
The Jones Saga — A Near Fantasy
The child of American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, Jones has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard’s Artists of the 2000-09 Decade chart. “People keep asking me, ‘Aren’t you nervous that people are gonna read [her own life] into all your lyrics?’ I’m like, no, because I know what’s real and what’s not. It’s mostly fantasy.” —Norah Jones Norah Jones, the child of American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who made her illustrious parents proud by striking out on her own, was born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979, at Brooklyn, New York. Anoushka Shankar is her half-sister. Her parents separated in 1986,


