Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: A mụrụ Jones Geethali Norah Jones Shankar na Machị 30, 1979 na Manhattan, New York, nye onye na-emepụta egwu egwu America bụ Sue Jones na onye egwu egwu India bụ Ravi Shankar. Mgbe nne na nna ya na-alụbeghị di kewara na 1986, Norah biri na nne ya, na-etolite na Grapevine, Texas. Ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ Colleyville Middle School na Grapevine High School tupu ọ gafee na Booker T. Washington High School maka Performing na Visual Arts na Dallas. Egwú ya bidoro n'oge na Chọọchị Metọdist ebe ọ na-abụ abụ mgbe niile. Mgbe ọ nọ n'ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị, ọ na-abụ abụ n'òtù ukwe ụlọ akwụkwọ, na-esonye n'òtù egwú, ma na-akpọ ụbọ akwara. Mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na isii, na nkwenye nke nne na nna ya, ọ gbanwere aha ya na Norah Jones. Jones nwere mmasị na egwu nke Bill Evans na Billie Holiday, n'etiti ndị ọzọ "oldies". O kwuru otu oge, "Mama m nwere album asatọ a nke Billie Holiday; ahọpụtara m diski m masịrị m ma kpọọ ya ugboro ugboro".Dịka nwatakịrị, Jones malitere ịbụ abụ na chọọchị ma were klaasị na nkuzi olu. Ọ ka na-aga chọọchị. Ọ na-ele onwe ya anya dị ka onye mmụọ ma na-enwe ekele maka emume nke ụka ya mana ọ naghị ele onwe ya anya dị ka onye okpukpe. Ọ gara Interlochen Center for the Arts n'oge ọkọchị. Mgbe ọ nọ n'ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị, ọ meriri Down Beat Student Music Awards maka Best Jazz Vocalist (ugboro abụọ, na 1996 na 1997) na Best Original Composition (1996). Jones gara Mahadum North Texas (UNT), ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na jazz piano ma bụrụ abụ na UNT Jazz Singers. N'oge a, o nwere ohere izute onye ga-eso ya rụọ ọrụ n'ọdịnihu bụ Jesse Harris. Ọ na-akwọ otu òtù egwú na mahadum nke ndị òtù ya bụ ndị enyi Harris. Ya na enyi ya na onye ga-abụ onye òtù Little Willies Richard Julian nọ na njem njem n'okporo ụzọ, wee kwụsị ịhụ ka ndị otu ahụ na-egwu. Mgbe o zutere Jones, Harris bidoro iziga ya mpempe akwụkwọ egwu ya.  Ajụjụ: Olee ụdị ìgwè egwú o nyere ụgbọala ha?
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