Soul Singer Joss Stone Speaks About Race, Style and Music

With the release of her debut album, The Soul Sessions, 16 year-old Joss Stone sat down and spoke with Numb Magazine recently in Toronto to discuss her views on soul, style and race.

(PRWEB) February 23, 2004 --Ive come across a lot of race issues because Im white, which was a real big shock to me," says Stone. I think the whole idea about music is that it has no colour. Thats what Ive been saying and I wish people would just get it."

The long-anticipated S-Curve Records release consists of ten tracks, none of which are her own songs. Instead, it was decided that she would release cover songs, mostly of lesser-known Miami seventies soul tunes.

Unlike most artists making urban music these days, this blonde-haired beauty doesnt have any interest in parading around on your TV screen. They want me to do a video for 'Fell in Love with a Boy, [White Stripes cover] but I dont really want to do it. Im not an actress. Im a singer," she says, I dont know how to be anything else. I will learn though. I have to learn, whether I want to or not. Its not really because Im worried about the cameras, because thats kind of selfish. I just dont think music should be about image, and I think videos make it about image."

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