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
Diana Jones (singer-songwriter) young Native American girl in the 1920s who is forced to assimilate to a life and culture that is not her own: "Pony" features Ferron on backing vocals. In addition to being nominated for a "Song of the Year" award by the North American Folk Alliance, the song finished the year at number 15 in the 2006 year-end Folk Radio Airplay Chart. In 2007 Jones produced an album of songs written and performed with North Carolina-based songwriter Jonathan Byrd. "Radio Soul" is a stripped down recording featuring the voices and guitars of the two songwriters with little added instrumentation. In