Joss StoneJoss Stone (born Joscelyn Eve Stoker on April 11, 1987) is an English soul singer. She is also the head spokeswoman for Gap, replacing Sarah Jessica Parker. She is known for performing barefoot. BiographyJoss Stone was born in Dover, Kent, England in 1987 and spent her teenage years in Devon. She grew up listening to American R&B and soul music performed by such artists as Aretha Franklin; as a result, she developed a throaty style of singing like her idols. At 14, she appeared on Star for a Night on BBC Television singing Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman". She told MTV News, "I kind of clicked into soul music more than anything else because of the vocals. You've got to have good vocals to sing soul music and I always liked it ever since I was little." In 2002, she decided to back her ability by flying out from England for an audition in New York City with S-Curve CEO Steve Greenberg. The Soul SessionsShe then flew to Miami to start work on her debut album, The Soul Sessions. She collaborated with people with solid credentials in the Miami soul scene such as Betty Wright, Benny Latimore, Timmy Thomas and Little Beaver. She also worked with contemporary acts Angie Stone and The Roots. The album consists of classic soul tracks by Wright, Franklin, Laura Lee and Bettye Swann. Released in late 2003, it reached the top 5 in the UK albums chart, and also made the top forty of the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart. The lead single, "Fell in Love with a Boy", which was a reworking of The White Stripes' song "Fell in Love with a Girl", reached the top twenty of the UK singles chart. The second single, "Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin' On Me?)", also reached the top twenty. Joss was already working on an R&B debut album when the Soul Sessions were recorded. Much of this R&B album was scrapped following the success of the Soul Sessions, which remains by far her biggest selling album, even though it was recorded with the same criteria and in the same amount of time as most studio demos. Mind, Body & SoulAfter achieving critical acclaim for The Soul Sessions, Stone recorded an album full of original songs in 2004 titled Mind, Body & Soul. It proved to be an even bigger success than her first album, as it debuted at #1 in the UK (breaking the record for the youngest female ever to top the albums charts there, a record previously held by Avril Lavigne) and just missed the top ten of the U.S. Billboard 200, after peaking at #11. The lead single, "You Had Me", became her first top ten in the UK. Follow-up singles "Right to Be Wrong" and "Spoiled" both made the top forty, and "Don't Cha Wanna Ride?" the top twenty. In February 2005, Stone was nominated for three Brit Awards, of which she won two; Best Female and Best Urban Act. She was also nominated three times at the 2005 Grammy Awards, where she sang barefoot on stage with rock legend Melissa Etheridge. Their performance of "Cry Baby"/"Piece of My Heart" was released as a single, and, through aid of strong digital downloads, became Stone's first top forty U.S. hit when it debuted at #32 (where it ultimately would peak) on the Billboard Hot 100. In July 2005, Joss performed at the London Live 8 concert, and did a duet with James Brown on UK chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. On February 5, 2006, she joined John Legend and Stevie Wonder at the Super Bowl XL pre-game show in performing a medley of Wonder's hits. DiscographyStudio albums
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Their performance of "Cry Baby"/"Piece of My Heart" was released as a single, and, through aid of strong digital downloads, became Stone's first top forty U.S. Thus conjunctions are believed to operate with a larger orb than sextiles. She was also nominated three times at the 2005 Grammy Awards, where she sang barefoot on stage with rock legend Melissa Etheridge. Understandably these aspects are more significant when they are exact, but they are considered to function within an orb of influence, the size of which varies according to the importance of each aspect. In February 2005, Stone was nominated for three Brit Awards, of which she won two; Best Female and Best Urban Act. Those generally recognized by the astrological community are Conjunction (0º), Opposition (180º), Square (90º), Trine (120º), Sextile (60º), Semi-Square (45º), Sesqisquare (135º), and Quincunx (150º). Follow-up singles "Right to Be Wrong" and "Spoiled" both made the top forty, and "Don't Cha Wanna Ride?" the top twenty. Certain aspects are considered more important than others. The lead single, "You Had Me", became her first top ten in the UK. To complete the horoscope the astrologer will consider the aspects or relative angles between pairs of planets. Billboard 200, after peaking at #11. Many astrologers also use what are commonly referred to as Arabic Parts (or Greek Lots), the most famous of which is the Part of Fortune (Pars Fortuna). It proved to be an even bigger success