Norah Jones
Norah Jones
Norah Jones is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Throughout her career, Jones has won numerous awards and has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the 2000–2009 decade chart...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth30 March 1979
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes.
I'm ballsy. Well, sometimes I'm ballsy.
I'm not a great piano player.
I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.
Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.
I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.
If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me
A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.