Sharon Jones, powerful soul singer with throwback style, dies at 60Sharon Jones, a powerful soul singer with throwback style has died at 60 from pancreatic cancer. NATALIE BEHRING I was too fat, too black, too short and too old: Sharon Jones on her late rise to fame. NZIntFilmFestival/YouTube Miss Sharon Jones! Jones was 46 when her debut album, "Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings," appeared. But when the long, rousing introduction reached the words, "Miss Sharon Jones!"

Source: Stuff November 20, 2016 00:33 UTC