Mindy Jones

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Mindy Jones
Photograph of Mindy Jones at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday May 11th, 2016 by Justin Higuchi.png
Background information
Birth nameMelinda Antoinette Gaspar
Born (1980-08-19) August 19, 1980 (age 43)
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • musician
  • producer
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • piano
  • viola
  • percussion
Years active2000–present
Website www.mindianajones.com

Mindy Jones is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California and is currently the lead singer for recording artist Moby. Her collaborations with him include co-writing the track "The Waste of Suns" on the album Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt , a cover of "The Big Dream" by American director David Lynch for the album Innocents , a live version of "Go" at a benefit concert for the David Lynch foundation, [1] and his last two albums, played during his most recent tour at the Fonda and Ace theatres in downtown Los Angeles. [2]

She is currently working on a new project called ADLT VDEO with Luke Top of Fool's Gold. [3]

In addition to Blindspot, her songs have also been featured in Pretty Little Liars , Hot Girls Wanted , Hemlock Grove , Timeless , Stitchers , the Super Bowl commercial for Independence Day: Resurgence , Scream and many more.

In 2021, she covered Bjarke Niemann's "Champions of the Wild Side" [4] for the launch trailer of Hitman 3 . [5] The same year, she sang the cover of David Bowie's Heroes on Moby's album Reprise, released by Deutsche Grammophon.

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