Singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones  performs at the Santa Monica Pier during the 26th Annual Twilight Dance Series on Thursday, August 5,  2010.

Rickie Lee Jones is one of the most singular artists in today’s music world. A clue to defining her iconoclasm comes from her own family description as "lower-middle-class-hillbilly-hipster." From her emergence on the national scene in 1979, Rickie Lee has become one of the most acclaimed and talented singer-songwriters of our time spanning many genres: folk, rock, jazz, soul, spoken word and pop.

Her first self-titled album launched her career and received five Grammy nominations. Her nominations included Best Song, for "Last Chance Texaco," Best Album, Best Pop Vocal and Best Rock Vocal. As it happened, she won Best New Artist, and her career was launched. Just four months after her debut, Rickie Lee graced the cover of Rolling Stone, and again only 18 months later.

Her most recent releases are THE SERMON ON EXPOSITION BOULEVARD (2007), on which Rickie Lee and her collaborators have put Christ's words into a modern-day context, portraying those words in a way that anyone can understand and her newest Balm in Gilead.

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