Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Shankar ; 30 March 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He has won many awards and has sold over 50 million records worldwide. Billboard named it the top jazz artist of the 2000-2009 decade. He has won nine Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th in the artist of Billboard magazine from the 2000-2009 decade chart.
In 2002, Jones launched his solo music career with the release of Come Away with Me , a commercially successful and critical album that is a jazz mix with country and pop music. It's certified Diamond, selling over 27 million copies. The record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist. Subsequent studio albums Feels Like Home , released in 2004; Not Too Late , released in 2007, and 2009's The Fall all gained Platinum status, selling over one million copies apiece. They are also well received by critics. Jones' fifth studio album, Little Broken Hearts, was released on April 27, 2012, and his latest studio album, Breakthrough, was released on October 7, 2016. Jones made his debut the movie at My Blueberry Nights , released in 2007.
Jones is the daughter of Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, and is the half-brother of fellow musician Anoushka Shankar.
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Jones was born Geetali Norah Shankar on March 30, 1979 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, to American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian musician Ravi Shankar.
After her parents split up in 1986, Norah lived with her mother, growing up in Grapevine, Texas. He attended Cross Timbers Secondary School and Grapevine High School before moving to Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas. While in high school, he sings in the school choir, participates in the band, and plays alto saxophone. At the age of 16, with the approval of his parents, he officially changed his name to Norah Jones.
Jones always has affinity for Bill Evans and Billie Holiday's music, including "oldies". She once said, "My mom has Billie Holiday set of eight albums, I picked one disc I like and played it over and over".
As a child, Jones started singing in church and also took piano lessons and sounds. He still attends church. He considers himself spiritual and appreciates his church's rituals but does not consider himself very religious.
She attended Interlochen Center for the Arts during the summer. While in high school, he won the Student Music Award Down Beat for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996).
Jones attended the University of North Texas (UNT), where he majored in jazz piano and singing with UNT Jazz Singer. During this time, he has the chance to meet with future collaborator Jesse Harris. He gave a ride to a band playing in a university whose members happened to be friends with Harris. He was on a cross-country journey with friends and members of Little Willies future Richard Julian, and stopped to see the band's performances. After meeting with Jones, Harris began to send the main sheet of the song.
In 1999, Jones left Texas for New York City. Less than a year later, he started the band with Harris, and the recording with them was a bestseller.
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Musical career
Jones was a lounge singer before becoming a recording artist. Before releasing his first album, he appeared with Poetic Wax, Peter Malick, and jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter.
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As artist Peter Malick said in a liner note, "I started looking for a singer who could record [my latest songs] for me." On Tuesday night I walked into the Living Room just as the singer announced the last song of the set. The classic Washington "Because I'm Falling for You" fills the room and I'm breathing in. Here, in Billie Holiday tradition, comes a very beautiful voice, blues infused.This is my first contact with Norah Jones. "
Peter would ask Norah to sit on sessions in Room 9 of Space in South Boston, Massachusetts, in August and September 2000. Together, they recorded Malick songs-writing "New York City", "Strange Transmission" , and "Deceive You", along with the covers of "All Love" (Sam Maghett), and "Heart of Mine" (Bob Dylan). These songs will be the album The Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones, New York City (2003). The CD, released on Koch Records (KOC-CD-8678), has long been out of print and is relatively rare.
2001-2003: First Session and Come Away with Me
After moving to New York City, Jones signed a contract with Blue Note Records, a label owned by EMI Group. The signing came as an indirect result from Jones appearing as lead singer for JC Hopkins Biggish Band. Shell White, then wife of JC Hopkins, works for EMI Publishing and follows Jones' three-track demo to label president Bruce Lundvall and A & amp; R Brian Bacchus. The demo featured two jazz and track standards by Jesse Harris. Lundvall and Bacchus immediately agree that Jones has great potential. Although initially unsure about which direction his music will follow, especially since Blue Note is a jazz label, they decided to sign Jones. Bacchus told HitQuarters: "We let him find his own direction... We know that if he can develop his songwriting and we can find great songs, it will work."
