Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.
She's 28!
Jones' 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, including the "Grammy Award for Best New Artist". Her second album, Feels like Home, was released in 2004, clocking more than a million sales in the first week. In 2007, she released her third album; Not Too Late debuted at #1 on the charts.
Jones was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar in New York City, New York, 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 Dallas suburb of Grapevine, Texas, when Jones was four. She has always liked the music of Bill Evans and Billie Holiday among others from the 'oldies' section and considers Willie Nelson her idol. She has been quoted as saying, "My mom had this eight-album Billie Holiday set, I picked out one disc that I liked and played that over and over again."
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 Awards 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. 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.
A Bit of Trivia:
R.A. The Rugged Man mentions Norah on his track "Lessons", the lyrics are "I knew this chick named Norah a lounge singer, A year later she a six Grammy award winner"
A Bit of Music [I Love this woman]:
Other March 30th Birthdays:
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Eric Clapton-Singer -62
Paul Reiser-Actor -50
Celine Dion-Singer -39
Matt Doran-Actor -31
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