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Confession: I only like Norah Jones because so many others told me to

Norah Jones is the darling of Jazz and Audiophile press for a few years.  I've heard her albums, maybe even bought one.  Look, being a musical artist is hard as hell and I can't do it, but I realize in listening to others talk about her that I'm missing something special while listening to her.

Please, without wanting to pile on her, if you love her tell me why.  What has you going about Miss Jones that makes her a standout? No wrong answers.

erik_squires
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jerryg123
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@larsman not true Ravi Shankar was a great sitar player and worked with the Beatles and George Harrison. Many credit him with bringing East Indian music to the mainstream well of sorts.

Ravi and Nora did have a relationship even though Ravis’s relations with her mother were brief at best.

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larsman
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@jerryg123 - what did I say that's not true? I didn't say that I never heard of Ravi Shankar, I said that most of Norah Jones fans likely have not and wouldn't care if they did. 

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jerryg123
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@larsman sorry did not intend to get your colon twisted.

Happy New Year. 

I will leave you be, but as a Fan I know, and I will bet more do know than you think.

Wow!

Have a drink dude. 

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baylinor
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For those who may not know Ravi Shankar, I strongly recommend you watch his performance on the 1968 Monterey pop festival DVD and you will never forget it. 

erik_squires OP
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I could be mistaken, but I'd guess that Norah Jones is so popular that many, if not most of her fans, don't know or care who her father was and many likely have never heard of him. 

@larsman  The question isn't in my mind if her fans know who her father was but rather, would they know of Norah if he wasn't her father?

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