Norah Jones Biography, Photos and Posters

Norah Jones

Biography

Born: March 30, 1979
City and Country of Origin: New York, NY
Music Training: church coirs; piano lessons; alto saxophone; Interlochen Arts Camp, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas; University of North Texas
Awards:
Top Recordings: "Don't Know Why"
Norah Jones Biography: Geethali Norah Jones Shankar's career was launched with her massively successful 2002 debut album Come Away with Me, a contemporary pop album with a sensual, plaintive soul/folk/country tinge, which sold over twenty million copies worldwide and received eight Grammy Awards. Norah was born in New York City, the daughter of Sue Jones and Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. She moved with her mother to Dallas, TX at the age of 4 and spent most of her childhood growing up in Texas.

Her music interest as a child centered around jazz pianist Bill Evans and Blues singer Billie Holiday. but considers Willie Nelson to be her idol. She attended Interlochen Arts Camp, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas. She won the DownBeat Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996). After 2 years at the University of North Texas she returned to her native New York to pursue her performing career.

While in New York she became a lounge singer, performing with numerous artists and bands like Wax Poetic and the Peter Malick Group. She frequently performed with guitarist Charlie Hunter in 2001 and appeared on Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album in a duet with André 3000 in 2003. Her easy sultry yet powerful style is often compared to that of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, but she is also known for her jazz piano. Jones appeared as a guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR, performing jazz standards such as "September in the Rain" and "I Can't Get Started," and later that year she appeared again with McPartland at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, performing more standards such as "Lover Man" and "Walking My Baby Back Home". She has performed at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in both 2004 and 2005.

Her debut album Come Away with Me was released in February 2002 and was immediately hailed for its blending of mellow, acoustic pop with soul and country. It went all the way to the top of the Billboard 200 charts and the single "Don't Know Why" hit number 1 on the top 40 Adult Recurrents. Her second album, Feels like Home, was more country than jazz and sold over a million copies the first week. She toured globally to promote the album. Her third album on Blue Note Records, on which she either wrote or co-wrote every song, hit the top of the charts in the UK. The album sold over 2 million copies.

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