Norah Jones

Norah Jones: Biography in Details

Who is Norah Jones?

Norah Jones is an Indian-American singer-songwriter and musician whose genre is a fusion of jazz, pop, and country music.

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She started her career with her debut album Come Away with Me (2002) and ultimately rose to fame.

Norah Jones- Age, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity, Education

Jones was born on March 30, 1979, in Manhattan, New York City, with the birthname Geethali Norah Jones Shankar.

The 43-year-old singer holds Indian-American ethnicity and has an Aries ascendant.

Her parents were mother Sue Jones, an American concert producer, and her father Indian musician Ravi Shankar.

Her father is an Indian sitarist and composer.

Jones’s parents divorced in 1986, so she started living with her mother in Grapevine, Texas.

Also, she is the half-sister of fellow musicians Anoushka Shankar and Shubhendra Shankar.

Talking about her siblings, Anoushka is a British-Indian sitar player, producer, writer, and activist. Similarly, half-brother Shubhendra is a graphic artist, musician, and writer.

As a child, Jones began singing in church and took piano and voice lessons.

At the age of 16, she officially changed her name to Norah Jones, removing the Indian elements from her name with the parents’ consent.

Education

Jones majored in jazz piano at the University of North Texas (UNT) but dropped out after 2 years.

Before that, she attended Colleyville Middle School and Grapevine High School.

She was transferred to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas.

Further, she attended Interlochen Center for the Arts during the summers.

Jones won the DownBeat Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996) in her high school days.

Norah Jones- Professional Life, Career

Norah started her musical journey by singing solos repeatedly in the local Methodist Church.

In her early days, she sang in the school choir, participated in a band, and played the alto saxophone.

She always loves the musical ideas of Bill Evans and Billie Holiday.

She had a collaboration with Jesse Harris, Richard Julian, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Outkast, and Foo Fighters.

In 1999, Jones left Texas for New York City, and a  year later, she started a band with Harris and has performed with singers Wax Poetic, Peter Malick, and jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter before she released her first studio album.

Jones had gone to New Delhi and drafted a few materials from her father Ravi Shankar’s teaching which she included in the album The Fall.

Studio albums

• Come Away with Me (2002)
• 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)

Awards and Nomination

Jones first achieved national recognition when she won three Student Music Awards.

She was featured in the jazz magazine Down Beat.  She is a nine-time Grammy Award winner for the genres jazz, country music, and pop.

Norah Jones- Net worth, Salary

Norah Jones has an eye-popping net worth of $30 million USD, as of Feb 2022 which she garnered from her singing career, inheritance from her parents, and song albums.

Jones has purchased a residence in Corbel hill which was worth 6.25 million dollars USD.

She earns a handsome paycheque but the exact salary in figures is unknown.

Norah Jones- Rumors, Controversy

To date, there have not been any controversies related to singer-songwriter Norah Jones and she has managed to keep a clean profile amongst the public.

Body Features- Height, Weight

Norah Jones stands at a height of 5 feet and 1 inch and weighs around 53 kg.

According to bodysize.org, as of 2022 her chest-waist-hip measurement is 40-25-35 and wears a bra of 38B.

Her shoe size is 5.5(US) and her dress size is 8 (US).

In addition, she has a fair body complexion with a round face that features her dark brown hair and eyes of the same color.

Social Media

Norah is active on Instagram with the username @norahjones with 440k followers and 350 posts.

She has a fan following of 4. 1 million on Facebook and 225.9k followers on her official Twitter account.

Other than that, Norah Jones is unavailable on TikTok and YouTube.

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