Jones first teamed up with experienced producer and engineer Jay Newland. Bacchus thinks that Newland's experience in jazz, blues, rock, country and folk will give him a "feeling for his voice." Together they cut about nine demo songs, of which six released Blue Note debuts, First Sessions sampler, while the rest were set aside for his debut album. First Session was released in 2001.
Released in February 2002, Jones' debut album, Come Away with Me , is celebrated for mellow mix, acoustic pop with soul and jazz. Debuting at No. 139, reached No. 1 on US Billboard 200. The single "Do not Know Why" hit No. 1. 1 on Top 40 Adult Recurrents in 2003 and No. 30 on Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
In 2003, he was nominated for eight and eventually won five Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, Recording of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Appearance for "Do not Know Why" on the 45th Grammy Awards. This matches the record for most Grammy won by female artists in one night (tying up with Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys). That night, Jesse Harris won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year for writing "Do not Know Why", Arif Mardin won the Producer of the Year, especially for his work on Come Away With Me, and this album also received a Grammy Award for Best Engineered, Non-Classic Album.
The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on August 22, 2002, and later became the Berlian album on February 15, 2005.
2004-2006: Feels Like Home and collaboration with Ray Charles
Jones released his second album, Feels Like Home , on February 9, 2004. It was influenced by country music. Within a week of its release, Feels Like Home has sold over a million copies. It sold 4 million copies in the United States and achieved Platinum status fourfold, and sold over 12 million copies worldwide. Jones made a global tour, promoting albums with Charming Bands, and supporting singer Daru Oda.
Time Magazine inserted Jones on Time 100, the list of most influential people of 2004. The album debuted at No. 1. 1 in at least 16 countries worldwide.
In 2005, at the 47th Grammy Awards, Feels Like Home was nominated for three Grammys. It won Best Female Pop Vocal Appearance for "Sunrise", and has nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for her duet with Dolly Parton, "Creepin 'In".
She won two Grammy Awards that year, for Record of the Year and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for her collaboration with Ray Charles, "Here We Go Again", the first song on Charles's last album, Genius Loves Company. The album won the Album of the Year award.
2007-2008: Not too late and movie debut
Jones released his third album, Not Too Late , on January 30, 2007. This album was the first he wrote or co-wrote each song. He says some of these songs are much darker than those on previous albums. Not Too Late mostly recorded at Jones's home studio. This is his first album without producer Arif Mardin, who died in the summer of 2006. Jones described the session as "fun, easy and easy" and without a deadline; Blue Note executives reported not to know he was recording an album. The song "My Dear Country" is a political commentary; he wrote it before the election day of the President of the United States in 2004.
Not Too Late reached No. position. 1 in twenty countries. Not Too Late had the first week of third best selling in 2007, behind Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing and Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight . It reached No. 1 in the US, selling 405,000 copies. EMI announced that Not Too Late reached gold, platinum or multi platinum in 21 countries in February 2007. The album has sold 4 million copies worldwide. That same year she sang "American Anthem" for the documentary Ken Burns The War .
Jones made his film debut in 2007 in My Blueberry Nights romance/drama, directed by Wong Kar Wai, starring Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. Jones as Elizabeth is a young woman who travels soul searches throughout the United States to resolve her questions about love, and finds along the way a series of curious characters. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007 and in the United States in April 2008.
2009-2011: Fall and ... Showing
Jones's fourth studio album, The Fall , debuted at Number 3 on Billboard 200 in November 2009, selling 180,000 copies in its first week. Although it was his first album that did not reach No. 1 in the United States it received critical acclaim. As part of the promotional drive for the album, Jones appeared on the Dancing with the Stars , Late Show with David Letterman , Good Morning America and other television programs.
Fall show St. Bernard on the cover; his name is Ben. The album's main single, "Chasing Pirates", peaked at No. 1. 13 at Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and No. 7 in Jazz Songs.
Billboard ' s 2000-2009 awarded Jones's decade ranking as the top jazz recording artist, at No. 1. Best artist. Come Away With Me selected as album no. 4 and no. 1 jazz album. Jones acquired platinum certification by the RIAA for the sale of 1 million copies of The Fall. The album sold 1.5 million copies worldwide and was certified gold or platinum in 14 countries in 2010. "Baby, It's Cold Outside", a duet with Willie Nelson, was nominated in Best Pop Collaboration with Vocal category.
