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NEW YORK: Musician Norah Jones who swept eight Grammys in 2003 talked to CBS television anchor Katie Couric on 60 Minutes about her adventurous new album Not Too Late, growing up with a single mom who sacrificed to give her “every opportunity” and her desultory childhood contact with her famous Indian father, sitar maestro Ravi Shankar.

Raven-haired Jones was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar in New York but she changed her name to Norah Jones when she turned 16. Shankar never married her mother Sue Jones and Norah said the relationship was complicated and ended when she was young. “I knew who my dad was,” she told 60 Minutes.

“I saw him sporadically until I was nine and then I didn’t see him again or talk to him until I was 18.” Her mother, Jones said, didn’t want her talking about him so it was “kind of a secret.” “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.” 

However, when Jones turned 18 she reached out to her father, who was living in California with his daughter musician Anoushka Shankar and second wife. When Couric asked Jones if she was angry or sought an apology from her father when they picked up the thread of their relationship, Jones was candid, “Yeah. I might have. I might have wanted that.”

Jones told the US television programme that today she was close to her father. But pointed to her Texan upbringing when Couric asked her pointblank; “Do you consider yourself part Indian?” 

“I grew up in Texas with a white mother,” Jones said. “I feel very Texan, actually and New York. New Yorker.” 

Jones moved to New York when she was 20 and like most budding musicians in the Big Apple she waited tables and played gigs in Jazz clubs. She was only 23 when she became a surprise multiplatinum sensation with her breakthrough debut Grammy-winning album Come Away with Me which sold ove

One of the first viral posts surrounding the coronavirus, even before Tom Hanks validated its widespread reach, was a video of Italian musicians occupying balconies in a flash-mob style. It was so widely shared that even Norah Jones, a reluctant social media user, couldn’t help sharing the cheer. “Music brings people together. It tells you that you're not alone,” she says, smiling faintly from her bed in New York through my Zoom window. “But it’s become a real roller coaster of feelings since, especially here in the States.” 

With COVID-19, the ongoing #BLM protests, the upcoming US elections and the impending climate crisis, for many, like Jones, music has been a coping mechanism. It is what prompted her to release her seventh studio album, Pick Me Up Off the Floor, during the pandemic. “There were moments I felt that what I do is so trivial, in a time like this, that it doesn’t matter. And then I thought about how every morning I’d play some music and it’d make me feel better. I couldn’t survive isolation without it,” she shares about the impetus to release her 11-track mash-up that oscillates from jazz pop to blues, gospel, even hip-hop and funk. “If it can help one person get through the day, I guess it’s important.” 

The gospel-infused ‘To Live’, a song she revisits for Vogue India as part of our issue themed around hope, is off this new record. The album is a collection of unreleased material accumulated since 2018, but listen carefully and it seems made for the times. 

RAW AND REAL 

Relatability has always come naturally to Jones. Lounging against a pillow, she carries this interview in the same effortless fashion in which you’d think she records her music. This innate realness and understated honesty comes alive during her mini sets on Instagram every week. From her pale blue living room that doesn’t hide the signs of being lived-in, Jones has been posting music’s salutary effects with her breezy piano playing and raw voice against a backdrop

American musician (born 1979)

Norah Jones (NOR-ə; born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She has won several awards for her music and, as of 2023, had sold more than 53 million records worldwide.Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000s decade. She has won ten Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on Billboard magazine's artists of the '00s decade chart.

In 2002, Jones launched her solo music career with the release of Come Away with Me, which was a fusion of jazz with country, blues, folk and pop. It was certified diamond, selling over 27 million copies. The record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist, making her the first person of South Asian descent to win that many Grammy awards. Her subsequent studio albums Feels Like Home (2004), Not Too Late (2007), and The Fall (2009) all gained platinum status, selling over a million copies each. They were also generally well received by critics. Jones made her feature film debut as an actress in My Blueberry Nights, which was released in 2007 and was directed by Wong Kar-Wai.

Jones is the daughter of Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, and is the half-sister of fellow Indian musicians Anoushka Shankar and Shubhendra Shankar.

Early life

Jones was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979, in Manhattan, New York City, to American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian Bengali musician Ravi Shankar.

After her parents separated in 1986, Jones lived with her mother, growing up in Grapevine, Texas. As a child, Jones began singing in church and also took piano and voice lessons. She and her mother lived in Anchorage, Alaska when she was eleven years old. She attended Grapev