![]() With her intimate voice and intimate, low-key style, Norah Jones became a bona fide global sensation following Come Away With Me. Listen to the deluxe edition of Day Breaks on Apple Music and Spotify. It kick-started an astonishing and varied career which has seen Jones veer into country, blues, indie, and folk-rock, and, with her 2016 album, Day Breaks, return to her jazz home. And, lest we forget, Come Away With Me netted Jones an astonishing four Grammy awards, including one for Album Of The Year. ![]() Her name, of course, is Norah Jones, and her debut album for Blue Note, Come Away With Me, proved to be a remarkable one – not just for the fact that it was an alluring collection of performances from a gifted young singer and pianist who was later revealed to be the daughter of noted Indian musician Ravi Shankar, but also because it captured the attention of millions of people around the world (initially aided by the appeal of the single “Don’t Know Why”) and achieved gold, platinum, and even diamond sales figures. One of the undoubted musical high points of 2002 was the arrival of a young chanteuse from Texas who sang mellow, jazz-inflected pop with a perceptible country twang in her voice.
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