Grace Jones does not simply return, she arrives.

A presence outside of time, a boundary-breaker, a cultural disruptor whose audacious artistry has transformed music, fashion, performance and identity across generations. This February and March, the icon lands in Australia for a run of rare, spellbinding headline shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, before closing with a monumental performance at WOMADelaide.

Grace Jones has always existed in her own orbit. From the smoky, lawless clubs of ’70s New York to the sleek minimalism of Compass Point, she didn’t move between genres, she collapsed them. Disco bowed to post-punk; reggae fused with new wave; fashion merged with theatre; and the straight lines of pop culture bent beneath her will. Grace did not follow movements. She created them.

Her ascent was instant and irreversible. Crowned Disco’s Queen with attitude in the era of Studio 54, she carved out early classics like “I Need a Man” and her immortal rendition of “La Vie en rose.” But she refused to remain in any one shape. The ’80s saw her tear disco down to the studs and rebuild it, forging bold new hybrids of soul, reggae, funk, electronic experimentation and the icy sophistication that defined Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing and Living My Life. What emerged was not just an artist. It was an archetype.

Jones’ embrace of surreal costuming and radical self-presentation, amplified through her iconic creative partnership with Jean-Paul Goude, turned every stage appearance into a work of performance art. Grace Jones became the experience: defiant, glamorous, transgressive, sovereign.

Australia has not witnessed that presence since 2018, when she delivered a magnetic run across Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide that reaffirmed her status not as a legacy act, but as a living, evolving force. And now, in 2025, her arrival could not be more vital. In an age obsessed with recycling, imitation and algorithmic sameness, Grace Jones remains uncategorisable. A singular artist whose legacy is not frozen in the past but actively still shaping the present.

Expect the surreal glamour. Expect theatrical chaos, emotional depth, commanding presence and the sort of electricity only Grace Jones can conjure. This is a rare encounter with a legend who remains fearlessly, defiantly, extraordinarily immortal.