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Simonne Jones (Born in Hollywood, California) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, model, scientist and visual artist.

Her work reflects her scientific background, graduating from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County with an honors degree in Visual Arts and Biomedical Research with minors in Art History and Biological Sciences. She co-authored a paper on in Science Magazine entitled NMR Detection of Structures in the HIV-1 5′-Leader RNA That Regulate Genome Packaging. Also a humanitarian, Jones traveled to Ghana on a research grant for an HIV/AIDS awareness program she created.

Simonne worked and toured with the performing artist Peaches after creating a 4 meter vagina art piece for her rock opera at the HAU Theater in Berlin, Germany. She wrote the song Free Pussy Riot with Peaches in support of the russian performance artists in Pussy Riot who were imprisoned for protesting in a Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow.

Simonne builds instruments and constructed a customized electronic drum guitar, midi loop system, and motion detecting-musical, LED paintings for a solo art exhibition at Platoon Kunsthalle in Berlin. In 2013 she was accepted into the Redbull Music Academy in New York between collaborative performances with the ORSO philharmonic orchestra in Germany.

In 2014 she composed the music and plays the character Death in the play Everyman by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in collaboration with the Thalia Theater in Hamburg for the Salzburg Festival and the Grand Theater Tianjin in China. She researched the indigenous Guarani tribe in the Brazilian jungle for Zoolook 2014 a Jean Michel Jarre documentary.

She has been described as catalyzing curiosity in a limitless universe: integrating research, humanitarian work, engineering and science. Acknowledged as a songwriter-activist by Rolling Stone Magazine and the New York Times. She is currently based in Berlin.