than her first album, as it debuted at #1 in the UK (breaking the record for the youngest female ever to top the albums charts there, a record previously held by Avril Lavigne) and just missed the top ten of the U.S. Some astrologers also take note of minor planetary bodies, fixed stars, asteroids (for example, Chiron) and other mathematically calculated points and angles such as the Ascendant (ASC), the MC, the DC, and the IC, the Vertex, Equatorial Ascendant, etc. After achieving critical acclaim for The Soul Sessions, Stone recorded an album full of original songs in 2004 titled Mind, Body & Soul. Having established the relative positions of the signs in the houses, the horoscopist positions the sun, moon and planets at their rightful celestial longitudes. Much of this R&B album was scrapped following the success of the Soul Sessions, which remains by far her biggest selling album, even though it was recorded with the same criteria and in the same amount of time as most studio demos. Adjustments are therefore made for the difference in one's actual longitude and the longitude of the nominal meridian associated with clock time. Joss was already working on an R&B debut album when the Soul Sessions were recorded. Time zone boundaries were also the subject of political manipulation in the Pacific islands when they sought to be the first places on earth to see the new millennium. The second single, "Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin' On Me?)", also reached the top twenty. It would not be practical for a time zone boundary to cut through the middle of a town or small country. The lead single, "Fell in Love with a Boy", which was a reworking of The White Stripes' song "Fell in Love with a Girl", reached the top twenty of the UK singles chart. For political reasons the time zones cannot all be the same size. Billboard 200 album chart. In reality there is an hour's difference between points at the beginning and end of a 15º average time zone. Released in late 2003, it reached the top 5 in the UK albums chart, and also made the top forty of the U.S. This permitted train schedules to be written based on the certainty that any two places in a time zone used the same time. The album consists of classic soul tracks by Wright, Franklin, Laura Lee and Bettye Swann. Time zones were developed in the 19th century as a by-product of the development of railways. She also worked with contemporary acts Angie Stone and The Roots. This is because charts use Local Time. She collaborated with people with solid credentials in the Miami soul scene such as Betty Wright, Benny Latimore, Timmy Thomas and Little Beaver. Longitude is also necessary in order to determine the position of the ascendant. She then flew to Miami to start work on her debut album, The Soul Sessions. The most commonly used is the Placidus house system, though most research Astrologers find that the Koch domification system gets best results. In 2002, she decided to back her ability by flying out from England for an audition in New York City with S-Curve CEO Steve Greenberg. Most computer programs allow the user to choose from a variety of house systems. You've got to have good vocals to sing soul music and I always liked it ever since I was little.". Tables are available for these calculations, but they are now normally calculated by computer. She told MTV News, "I kind of clicked into soul music more than anything else because of the vocals. For these calculations it is essential to know the latitude of the event. At 14, she appeared on Star for a Night on BBC Television singing Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman". In house systems that take into consideration the effects of the angle of intersection between the planes of the horizon and the ecliptic, the calculations are more complicated. She grew up listening to American R&B and soul music performed by such artists as Aretha Franklin; as a result, she developed a throaty style of singing like her idols. Thus for a native whose ascendant is at 12º of Leo, the second house will begin at 12º of Virgo, the third at 12º Libra, and so on. Joss Stone was born in Dover, Kent, England in 1987 and spent her teenage years in Devon. In an equal house system the cusp between any two houses will fall at the same degree for each of the signs. . Upon this the signs of the zodiac are superimposed. She is known for performing barefoot. The chart thus begins with a framework of 12 houses. She is also the head spokeswoman for Gap, replacing Sarah Jessica Parker. The techniques described here belong to western astrology. Joss Stone (born Joscelyn Eve Stoker on April 11, 1987) is an English soul singer. In order to understand and visualize the spherical geometry of the construction of a horoscope, we need to begin with some basic terms. 2005: "Cry Baby"/"Piece of My Heart" (with Melissa Etheridge) #32 U.S. From there, it started spreading all the way across to Western Europe, where it was almost considered a science itself by all learned people. Misc.
