for every two miles? That's what it's like," she told Carlos Watson for his program "Conversations with Carlos Watson." Stone got her big break in 2001 on the BBC television show "Star for a Night." A year later, she soon flew to the United States and, after signing with a record company, began work on her first album, "The Soul Sessions." Released in 2003, the album went triple platinum. A free-spirited person, Stone said that prefers to perform on-stage barefoot and admitted that she once fired her mom as her manager. "She was the best one, even though she had never done it before, because she cared about me," the singer-songwriter said of her mother. "She actually cared if my voice hurt. She cared if I was crying or if I was tired." But Stone added that it wasn't what she needed in a manager. "Now, that's lovely and everything but I don't want it to be like that. I don't like it," she said. "If I call my mom and I ask for help, she's there because she's my mom." Earlier this year, Stone released her third album, "Introducing Joss Stone," and spent much of the year touring in support of the album. Source: http://www.4029tv.com/entertainment/14730214/detail.html
