Profiling Sharon Jones, a hugely talented R&B singer who has spent decades chasing her breakthrough. This documentary follows Jones as she battles pancreatic cancer while working on a new album with her band, the Dap-Kings.
About the Event
Two-time Academy Award® winner Barbara Kopple shines a powerful, inspiring and entertaining spotlight on contemporary soul queen Sharon Jones. As she prepares to release her much-anticipated new album, Sharon comes face to-face with the greatest challenge of her life: a grave cancer diagnosis. Follow this tour de force over the course of an eventful and remarkable year as she struggles to hold her band The Dap-Kings together while battling her way back to the stage with the unstoppable determination of a true soul survivor.
This film is not rated.
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