In 2009, Jones performed "Come Away With Me" and "Young Blood" at the end of Apple's Just Only Rock and Roll press conference on September 9 in San Francisco, to release iTunes 9 and a video camera - iPod equipped, Other items He also made guest appearances and performed with other artists at the end of the season from the NBC series 30 Rock
Jones started his fourth world tour on March 5, 2010.
Jones released ... Featuring , a compilation album from a collaboration he has done with famous musicians, including Foo Fighters, Willie Nelson, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Outkast, Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, Belle and Sebastian , Ray Charles, Ryan Adams, Dolly Parton, Herbie Hancock, M. Ward, and others. Jones said, "It's so fun and flattering and fun when I'm asked to sing with someone I admire.... It takes you a little out of your comfort zone when you're doing something with other artists You do not" I know what will happen - it's like being a kid and having a playdate. "Note 18-track Blue Note was released on November 16, 2010.
Jones recorded a Christmas duet, "Home for the Holidays", with Cyndi Lauper.
As a tribute to Steve Jobs, Jones appeared at Apple Campus in October 2011, featuring "Nearness of You" and "Painter Song." She finished her live broadcast, three songs featuring Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" in honor of Jobs, because "she likes Bob Dylan".
2012-2015: Little Broken
After working with Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi on several songs from their album Rome , Jones teamed up with Danger Mouse for his fifth studio album, Little Broken Hearts, which was released on May 1, 2012. Jones plays album on SXSW 2012 as a whole. American songwriter refers to Little Broken Hearts as "the most dramatic and rewarding departure she made in her career."
On May 25, 2012, Jones began his fifth fifth tour of Paris. The tour includes stops in Europe, North America, Asia, South America, and Australia.
Jones performed in London at Roundhouse on September 10, 2012, as part of the iTunes Festival. The concert was broadcast live via the internet.
In September 2012, it was featured in a campaign called "30 Songs/30 Days" to support Half Sky: Transforming Oppression into Opportunities for Women Worldwide , a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Book. He toured three cities in India for the first time, because his father wanted him to do it. He also performed a headlining show at Summer's Day, a new music festival produced by Only Much Louder. The tour starts at Summer's Day in Mumbai on March 3 and includes stops in New Delhi on March 5 and Bangalore on March 8th.
On May 6, 2015, Jones appeared on "Late Show with David Letterman", performing "Do not Know Why", which he also performed on his first 'Late Show' appearance exactly 13 years into the previous day. The 2015 episode airs within two weeks of the final recording of 'Late Show' with Letterman as the host. That year, she performed Little Bird and God Only Knows at Brian Fest.
2016-present: Afternoon
In November 2015, during a brief US tour, Jones confirmed that he had completed a "big piece" of footage for his sixth studio album and that it was "coming soon."
On March 1, 2016, Jones announced on social media that he was almost done with his new album.
On 5 August 2016, Jones announced the release date for his sixth studio album, Day Breaks . The album, featuring nine new tracks and three covers, was released on October 7, 2016. The album's main single, "Carry On", was released to a digital outlet on the same day. The album marks back to her piano after dabbling in folk and pop for the last two recordings. Jones says the purpose of this recording is to do everything directly. He said in an interview with Billboard: "When you have great musicians, there's no excuse for overdubs, it's removing the soul from music."
Additional projects and collaborations
Jones made a cameo appearance as himself in the 2002 film Two Weeks Notice, starring Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock. The film shows it briefly on the piano, singing for charity purposes.
In 2003, The Peter Malick Group and Jones released the album, New York City . Jones appeared on Speakerboxxx/The Love Below's OutKast album, in "Take Off Your Cool". The album won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year (Jones is not credited). Also in 2003, Jones appeared on Joel Harrison's album of jazz country and folk country, Countryside Free, as the lead vocalist on "I Walk the Line" and "Tennessee Waltz".
Jones formed The Little Willies in 2003, alongside Richard Julian on vocals, Jim Campilongo on guitar, Lee Alexander on bass, and Dan Rieser on drums. Country alt band released their first eponymous album in 2006 and For the Good Times in 2012.
