Big-Voiced Dap-Kings Soul Singer Sharon Jones Dies At 60
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A big-voiced soul singer who performed with high energy onstage has died in New York after battling pancreatic cancer. Sharon Jones was 60.
Jones was diagnosed with Stage 2 pancreatic cancer in 2013.
Her story was told this year in a Barbara Kopple documentary called "Miss Sharon Jones!" The film documents her transformation into a cancer patient and back into a full-throated force.
Jones returned to the music scene with a 2014 Grammy Award nomination for her album "Give the People What They Want" and an album of holiday classics called "It's A Holiday Soul Party!"
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