Norah Jones
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Norah Jones (* 30th March 1979 as Geethali Norah Jones Shankar in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American Soul - and jazz singer, pianist , songwriter , actress and multiple Grammy -Preisträgerin.
Life
Norah Jones is the daughter of Susan Jones and Ravi Shankar . Anoushka Shankar is her half-sister. At the age of four, she moved with her mother to Grapevine, Texas , a suburb of Dallas . Two years later she took piano lessons , and for some time she also played the saxophone and trumpet . At age 15, she enrolled at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, from which Erykah Badu and Roy Hargrove also graduated. During her school days she received several prizes for her singing and her compositions. She changed her name when she was 16 and with her father's permission. After high school, Jones went to the University of North Texas, known for its good music lessons, in 1997 , where he studied jazz piano . On the side she sang in the band Laszlo .
In 1999 she moved to New York and performed regularly with the funk band Wax Poetic by İlhan Erşahin on. But soon she founded her own band with Jesse Harris, Lee Alexander and Dan Rieser. In October 2000 they recorded some demo tapes for Blue Note Records and in January 2001 they signed a contract there. Jones recorded two songs for Charles Hunter's album Songs from the Analog Playground : More Than This by Roxy Music and Day Is Done by Nick Drake .
In 2003 she received five Grammys for her album Come Away with Me, produced by Arif Mardin . This made her known to a wider audience. A year later, the album Feels Like Home was released . In 2006 she released an album of the same name with her band The Little Willies .
On January 26, 2007 her album Not Too Late was released . In the same year she made her debut as an actress with the part of Elizabeth in My Blueberry Nights , the US road movie by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai . The film opened the 60th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2007 .
On November 13, 2009, her fourth studio album was released with the title The Fall . In November 2010 the album ... Featuring followed and in April 2012 the album Little Broken Hearts, which was produced by Danger Mouse . In 2011 she had already contributed to his album Rome , which was produced in cooperation with Daniele Luppi , for several pieces with her voice. Her sixth studio album, Day Breaks , was released in October 2016.
She is married and has two sons (* 2014 and 2016).
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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 AT
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 CH
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| 2002 |
Come Away with Me Blue Note |
DE2  × 5
(141 weeks)DE |
AT2  × 2
(101 weeks)AT |
CH2 × 3
(133 weeks)CH |
UK1 × 8
(152 weeks)UK |
US1  (164 weeks)US |
First published: February 26, 2002
Sales: + 19,670,000 |
| 2004 | Feels Like Home Blue Note |
DE1 × 3
(64 weeks)DE |
AT1 × 3
(53 weeks)AT |
CH1 × 3
(62 weeks)CH |
UK1 × 3
(48 weeks)UK |
US1 × 4
(71 weeks)US |
First published: February 10, 2004
Sales: + 9,110,000 |
| 2007 | Not Too Late Blue Note, EMI |
DE1 (32 weeks)DE |
AT1 × 2
(22 weeks)AT |
CH1 × 2
(34 weeks)CH |
UK1 (13 weeks)UK |
US1 × 2
(34 weeks)US |
First published:
Jan 26, 2007 Sales: + 3,457,500 |
| 2009 | The Fall Blue Note, EMI |
DE3 (17 weeks)DE |
AT3 (25 weeks)AT |
CH1 (22 weeks) CH |
UK24 (6 weeks)UK |
US3 (25 weeks)US |
First published: November 11, 2009
Sales: + 1,670,500 |
| 2012 | Little Broken Hearts Blue Note, EMI |
DE3 (13 weeks) DE |
AT1 (17 weeks) AT |
CH1 (21 weeks) CH |
UK4 (4 weeks) UK |
US2 (26 weeks) US |
First published: April 25, 2012
Sales: + 105,000 |
| 2016 | Day Breaks Blue Note |
DE3 (14 weeks) DE |
AT2 (16 weeks)AT |
CH1 (14 weeks) CH |
UK9 (4 weeks) UK |
US2 (12 weeks) US |
First published: October 7, 2016
Sales: +85,000 |
| 2019 | Begin Again Blue Note |
DE35 (2 weeks) DE |
AT31 (2 weeks) AT |
CH11 (5 weeks) CH |
- |
US164 (1 week) US |
First published: April 12, 2019
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| 2020 | Pick Me Up Off the Floor Blue Note |
DE6 (... weeks) DE |
AT2 (... weeks) AT |
CH1 (... week) CH |
UK47 (1 week) UK |
US87 (... weeks) US |
First published: June 12, 2020
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Artist awards
Norah Jones has won numerous awards including the following Grammy Awards:
- 2003: Best Pop Vocal Album - Come Away with Me
- 2003: Album of the Year - Come Away with Me
- 2003: Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical - Come Away with Me
- 2003: Record of the Year - Don't Know Why
- 2003: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - Don't Know Why
- 2003: Song Of The Year - Don't Know Why
- 2003: Best New Artist
- 2005: Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals - Here We Go Again (with Ray Charles)
- 2005: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - Sunrise
- 2005: Record of the Year - Here We Go Again (with Ray Charles)
Filmography
- 2007: My Blueberry Nights
- 2017: ARTE - Baloise Session 2016: Norah Jones , 75 min. Recording at the Baloise Session , Basel.
Guest appearances
- 2002: a boss to fall in love with (as herself)
- 2008: Sesame Street (as herself)
- 2009: 30 Rock (as herself)
- 2012: Ted (as herself)
swell
- ^ Thomas J. Dilworth: What's Next for Norah Jones? In: ABC News . American Broadcasting Company , July 6, 2007; accessed October 15, 2016.
- ↑ Derrick Bryson Taylor: Private Norah Jones Spotted with Baby Boy . In: Page Six . September 30, 2014.
- ↑ Rachel McRady: Norah Jones Gives Birth to Her Second Child! . In: Entertainment Tonight . July 7, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- ↑ arte, station information on the film, link to the media library
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Norah Jones at JazzEcho
- Norah Jones on MusicBrainz (English)
- Norah Jones at Discogs (English)
- Norah Jones in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Further links about Norah Jones in the Open Music Project - MusicMoz (English)
- Works by and about Norah Jones in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jones, Norah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones Shankar, Geethali Norah (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States |