2004: "Right To Be Wrong" #29 UK. A definition of a horoscope is: the illustration of the position of the sun, moon, planets and stars from a given location on earth, usually at birth. 2004: "You Had Me" #9 UK, #6 Portugal. Most astrologers regard those as nearly worthless, since a horoscope is actually highly personalized, and cannot be generalized to thousands of readers just through the position of the Sun at the time of birth. Mind, Body & Soul
2004: "Fell in Love with a Boy" #18 UK. Different systems of tri-secting arcs produce houses of different size. The Soul Sessions
Certification: Gold). This diagram, called a chart, is a stylized map of the heavens. 2003: The Soul Sessions #4 UK, #39 U.S., (U.S. Using an ephemeris and a table of houses an astrologer calculates the geocentric positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets for a specific time and place in order to erect a formatted horoscope. horoskopoi,or "marker(s) of the hour."] Other commonly used names for the horoscope in English include natal chart, natus, birth chart, astrological chart, astro-chart, celestial map, sky-map, nativity, star-chart, cosmogram, Vitasphere, soulprint, radical chart, radix, or simply chart, among others. The term horoscope is derived from Greek words meaning, "a look at the hours" [horoskopos, pl. In astrology, a horoscope is a chart or diagram representing the positions of the planets, other celestial bodies, and sensitive angles at the time of any event, such as a person's birth. For some the cusp includes a small portion of the two signs or houses under consideration. A cusp is the boundary between two signs or houses. Tropical Astrologers use Zodiac Signs rather than arbitrary constellations. Sidereal Astrologers use constellations, though there's no validating research for this preference. Precession of the equinox is roughly 5 minutes of a degree every 6 years. Because of a "wobble" in the earth's axis of rotation over a period of about 26,000 years the point at which the vernal equinox advances in the sky rate is 0 deg, 0 min, 50.23 secs a year. Many students confuse the difference between Sidereal Constellations and Zodiac Signs. Most Western Astrologers use the Tropical Zodiac in which the astrological year begins with the vernal equinox, when the sun crosses the celestial equator and enters the zodiac sign of Aries. The signs and planets all move through the twelve houses during the course of a day, and the planets move through the signs over the course of months or years. The positions of these houses remains fixed relative to the native. The first six are therefore below the horizon, and the other six are above. The first house begins at the ascendant and the others are numbered counterclockwise from that point. In the case of the Equal House System the ecliptic is divided into twelve equal houses of 30º each. Similarly, explanations in this article based on the Equal House System are not meant to give any theoretical preference to that system; it is simply the system whose geometry is easiest to understand. The use of a particular system of house division is often more a result of what calculations are available than of any conscious consideration of one system's merits over that of another. Just as this article does not seek to discuss the validity of astrology, it is also beyond its scope to attempt to resolve questions which may be disputed among astrologers. Astrologers have devised at least nine different ways of calculating these house divisions. The houses are a series of twelve divisions of the plane of the ecliptic. If an event occurs at sunrise the ascendant and sun sign will be the same; other rising signs can then be estimated at approximately two hour intervals from there. This is the single astrological fact most familiar to people. The sun sign is the sign of the zodiac in which the sun is located for the native. This provides us with the term rising sign, which is the sign of the zodiac on the native's ascendant. During the course of a day, because of the earth's rotation, the entire circle of the ecliptic will pass through the ascendant and will be advanced by about 1º. In draughting a horoscope the ascendant is traditionally placed as the left-hand side point of the chart. Its opposite point in the west is the descendant. The ascendant is the eastern point where the ecliptic and horizon intersect. For events occurring where the planes of the eccliptic and the horizon coincide the limiting position for these points is at 90º from the ascendant. The medium coeli or mid-heaven is the point on the ecliptic that is furthest above the plane of the horizon; its opposite point is known as the imum coeli. It is approximately 18º wide. It is centered on the ecliptic, and its width is sufficient to allow for the fact that the orbits of the moon and all other planets are not parallel to the plane of the ecliptic. The zodiac refers to a band on the celestial sphere containing the signs. The axis of the plane of the horizon has end points above, the zenith, and below, the nadir. Some writers on astrology have considered the effects of parallax, but most would agree that (apart from that of the Moon) they are relatively minor, and are beyond the scope of this article. This greatly simplifies understanding the geometry of the horoscope. In a sphere whose radius is infinitely large this plane may be treated as nearly equivalent to the parallel plane with its centre at the earth's center. The plane of the horizon is centred on the native, and is tangential to the earth at that point. For practical purposes the plane of the equator and the plane of the ecliptic maintain a constant inclination to each other of approximately 23.5°. The plane of the ecliptic is defined by the orbits of the earth and the sun. The plane of the equator is the plane of the earth's equator projected into space. The celestial sphere is a sphere of arbitrary radius upon which the items appearing on the horoscope are projected without regard to their distance from the native. This term is a general one that includes not only birth times as they are commonly understood, but any event for which a horoscope may be drawn. The native refers to the time and place of the event being charted, and considered to be at the centre of the celestial sphere. |