the University of North Texas

What do you get when you blend jazz, rock, pop, people, punk, and nation? Norah Jones. In her thirty-five years, this amazing performer and vocalist has effectively investigated an assortment of musical structures, acquiring the admiration of her fans, as well as her counterparts and faultfinders.

Geetanjali Norah Jones Shankar was conceived on March 30, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York. Her guardians, sitarist Ravi Shankar and show promoter Sue Jones, finished their relationship not long after Geetanjali's introduction to the world. Geetanjali and her mother moved to Texas at age 9, and Geetanjali was antagonized from her father until she was 18.

As a kid, Geetanjali sang in chapel and adapted piano. She went to Booker T. Washington High School for performing expressions, and won three Downbeat understudy music grants for structure and jazz vocals. At 16 years old Geetanjali abbreviated her name to Norah Jones, and started singing in nearby cafés.

Norah majored in jazz piano at the University of North Texas. After her sophomore year Norah summered in New York City; she began to look all starry eyed at the city, and never thought back. She got her huge break when a representative at the guardian organization of Blue Note Records heard her sing at a jazz club. Jones marked with Blue Note in 2001.

Return Away With Me was discharged in ahead of schedule 2002. Its substance "joined jazz feel... with a pop sensibility."come Away with Me was an epic achievement, and Norah Jones won five Grammys for her work. The collection arrived at jewel status, offering in excess of 26 million duplicates.

In 2003, Norah took a shot at her exceptionally foreseen catch up collection, Feels Like Home, blending '70s style tracks with soul, nation, and piano jazz. The collection, discharged in 2004, was not overall respected by commentators. While some said the music was so comparable there was no option her first discharge, others said that it looked like languid lift music, which earned her the epithet "Snorah Jones." Thankfully the general population did not by any stretch of the imagination concur with the commentators, and the collection has sold in excess of 10 million duplicates around the world.

In 2006, Norah issued a collection with the Little Willies, a band that secured excellent American music like Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. She next discharged Not Too Late, a collection which thought outside the box of sentimental music, in January, 2007. Norah composed or co-composed all the verses, and utilized the collection to express her conclusions against the Iraq war and the authority of President George W. Shrubbery. The collection sold in excess of two million duplicates inside two months after its discharge.

For the following two years, Jones would not understand business achievement. She showed up with her inquisitive independent rock band, El Madmo, wearing Eddie Munster, Batman, and ZZ Top outfits. In 2008, El Madmo discharged a collection of the same name. The collection, planned as a "whimsical" creation, satisfied that notoriety; it earned an audit that said it sounds, in spots, in the same way as a "star-is-exhausted joke-rock" venture