Norah Jones time with him, and wrote some material that was later recorded for the album "The Fall". Ravi Shankar died in 2012. In February 2014, Jones had her first child, a son, with her musician husband. They had a second child in 2016. Norah Jones Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has won many awards and has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. "Billboard" named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade. She has won nine Grammy Awards and was ranked 60th on "Billboard" magazine's artists
Singer-songwriter because it merged the roles of composer, writer, and singer, the popularity of the singer-songwriter reintroduced the Medieval troubadour tradition of "songs with public personalities" after the Tin Pan Alley era in American popular music. Song topics include political protest, as in the case of the Almanac Singers, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. The concept of a singer-songwriter can be traced to ancient bardic oral tradition, which has existed in various forms throughout the world. Poems would be performed as chant or song, sometimes accompanied by a harp or other similar instrument. After the invention of printing, songs would be