Grace Jones never performs if it is not first paid

“Sometimes you have to be a bitch that flies high,” he said Grace Jones. It might seem the phrase of a haughty person full of himself (and perhaps it is), but to move in the music business you will learn soon that it is better not to be too scrupulous.

Once it happened that the LG was hired Grace Jones To play one of their corporate events, but Jones has a rule: he never performs if he is not paid in advance. The musician from the Natali Jamaicans recalled this strange episode in his biography entitled ‘I’m Never Write My Memoirs’explaining how the LG team has implored her for a long time, promising her payment for the following week, but that she has remained firmly on her positions. “I won’t move until they pay me, I won’t even leave the hotel and I won’t go on the spot, because once you arrive there is too much pressure. We said to them: ‘Okay, give us all your jewels and watches, your Rolex, like a deposit. We will keep them in the safe until I will be paid’.

In their growing desperation they came to suggest something completely absurd: “In the end, after a couple of hours in which I didn’t move and everyone tried to find a solution, they call by proposing a deposit for the weekend until they manage to have the money on Monday. They say: ‘We have an employee who has a child and is willing to offer him as a guarantee. We have a child! You can keep him until we bring the money. All I did not take the child.