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Norah Jones Information
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'Norah Jones' (born 'Geetali Norah Jones Shankar' on March 30 1979; she changed her name officially to Norah Jones at age 16) is an American multi-Grammy Award winning pianist and singer-songwriter whose career was launched with her successful 2002 debut album Come Away with Me, a contemporary pop album with a soul/folk tinge, that sold 20 million copies worldwide and received 8 Grammy awards.
Jones was born in New York City, the daughter of Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, but she spent her childhood with her mother, Sue Jones, who moved to Dallas, Texas, when Norah was four. Jones attended the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano. In 1999, two years into the program, Norah left for New York City, where she performed with the band Wax Poetic.
Jones performed quite frequently 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 music is often compared to that of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone.
Jones walked away from the Grammy Awards of 2003 with 8 awards. By receiving Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist honors all in 2003, Jones swept the "Big Four", or the four most prestigious Grammy awards.
Her second album, Feels Like Home, was released on February 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. In that same year, Time magazine listed Jones among the Most Influential People of 2004.
Jones received 3 awards at the Grammy Awards of 2005, two for her Record of the Year collaboration with Ray Charles on the song "Here We Go Again." That year, Norah Jones appeared on the self-titled record by Amos Lee.
Awards
Jones has won multiple awards, most noticeably her Grammy awards (winning 8 awards, plus an additional three received by Come Away with Me, in only 2 years of eligibility)
These are Jones' Grammy Awards:
* 2002 Best Pop Vocal Album Come Away with Me
* 2002 Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - "Don't Know Why"
* 2002 Best New Artist
* 2002 Album of the Year Come Away with Me
* 2002 Record of the Year - "Don't Know Why"
* 2004 Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals - "Here We Go Again" (with Ray Charles)
* 2004 Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - "Sunrise"
* 2004 Record of the Year - "Here We Go Again" (with Ray Charles)
Discography
Albums/EPs
*First Sessions (EP) (2001)
*Come Away with Me (2002) US #1 (for 4 weeks), UK #1, AUS #1 [Sales: 10 million US, 20 million Worldwide]
*Feels Like Home (2004) US #1 (for 6 weeks), UK #1, AUS #1 - [4 million US, 12 million Worldwide]
Singles
* "Come Away With Me" #2 Canada
* "Don't Know Why" #30 US, #3 AUS
* "Sunrise" #4 Canada
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