The 1977 Grace Jones album that included disco covers of “La Vie en rose” and “Tomorrow” was Portfolio.
Released by Island Records on September 6, 1977, it was Jones’s debut studio album and her first major statement as a recording artist. The record was produced by Tom Moulton, a pioneering disco remixer, and recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, a key center of the era’s soul and disco production.
The original album’s first side is a continuous medley of songs from Broadway musicals: “Send in the Clowns,” “What I Did for Love,” and “Tomorrow,” from Annie. The second side opens with Jones’s dramatic interpretation of Édith Piaf’s “La Vie en rose,” followed by newer material such as “I Need a Man.”
The title can be confused with Jones’s later albums Fame, Muse, and Warm Leatherette. Those records belong to different stages of her career: Portfolio captures her late-1970s disco period, before her more experimental, new-wave-influenced work of the early 1980s.