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Norah Jones
Daughter of Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, Norah Jones was born on March 30th,
1979 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, studying jazz piano at the University of
North Texas before dropping out and moving to Greenwich Village. She soon became
popular on the jazz scene, first as a lounge singer, then jamming with New York
band Wax Poetic before later setting up her own group. Her 2002 debut album Come
Away With Me proved to be the most successful jazz album of all time, knocking
Miles Davies' Kind of Blue off the top spot and is famed for sitting at the top
of the Billboard Contempor...
