Norah Jones

Norah Jones, was born in New York, in a Brooklyn neighborhood called Bedford-Stuyvesant. Her father was a famous musician, the sitarist Ravi Shankar, and her mother was a concert producer. They had to move when she was four years old, to a town near Dallas, Texas, where she lived until she was twenty. There she started listening a lot to jazz and blues, from artists like Billie Holiday or Aretha Franklin. Her grandmother also liked country, and would tell her stories about Hank Williams or Willie Nelson.

At seven years old she was already playing piano and saxophone, and singing in church. Then she went to an arts school, where she got into the world of jazz. In Dallas, she studied at a music institute, and won some awards. Upon finishing, she went to the University of North Texas, where she specialized in piano and jazz theory. There she formed her first group and started playing in an Italian restaurant.