Monday, March 10, 2003		Web Jingle

Norah Jones (23) is daughter of sitar maestro, Ravi Shankar. She was honoured with top honours of the music industry bagging five personal Grammys, including the best album of the year for Come Away With Me. It has sold six million copies worldwide. She also won trophies for the best new artiste, record of the year (Don’t Know Why), best pop vocal album and best female pop vocal performance.

Norah Jones was born March 30, 1979, in New York City. When she was four years old, Norah and her mother Sue moved to the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, Texas. Norah’s musical influences came from her mother’s LP collection and from ‘oldies’ radio. She began singing in church at five. She took her piano lessons two years later.

When she was 15, she and her mother moved from Grapevine to Dallas’ central city, where Norah enrolled in Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

Norah, in her high school, won the Down Beat Student Music Awards for Best Jazz Vocalist and Best Original Composition in 1996. After graduation, Jones entered the University of North Texas, nationally renowned for its music programs, where she specialised in jazz piano. She also sang with a band called Laszlo. In 1999, Norah came to Manhattan and never returned to North Texas State. Music kept her in Manhattan. She began recording the songs of Come Away With Me in May 2001, doing preliminary work with producer Craig Street at Bearsville Studio in Woodstock, New York. For nearly a year, beginning December 1999, Norah worked with the funk-fusion band Wax Poetic (now signed to Atlantic). But she soon assembled her own group with Jesse Harris, Lee Alexander, and Dan Rieser. In October 2000, the group recorded a selection of songs for Blue Note Records.

www.norahjones.com

It is the official Website of Norah Jones. There are various sections of the site that gives full information about the singer. News, shows, music, discography, store, mailing list, photos, message board and contact info are the links available on the index page of the site. On the music page we can hear her songs in different formats. Songs are available in Real media format, MP3 format and videos are available in Real Media format. The videos of the songs, Nightingale, and Come Away With Me are available on this page. The site permits us to download the songs available in MP3 format, but we can’t download the songs available in Real Media format. Apart from music there are 10 photo-galleries available in the photos section.

www.bluenote.ca/norah_jones

Music, gallery, artist info, tours and news are the main sections of the site. In the artist info section the complete biography of Norah is given. On this page there is a promotional video kept for viewing online. In music section, there is a list of songs, sung by Norah. The songs, Come Away With Me and Don’t Know Why are available for listening online.

www.maxalbums.com

This site is a big resource of MP3 songs. Songs are arranged in alphabetical order. We can find the songs of Norah by clicking "N" on the Index page. Scroll down the result page and almost on the end of page the link is given of her album, which opens up a new window. We can download all songs of her album from this page. All songs are available in the MP3 format.

Check www.lyricsmania.com/n/norahjones for the lyrics of the songs sung by Norah Jones. Lyrics of all her songs are available on this page.