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Sharon Jones Dies After Cancer Battle
A big-voiced soul singer who performed with high energy onstage has died in New York after battling pancreatic cancer. Sharon Jones was 60.
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DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, Mich.
Her representative Judy Miller Silverman says she died Friday at a Cooperstown hospital surrounded by her band, the Dap-Kings. Silverman says in a statement, “Thank you for your prayers and thoughts during this difficult time.”
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!