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Norah Jones
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Norah Jones




Birthday name : Geethali Norah Jones Shankar
Born : March 30, 1979
Origin : New York Cinty, New York, USA
Genres : Folk, Soul, Jazz, Country and Pop
Occupations : Singer, Songwriter and Actoress
Instruments : Piano, Keyboard and Guitar
Year active : 2001

Born as Geethali Norah Jones Shankar in New Yourk, but later changed her name officially to Norah Jones, at the age of 16.
She is the daughter of the Indian Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and Sue Jones, and is the half-sister of musician Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar's daughter from his second marriage.

She spent her childhood with her mother, who moved to the Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, Texas, when Jones was four. She attended Colleyville Middle School her 8th grade year before transfering to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas. She admitted that her only formal singing training was at Colleyville Middle School (where she took choir) and at Booker T. Washington (where she took a choir class also).

Jones began singing in church choirs, taking piano lessons, and even briefly trying out the alto saxophone. She attended Interlochen arts camp,Grapevine high school, Booker T.Washington high school for the performing and visual arts in Dallas, Texas. While at high school, she won the Downbeat student music award for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996). She then attended the University of north Texas, where she majored in jazz piano and lived in the dormitory Bruce Hall. Classmates included American Idol finalist Brandon Rogers and Grammy nominated songwriter David Angerstein.

In 1999, two years into the program, Jones left for New York City. Since about that time she has been romantically involved with bassist Lee Alexander


Jones's career was launched with the massive success of her 2002 debut album Come aways with me, a contemporary pop album with a sensual, plaintive Soul/folk/Country tinge, that sold over twenty million copies worldwide and received six Grammy awards, with Jones winning "Best New Artist". Her second album, Feels like home, was released in 2004, clocking more than a million sales in the first week of U.S. release. In 2007, she released her third album, Not too late, which debuted at number one on the world charts. She has become one of the most successful recording artists of the decade, racking up sales of more than 39 million records worldwide.

Debut album: Come Away with Me

Her debut album, Come away with me , debuted in February 2002 and was instantly celebrated for its blending of mellow, acoustic pop with soul and country. It hit number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, with the single "Dont know why" hitting number one on the Top 40 adult Recurrents in 2003. It won Album of the year at the Grammy awards. She made a cameo appearance in the 2002 movie Two weeks Notice playing the piano and singing "Nearness of You" at the fundraiser. "Come Away With Me" has sold over 20 million copies.


Second album: Feels like Home


Her second album, Feels Like Home, was released on Febuary 9, 2004. Rather than repeat the softer, jazz mood of Come Away with Me, her second album was influenced by country music. Within a week of its release, Feels like Home had sold over a million copies, making it the highest-selling album in the history of Blue Note Records. Jones toured globally again, to promote the album with the Handsome Band, and the addition of backing singer Daru Oda. Time magazine included Jones on the Time 100, a list of the most influential people of 2004. "Feels Like Home" has sold over 14 million copies.

Third album: Not Too Late


Her third album, Not too late, was released by Blue Note Records on January 30, 2007. The album is Jones's first for which she wrote or co-wrote every song, and according to her, some of them are much darker than those on her previous albums. Not Too Late was mostly recorded at Jones's home studio and is the first album Jones recorded without producer Arif Mardin, who died in the summer of 2006. Jones described the sessions as "fun, relaxed and easy" and without a deadline; executives at Blue Note Records reportedly did not know they were recording an album. The song "My Dear Country" is a political satire; she wrote it before the United States Presidential election day in 2004.
Not Too Late reached the #1 position in twenty countries and reached #1 on the United World Chart with sales over 720,000 in its first week. It is the third best first week album sales of 2007 after Avril Lavinge's third album The Best Damn Thing and Linkin Park's third album Minutes To Midnight. The album became the 800th album to reach the top spot on the UK chart. It also reached #1 in theU.S with 405,000 copies sold. According to a press release from EMI, Not Too Late is certified gold or platinum in twenty-one countries as of February 2007.The album has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, according to media traffic.But with shipment it sold 4 million copies. The first single, "Thinking About You", became Jones's first single to chart on the U.S. Hot 100 since "Don't Know Why".
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ahh nice ... i like her music she is pretty decent
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:O really fantastic info ob N jons. i lyk her song. thanx.
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She is hawt that i know :P :P
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Indeed. I lyk her songs too. She really is good at singing. I never really was a Jazz lover yet I lyked her songs a lot. I wanted to listen to her songs only cuz she was Rabi Shankar's daughter but now she has her place.
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l loved 'sunrise' (from the 2nd album i think)
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yeah Sunrise if from the 2nd Album.
But Come away wit me was just Too Great.
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Never heard her songs before...now i will after reading all your comments
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im a big fan of her jemon sundor singer temon dekhteo sundor lolz thanks for the info dosto.
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yah ami koekta song dekhsi MTV te norah e Country songs valo gai thanks lil star BTW good idea thnx i will try to post about some of my fav
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