Jones appeared in 2004 specifically, Sesame Street Presents: The Street We Live On . Jones appeared in concert and DVD "Back to Sin City - A Tribute to Gram Parsons". Jones performed "She" and then, along with Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, sang "Love Hurts".
In 2005, Jones appeared on the album Foo Fighters' In Your Honor, featuring piano and vocals on the song "Virginia Moon". The song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, in 2006.
Jones appeared on Ryan Adams' & amp; 2005 Cardinals Album, Jacksonville City Nights , on the track "Dear John", which he wrote along with Adams. In 2011, Jones also played piano and vocals on many songs on studio album 2011 Ryan Adams Ashes & amp; Fire .
Jones worked with Mike Patton in 2006, providing vocals on the "Sucker" track on Tom's Peeping project. The song drew attention because this is the first time Jones used profanity in the recording.
In 2007, Jones made his acting debut as a protagonist in the film directed by Wong Kar-wai. The film, My Blueberry Nights , opened for the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as one of 22 films in the competition. He wrote and performed the song, "The Story", for the movie.
In January 2007, Jones recorded a live session at Abbey Road Studios for Live from Abbey Road . The episode, in which John Mayer and Richard Ashcroft also appeared, was broadcast on UK Channel 4 and on the Sundance Channel. He appeared twice in the PBS series Austin City Limits, on November 2, 2002, and October 6, 2007. His last appearance was the season opener.
In a change of direction preceding the Fall, Jones (calling himself "Maddie" and almost anonymous in blond wigs) sang and played guitar with rock band El Madmo. The band consists of Jones, Daru Oda and Richard Julian and released an eponymous album on May 20, 2007.
Jones appeared in the 2007 release of Herbie Hancock River: The Joni Letters, singing the first song, "Court and Spark". The album won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008; Jones is credited as a leading artist, his ninth Grammy victory.
Jones is the judge for the 5th annual Independent Music Awards, which supports the career of independent artists.
In 2010, Jones contributed "World of Trouble" to the Quite Project and the Downtown Record "Improving Hope for the Congo." The results of a compilation fund effort to make the protection and empowerment of Congolese women a priority, and to inspire people around the world to raise their voice for peace in the Congo.
Jones collaborated with Seth MacFarlane's creator of Seth MacFarlane's debut album Grammy-nominated studio album "Music Is Better Than Words" on the song "Two Sleepy People". Jones also has a cameo appearance in MacFarlane's 2012 feature film Ted . In addition to the film, he collaborated with MacFarlane on the song "Everybody Needs a Best Friend", recorded on the movie soundtrack album and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Jones will then collaborate with MacFarlane on their second studio album Holiday for Swing on the song "Little Jack Frost Get Lost".
Jones menyanyikan "It Came Upon Midnight Clear", "Silent Night" dan "Pooping Log (Caga TiÃÆ'³)" pada Holiday Special 2011 dari Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations .
Jones appeared in a trio band, Fangbanger, with Sasha Dobson and Catherine Popper.
In October 2013, it was revealed that Jones Jones and Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong will be releasing an LP duet. The album, consisting of a cover of the Everly Brothers album Our Daddy Taught Us Song Foreverly and was released on November 25, 2013. Jones collaborated with his step sister, Anoushka Shankar, on the album Shankar Traces of You , was released on October 22, 2013. She contributed vocals to three songs on the album.
Jones recorded an album with his country's music project, a trio of women called Puss n Boots, consisting of Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper. The album, titled No Fools, No Fun , was released on July 15, 2014, via Blue Note Records.
In 2014, Jones played with his colleagues including Jason Moran, John Patitucci, Brian Blade and Wayne Shorter in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Blue Note Notes at the John F. Kennedy Center Concert Hall for the Performing Arts. Later, Jones joined Mavis Staples for two songs at the Newport Folk Festival to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Staples.
Jones is featured on Harold Mabern 2014 Afro Blue album, singing "Fools Rush In" and "Do not Misunderstand". On September 28, 2014, he appeared at the George Fest awards concert to George Harrison in Los Angeles, where he sang "Something" and "Behind the Locked Door". Three days earlier, Jones performed "Behind the Locked Door" it was directly on the TBS show Conan . His performance at George Fest was included in the album and the 2016 film release of the event.
