- Born
- Birth nameGeetali Norah Jones Shankar
- Height1.57 m
- Norah Jones first emerged on the world stage with the 2002 release of Come Away With Me, her self-described "moody little record" that introduced a singular new voice and grew into a global phenomenon, sweeping the 2003 GRAMMY Awards including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. Since then, Jones has become a nine-time GRAMMY-winner, sold more than 52 million albums, and her songs have been streamed ten billion times worldwide. She has released a series of critically acclaimed and commercially successful solo albums-Feels Like Home (2004), Not Too Late (2007), The Fall (2009), Little Broken Hearts (2012), Day Breaks (2016), Pick Me Up Off The Floor (2020), the live album 'Til We Meet Again (2021), her holiday album I Dream Of Christmas (2021), and Visions (2024)-as well as albums with her collective bands The Little Willies, El Madmo, and Puss N Boots featuring Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper. The 2010 compilation ...Featuring Norah Jones showcased her incredible versatility by collecting her collaborations with artists as diverse as Willie Nelson, Foo Fighters, Outkast, and Herbie Hancock. In 2022, Jones launched her podcast Norah Jones Is Playing Along which features candid conversations and impromptu musical collaborations with some of her favorite musicians.- IMDb mini biography by: Steven Jonathan Hendriks
- SpousePeter Remm(October 29, 2013 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenChildChild
- ParentsSue Jones
- RelativesAnoushka Shankar(Half Sibling)Shubhendra Shankar(Half Sibling)Mamata Shankar(Cousin)
- Has sold more records this century than any other female recording artist in America (as of 2007).
- Her debut album, "Come Away with Me," has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, making it the highest-selling album in the history of Blue Note Records.
- In the latter part of 2003, rumours emerged that veteran Indian filmmaker Dev Anand was planning to make the film "Song of Life," inspired by Norah Jones's troubled relationship with her father, 'Ravi Shankar'. Both Jones and Shankar were enraged by the rumors and Jones's comments were, "He [Anand] has no idea of our story, and he's not going to represent it in a truthful way, I'm sure. It's sad because it's personal stuff and nobody's business but ours."
- Has an older half-brother named Shubhendra Shankar, who is 37 years her senior.
- Performed with her father, sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, in New Delhi in 1998.
- I don't always know where to put my hands; sometimes it is endearing, sometimes not.
- [asked by Katie Couric how she felt after sweeping the 2003 Grammy Awards] I felt like I went to somebody else's birthday party and I ate all their cake without anybody else getting a piece.
- [on the effects her success has had on her life] I just do the same stuff I always did. I have a bigger apartment--that's the main change.
- I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.
- Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.
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