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To answer your question, yes, there have been a few occasions over the past two years when Norah Jones walked into Starbucks or the Body Shop and was serenaded by the sound of her own voice. "I've managed to avoid it to a point," Jones says, "but it has...
Jones sold 8 million copies of Come Away with Me, her lovely, unpretentious 2002 debut. While that's an incredible figure for an album by a previously unknown jazz pianist and singer, it does not really convey the extent of Jones' ubiquity. ZZ Top once sold 8 million records, but...
Being a friend to all can be a terrible burden, and inevitably there were those who found Jones' gentle omnipresence and memorable bio--her father is sitar legend Ravi Shankar, 83--a bit cloying. Skeptics were soon interpreting enthusiasm as hype and positing that Come Away with Me was merely...
Secretly, Jones loved both the nickname ("My mom calls me Snorah all the time now") and the burgeoning consensus that her popularity had peaked. "It had all gotten way too crazy," says Jones. "I'm not saying I didn't want any of it or that I think I'm...
Jones, 24, is musing about her future for a reason. She has a new album, Feels like Home, coming out on Feb. 10, and she would really like her voice not to be heard everywhere all the time. Luckily, she now has enough control to prevent such a thing from...