Named best jazz artist from 2000-2009 by Billboard, Norah Jones is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Through her artistic prowess, the singer has managed to grab nine Grammy Awards.
As of 2019, Norah is busy with concerts all over the world.
Her last show in the States will be at the Harvest Moon Gathering on the 14th of September in Lake Hughes, California. She will be finishing her tour on the 16th of December at the Buenos Aires Arena in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Career & Net Worth
Norah Jones was interested in music from an early age. When she was at the age of five, she used to sing in the church choir.
On the 26th of February 2002, she made her debut with the album, Come Away With Me through Blue Note Records. Her very first album managed to debut at #1 in 8 major countries and sold 28 million copies worldwide.
Two years later, in 2004, Norah released her second album named Feels Like Home, followed by The Fall in 2009.
Out of her very fruitful career in the entertainment industry, the singer has been able to enjoy the finer things in life. Norah lives in a house she purchased for $6.25 million in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood. She owns a net worth of $25 Million.
Norah Jones’ Detailed Bio
Although the singer is best known as Norah Jones, she was called Geethali Norah Jones Shankar. She was born on the 30th of March 1979 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York City, USA.
40-year-old Norah is one of the three children of her father, Pandit Ravi Shankar, and mother, Sue Jones. While her father is a global phenomenon in a musician – an Indian sitar player, her mother is an American concert producer.
Norah has two half-siblings, a younger half-sister named Anoushka Shankar and an older half-brother named Shubhendra Shankar.
For her education, Norah moved through a number of schools in her youth. She went to Colleyville Middle School, Grapevine High School, and Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
The singer enrolled in the University of North Texas for college-level studies. There, Norah graduated with a degree in Jazz Piano. Later, to hone her talents, she entered the Interlochen Center for the Arts. However two years into college, Norah dropped out and left for New York’s Greenwich Village.
Norah is as adept in appearance as she is in terms of brains. She has beautiful dark brunette-colored hair. Also, she stands with an impressive height of (5 feet 1 inch (1.55 m) (1.55 m).
