Norah Jones Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar, and is the half-sister of fellow musician Anoushka Shankar. Jones was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979 in Brooklyn, New York, to American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian musician Ravi Shankar. After her parents separated in 1986, Norah lived with her mother, growing up in Grapevine, Texas. She attended Colleyville Middle School and Grapevine High School before transferring to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas. While in high school, she sang in the school choir, participated in
Justin Jones (singer-songwriter) on American Songwriter on May 30, 2012. Finally, “Fading Light” premiered on "The Huffington Post" on August 14, 2012. In August 2016, Justin Jones released his fifth full-length album, "Outgrown". Recorded in Fall and Winter of 2015-16, the album was produced, engineered and mixed entirely by Jones himself. Jones also played lead guitar on the album. The album features John Scoops (bass), Will Waikart (drums), Ryan Walker (organ/backing vocals), Laura Tsaggaris (vocals) and Sarah Curtan (vocals), among others. The album was described by Brightest Young Things as "a full, lived-in record, pulling elements of rock, blues, folk, and country into