Norah Jones tickets & concert schedule

Norah Jones was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1979 and she grew up with her mother in Grapevine, Texas, in 1986. Her full name is Geethali Norah Jones Shankar and she used to sing and play the saxophone with a band in the school choir. She kept Norah Jones when she became sixteen and her first influences in music were by jazz artists. She also learned to play the piano and when she met Jesse Harris they began collaborating. Jones moved to New York City and they formed a band after 1999.

Jones started as a lounge singer until Peter Malick discovered her, they worked together and they recorded "New York City" in 2000, a blues album with jazz elements, that came out almost three years later. Jone's first EP came out in 2001, under the name "First Sessions" and was followed by her first album named "Come Away with Me", in February of 2002. The album, which is an acoustic pop album with jazz and blues elements reached the top of the US album chart with the hit "Don't Know Why" - a cover of Jesse Harri's original song - to separate. The album, which became diamond in 2005, won three Grammy Awards, including "Album of the Year". "Don't Know Why" won another three, one for "Song of the Year", and she also was awarded "Best New Artist".

Jones's second album, "Feels Like Home", reached the top of the album charts in 17 countries, while the song "Sunrise" gained the "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" Grammy Award. In the same ceremony, she gained two more awards along with Ray Charles for the duet in his "Here We Go Again". The album was followed by the also successful "Not Too Late" that was released in early 2007 and became platinum in more than 20 countries in that year. After her appearances in a couple of TV shows, she took part in the movie "My Blueberry Nights" in that year.

The next two successful albums were "The Fall" in November of 2009 and "...Featuring" one year later. The second contains other artists or bands' songs, with whom she has collaborated, such as The Little Willies (the alternative country band that she formed along with four more artists in 2003), Willie Nelson, Outkast, Ryan Adams, Foo Fighters and many more. Jones continued collaborating with various artists and her next album named "Little Broken Hearts" came out in 2012, produced by musician Danger Mouse. It is characterized by its indie-pop sound and it peaked at the second place of the USA chart, containing the song "Happy Pills". Her sixth album "Day Breaks", came out in October of 2016 and also reached no. 2 on the album charts in the USA.

Jones except for having worked with various great artists, she has been appeared in several movies and documentaries, mainly as a special guest or a cameo.