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Norah Jones

The New York Times

Artikler om Norah Jones fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 22. april 2012
  • MUSIC; Best Part of the Breakup: New Songs

    AT 6 p.m. on a Tuesday in mid-March the people streaming into the Living Room, a Lower East Side club geared to singer-songwriters, weren't there for happy hour. Word had quietly gone out to friends and associates that Norah Jones and her band would be performing songs from her new album, ''Little Broken Hearts,'' and the small room was packed....

  • TEXAS MONTHLY; Norah Jones and the Music She Loves

    It took Norah Jones precisely one year to become a household name. Her debut album, ''Come Away With Me,'' was released in February 2002, and by the following February it had sold four million copies and she had won five Grammys. A side project she created the following year is less well known. As a diversion from the pressures of following up one...

  • MUSIC REVIEW | NORAH JONES; From a Cooing Voice, New Moods and Knots

    Norah Jones had just finished oozing her way through ''Sunrise'' on Saturday night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden when an audience member piped up with some surprising news. ''Did you just say you made a baby to that song?'' Ms. Jones asked. The response was affirmative. ''I'm not so sure how I feel about that,'' she continued. ''I'm...

Wikipedia

Norah Jones, (født 30. marts 1979 i New York), hvis fulde navn er Geetali Norah Jones Shankar, er en amerikansk sanger, pianist og sangskriver. I 2002 fik hun internationalt gennembrud med Come away with me. Musik stilen er pop med indslag af soul og jazz.

Hendes far er Ravi Shankar, indisk sitarspiller. Bedst kendt bl.a. fra sin deltagelse i Woodstock festivalen i 1969, endvidere for sit samarbejde med George Harrison.

I 2007 tog hendes karriere en ny drejning, da hun fik tilbudt en rolle i en film kaldet Blueberry Nights af den kinesiske instruktør Kar Wai Wong. Filmen blev nomineret til de gyldne palmer.

Hun opdtrådte til Apples begivenhed, "Celebrating Steve", der var en hyldest til Steve Jobs efter hans død. Steve Jobs skulle angiveligt have været stor fan af Jones.

Diskografi

  • Come Away With Me, 2002
  • Feels Like Home, 2004
  • Not Too Late, 2007
  • The Fall, 2009
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Det mener man om hendes stemme

NY Daily News

 

"Når Jones synger ... kan du høre ekkoer af hendes stemme, ligesom Billie Holiday, Nina Simone og Joni Mitchell, blande sig i hendes imponerende, substantive stemme som vil skabe noget der er helt hendes eget."

Los Angeles Times

 

"En talentfuld nyankommet som investerer sin sang med en skarphed der minder om Eva Cassidy."

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