Norah Jones
Date of
Birth: March 30, 1979
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Parents: Father-Ravi
Shankar, Mother-Sue Jones
Spouse/Significant Other: Lee Alexander
Ethnicity: ½ Indian
Official
Website: www.NorahJones.com
Norah grew up quietly with her mother in Texas. While
she always found the music of Billie Holiday and Bill Evans both intriguing and
comforting, she didn't really explore jazz until attending Dallas' Booker T.
Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. During high school,
Jones won the Down Beat Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist and Best
Original Composition in 1996, and earned a second Best Jazz Vocalist award in
1997. Putting music on the back burner, she went on to the University of
North Texas to work on earning a degree in jazz piano. She did this for
two years, and then took a friend up on an invite to visit in New York during
the summer, she never came back to Texas. The rest as they say is
history. Norah and her band recorded a 6 track album that was supposed to
just be a demo, but people loved it so much and now it's a collectors item, very
hard to find. Her "debut" album Come Away With Me is
phenomenal. I highly recommend it to all of you. If you go to her
website at NorahJones.com you can listen
to clips from the songs. I hope you enjoy this weeks honey and I hope that
you check out her music.
