Or at least, she claims Willie Nelson as her mentor.
At 16, Geetali Shankar changed her name to Norah Jones with a nod from her father, renowned sitarist, Ravi Shankar.
(For you crumpet-eating chaps in the back, a sitar is a Middle Eastern banjo-like thing played by dread-head hippies who sip marijuana tea.)
Two years studying jazz piano and Jones quit college.
She moved to Manhattan, joined a band called Wax Poetic, and recorded a demo for acclaimed jazz label, Blue Note.
Like dogs to sirloin, the scouts salivated over Jones' dreamy voice – they rushed her back to the studio to pump out an album.
That first album, incredible. Amazing. Phenomenal! Orgasmic? (Coupled with a bag o' Pop Rocks, yes.)
Come Away with Me scored 5 Grammies, stole Album of the Year and hit number 1 in the charts.
Overnight, Jones struck stardom.
As a side, she was 22, and her only formal voice training was a year in high school choir.
See Norah light Elmo's fire on Sesame Street:
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