Barbara Jones (singer)
Barbara Nation (c. 1952 – 19 December 2014), better known as Barbara Jones, was a Jamaican singer who had a UK hit single in 1981 with "Just When I Needed You Most".
Career
Born in Kingston and raised in Manchester, Jamaica, she began her career in 1971 with the single "Sad Movies". She had her greatest success in January 1981 with "Just When I Needed You Most", which reached number 31 on the UK Singles Chart.
She toured as backing singer with Jimmy Cliff in the late 1970s and early 1980s; In 1991, she became a devout Christian and gave up secular music to concentrate on gospel music.
After becoming ill in London, she was diagnosed with leukaemia in February 2014. She returned to reggae with performances in Brazil with Lloyd Parks. Her health deteriorated and she died in Kingston's University Hospital of the West Indies on 19 December 2014, from pneumonia contracted during chemotherapy treatments. She was 62 years old.
Jones was once described as "the Billie Holliday of reggae music".
Barbara Jones
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Barbara Jones (athlete)
Barbara Pearl Jones (later Slater, born March 26, 1937) is a retired American athlete, who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
She lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area.
Jones competed for the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland, where she won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 m relay with her teammates Mae Faggs, Janet Moreau and Catherine Hardy. Jones is the youngest female to win an Olympic gold medal in track & field at 15 years 123 days.
She missed the following Olympics, but returned in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the 4 x 100 meters, where she again won the gold medal with her teammates Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams and Olympic 100 and 200 meters champion Wilma Rudolph. She attended Tennessee State University.
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Barbara Jones (artist)
Barbara Mildred Jones (25 December 1912 – 28 August 1978) was an English artist, writer and mural painter.
Biography
Barbara Jones was born in Croydon, Surrey. She attended Coloma Convent Girls' School, and Croydon High School. Subsequently she attended Croydon School of Art before studying Mural Decoration at the Royal College of Art.
During World War II she was associated with the Recording Britain project of the Pilgrim Trust. Postwar, Jones created murals for the 1946 Britain Can Make It exhibition, the 1947 Enterprise Scotland exhibition, and for the 1951 Festival of Britain exhibition. She also worked for P&O, creating murals for the passenger liner ships SS Orcades, SS Oronsay, SS Orsova and SS Oriana, as well as for hotels, restaurants, exhibitions and schools.
Jones also worked on the children's television series The Woodentops. Most of the works, because of the nature of where they were created, have now disappeared. However many books containing her artwork remain, in the form of dust-jackets and illustrations.
