
Norah Jones (born Geethali
Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and occasional actress of Anglo-American and Bengali descent.
Jones' career was launched with her
2002 debut album Come Away with Me, a contemporary pop album with a sensual, plaintive soul/folk/country tinge, that sold over twenty million copies worldwide and received
five 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 16 million records in the US and 39 million records worldwide. She is the daughter of musical maestro
Ravi Shankar and half
sister of sitarist Anoushka Shankar.
By ladybowie - Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 08:15 AM
... LOVELY...