Natural inside Chicago, she grew up inside the fractured & dysfunctional family setting. As a teenager, Jones became included in the summertime of '69 hippy scene within California, & ran out of residence. She settled down within Los Angeles where she waited tables and played at local clubs. The 1979 contract with Warner Brothers resulted in her number one, eponymously-titled album. Commercially & critically easily-received, it involved the hit lone, "Chuck E's in Love", & won her a Best New Artist Grammy award along with 5 more nominations.

Her career was a foremost launched with success by streaming, & she was one of a single artists - whenever non a single - ever featured twice around both years (1979-1980) on the handle of the illustrious Rolling Stone magazine. Since her debut, Rickie hwhen freed many albums, none when successful as the 1st, though she won a second Grammy (& deuce more nominations) for a handle of "Makin' Whoopie" with Dr. John. The Orb sampled her voice for "Little Fluffy Clouds" in the recording phenomenon that initiated what eventually became ambient house music.

Rickie has a single girl from either her marriage by having French musician Pascal Nabet Meyer.

She is organizer of the web community, "Furniture for the People", which is taking part around horticulture, social activism, contrab& exchange and left wing politics. She hosts the hebdomadally talk radio in KAOS (Evergreen State College radio) in Olympia, Washington. She has produced (including Leo Kottke's Peculiaroso), and provided the voiceover for the 1980s cartoon version of Pinocchio, in which she played a Blue Fairy.

Discography

Rickie Lee Jones - (1979) Pirates - (1981) Girl at Her Volcano (EP) - (1983) A Magazine - (1984) Flying Cowboys - (1989) Pop Pop - (1991) Traffic From either Paradise - (1993) Naked Songs - (1995) Ghostyhead - (1997) ''It's Rather This - (2000) Survive at Red Rocks - (2001) A Evening of Our Better Day (2003) Rickie Lee Jones: Duchess of Coolsville (2005) - 3-disc anthology due June 28

Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="4"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

|US Hot 100 |US Modern Rock |US Mainstream Rock |UK |- | 1989 | "Satellites" | - | #23 | - | - | Flying Cowboys'' |}

Trivia

Her hit only "Chuck E's in Love" is all about fellow musician Chuck E. Weiss, whom she lived alongside at the Tropicana Hotel in the early 1970s. She was inside the romanticist relationship sustaining Weiss' friend Tom Waits around the equivalent instance.