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Come Away With MeNorah Jones | MySpace Music Videos
The incomparable Norah Jones singing "Come Away With Me." Click on the My Space Music Videos link just above. Believe me, it is worth the time to hear her.
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 Her career began with her 2002 debut album Come Away with Me, an adult contemporary vocal jazz album with a soul/folk/country tinge, that received eight Grammy Awards, five of which were awarded personally to Jones, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best New Artist.
This was followed by her second album, Feels like Home, released in 2004. In 2007, she released her third album, Not Too Late and her fourth album, The Fall, was released on November 17, 2009.
She has sold more than 17 million albums in the US and over 37 million records worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 2000s.
On December 11, 2009, Jones was named Billboard's 60th-highest artist of the decade based on charting of her songs and Billboard magazine named her the top Jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of her time. br>
Geethali Norah Jones Shankar, popularly known by her stage name Norah Jones, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and actress.
She is the daughter of Indian sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar and dancer Sue Jones, and the half-sister of Anoushka Shankar.
Jones was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 30, 1979.  She spent her childhood with her mother, who moved to the Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, Texas, when Jones was four.
She attended Colleyville Middle School, followed by a short period at Grapevine High School before transferring to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas.
Her only formal vocal training was her stint in the choir at Colleyville and Booker T. Washington. While at Colleyville, she also participated in band and played the alto saxophone. At the age of sixteen, with the blessings of her parents, she officially changed her name to "Norah Jones".
Jones always had an affinity for the music of Bill Evans and Billie Holiday, among other 'oldies.' She once said, "My mom had this eight-album Billie Holiday set; I picked out one disc that I liked and played that over and over again."
She considers Willie Nelson her mentor. She began singing in church choirs and took piano lessons as a child. She still attends church. She considers herself spiritual and appreciates the ritual of church but does not consider herself the religious type.
She attended Interlochen Center for the Arts during the summers. While at high school, she won the DownBeat Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist (twice, in 1996 and 1997) and Best Original Composition (1996).
Jones went to the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano. It was during this time she had a chance meeting with future collaborator Jesse Harris, which would later catapult her to fame.
She was to pick up a band playing at the university that also happened to be friends of Jesse Harris. Jesse Harris was making a stop on a cross-country road-trip with his friend, and future Little Willies member, Richard Julian, to see the same band play.
After meeting, Harris was soon sending her lead sheets of his songs. In 1999, she left for New York City. Less than a year later she started a band with Harris.
