Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on 30^th March 1979 to concert producer Sue Jones and the world famous Grammy Award-winning sitar player Ravi Shankar, Norah Jones learned to sing and took piano lessons at a young age. She eventually majored in jazz piano at the University of North Texas and worked as a lounge singer for a couple of years before signing with Blue Note Records as a solo artist in late 2000.

After releasing the EP This Is My Time in 2001, Jones shot to fame a year later with the release of her debut contemporary jazz album Come Away with Me. The record debuted at the top of the US Billboard 200 chart, with the single Don’t Know Why reaching number 25 on the singles chart. The release earned Jones eight Grammy Awards, including for Best New Artist, Album of the Year and Record of the Year (Don’t Know Why), and has sold in excess of 22 million copies to date.

Jones’ second album, Feels Like Home, was also an enormous success, selling over a million copies in the first week of its US release and eventually shipping over ten million copies worldwide. The album produced the smash hit single Sunrise and earned Jones another three Grammy Award nominations, winning one for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Sunrise).

The singer’s third album Not Too Late followed in 2007. It reached the number one position in twenty countries around the world, including the US, UK and Germany, and eventually sold over six million copies. It also produced the singles Thinking About You, Not Too Late, Sinkin’ Soon and Until the End.

Her latest album, 2009’s The Fall, reached number three in the US and produced the singles Chasing Pirates, Young Blood and Stuck. Jones began her fourth world tour in March 2010.