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
Ben Rice (producer) part of an album distributed by Republic Records. In 2014 Rice produced, engineered and mixed the full length album Unanchored (Sony/RCA) for Norwegian artist: Silya & the Sailors. Silya's single, Sucka, charted at #1 on iTunes in Norway. Later, Rice produced The Candles: 2016 Matter + Spirit album, which featured the guest vocals of singer/songwriter Norah Jones. Ben Rice (producer) Ben Rice is an American record producer, sound engineer, mixer, songwriter, and musician. Rice owns Degraw Sound, a recording studio in Brooklyn, New York, and is best known for his professional collaborations with musical artists Norah Jones, The Candles, Aoife