Norah Jones has produced music since her breakthrough debut album of 2002, Come Away With Me. Since then she has continued creating solo recordings, occasional collaborations (such as those with Ryan Adams and Okkervil River), film/TV soundtrack contributions as well as film scoring credits.

Norah hails from Grapevine, Texas where she studied music at the University of North Texas before making the move to New York City and forming a band with Jesse Harris.

She’s a multi-GRAMMY winning singer and pianist

Come Away With Me provided comfort to a nation after 9/11, establishing Jones as an authentic singer who could understand classic rendition. Since then, Jones from Grapevine, Texas has released six more albums and is considered one of our most revered contemporary artists.

Jones graduated from Colleyville Middle School and Grapevine High School before attending the University of North Texas to study jazz piano with Professor Peter Davison and perform with the UNT Jazz Singers. She later relocated to New York City where she formed a band alongside Jesse Harris and Lee Alexander musicians.

Blue Note Records soon signed her up, after they recorded and performed for Blue Note Records as part of the group, in January 2001. Since then she has collaborated with various artists – Ryan Adams of Okkervil River fame as well as guitarist Charlie Hunter’s Songs From the Analog Playground album are just a few to name.

She’s a mother of two

Norah Jones stands apart from her peers by keeping a low profile offstage. Her family life includes raising two sons with husband Pete Remm in Brooklyn while homeschooling their children and taking advantage of NYC’s vibrant cultural scene.

Jones was raised in Grapevine, Texas, and attended Dallas’s Booker T Washington High School for the Performing Arts where she took voice lessons and sang in choir. Daughter of legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and American Sue Jones, she studied jazz piano at University of North Texas.

After performing in a funk-fusion band called Wax Poetic, she was offered a sublet in Greenwich Village during the summer of 1999 and never went back to college. Recording an appearance for NPR’s First Times series featuring artists destined to achieve greatness further propelled her career; eventually releasing her debut album Come Away With Me two years later.

She’s a singer-songwriter

Norah Jones is a multi-GRAMMY Award winning singer-songwriter who first gained attention with her album Come Away With Me released in 2002. Her musical style blends contemporary jazz with folk and country influences for an engaging listening experience.

Begun singing church choirs at age five, she then took piano lessons two years later. While attending college at University of North Texas she won Down Beat Student Music Awards twice for Best Jazz Vocalist and Original Composition. Moving to New York City she worked waiting tables in Greenwich Village clubs while gigging with her band.

Since her breakthrough, she’s released six albums of her own and appeared on tracks by various other artists. Visions is her latest offering produced and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels.

On this week’s World Cafe episode, Norah welcomes Rufus Wainwright as their guest. They exchange stories, duet on an old classic tune and discuss how important family is in both their careers.

She’s a podcaster

Norah Jones has achieved that dream and more – she is a multi-GRAMMY winning musician who has become one of the most well-known and sought-after artists today.

Come Away With Me was released in 2002 to critical acclaim and was soon followed by Feels Like Home (2004) and Not Too Late in 2007.

Norah talks on this episode of Pushkin about altering her studio process, working with Jeff Tweedy and Danger Mouse, as well as meeting Laufey, an Icelandic singer-songwriter with a honey voice who has earned herself a GRAMMY nod and amassed millions of fans on TikTok.

Norah Jones Is Playing Along is a weekly series in which Norah meets with one or more musical guests – from Questlove and Mavis Staples to Logic – for candid conversations and improvised performances.