Jones duets with The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards on the song "Illusions", from his 2015 album Crosseyed Heart.
Jones donated his voice to the end of the credit song of the movie A Dog Named Gucci on the song "One Voice". The song also features singers Aimee Mann, Susanna Hoffs, Lydia Loveless, Neko Case, Kathryn Calder and Brian May. It was produced by Dean Falcone, who wrote the film score. "One Voice" was released on the Record Store Day, April 16, 2016, with the profit of a single sale benefiting animal charities.
In 2017, Jones recorded the song "Unchained Melody", a song made famous by The Righteous Brothers, for Radio Resistance: The Man in the High Castle Album, the soundtrack for The Man in the High from Amazon Serial TV Series. Songs and soundtracks are produced by Danger Mouse, which Jones did in his 2012 album, Little Broken Hearts.
Hank Williams Project
Jones is one of the participants in the so-called "Hank Williams Project" overseen by Bob Dylan, and is reported to include contributions from Willie Nelson, Jack White, Lucinda Williams, and Alan Jackson. On March 31, 2008, Jones commemorated the 20th anniversary of The Living Room with a midnight performance at the intimate Manhattan music venue where the singer began. She plays a new song titled "How Many Times You Break My Heart" and explains that it comes from the recently discovered lyrics of Hank Williams being asked to put on music. Jones also performed the song at the end of 2008 on Elvis Costello's talk/music television series, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... .
Tour
Throughout 2002 and 2003, Jones appeared gradually throughout the world, on his first tour with Charming Band, traveling throughout Asia, America, Europe, and Oceania, with many sold-out concerts and critical acclaim. The Jones tour to promote his third album, Not Too Late, began in Wallingford, Connecticut, on April 13, 2007, and featured a free concert in New York City on July 6, 2007. The European phase begins on July 9, 2007 , in Paris, ended in ReykjavÃÆ'k, Iceland, on September 2, 2007. Jones and the band played usually several album hits, modified with guitar solos and additional percussion. In addition, the show can feature some country songs, jazz, blues, or folk songs, from the common to the unclear. The included artists include, among others, Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Randy Newman, Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Tom Waits, and Townes Van Zandt.
Jones worked with Reverb, a non-profit environmental organization, for his summer tour in 2007. He also appeared at Bryant Park on July 6 as part of Good Summer Summer's Summer Concert Series.
The Small Heart Tour Broken 2012-2013 has stopped in several countries of South America and India. This is the first time she has toured in these countries.
- 2002/04: Come with Me Tour
- 2004/05: Norah Jones & amp; Handsome Band Tour
- 2007/08: The Tour Is Not Too Late
- 2010: Autumn Tour
- 2012/13: Little Broken Hearts Tour
- 2016/17: Morning World Tour
Personal life
Jones was in a long-term relationship with bassist Lee Alexander from 2000 until their breakup in December 2007. The lyrics of the next album The Fall and Little Broken Hearts should reflect the element of the relationship. After a period of estrangement from his father, Ravi Shankar, Jones traveled to New Delhi, India, to spend time with him, and wrote some material that was later recorded for the Fall album. Ravi Shankar dies in 2012.
In February 2014, Jones had his first child, a son, with her husband, who he said wanted to remain anonymous; they have a second child in 2016. Jones is known to be very personal about his personal life. Regarding the emergence of social media and SMS, he commented: "In my 20s, we have not even sent SMS yet," he said. "There was a moment when I was told, 'You need to have more fans on social media to get orders on this event.' That makes sense to me - I'm just not that good. "
Discography
- Come Away with Me (2002)
- Feels Like Home (2004)
- Not Too Late (2007)
- Fall (2009)
- Small Broken Heart (2012)
- Day Breaks (2016)
With Billie Joe Armstrong
- Forever (2013)
Moviesography
Awards and nominations
See also
- Fry Street Fire - Norah Jones is Honorary Chairman of "Save Fry Street".
- Asian Indians in the New York City metropolitan area
References
External links
- Official website
- Norah Jones on IMDb
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