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...Real Norah With a new CD, jazz singer Jones hopes to move beyond the Starbucks hit list...
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 you could avoid Eliminator by staying out of biker bars. Come Away with Me--by virtue of being inoffensive, authentic and really good--was inescapable. If Jones wasn't laying down a mellow vibe for your latte, she was providing the sound track for your dinner party, the theme...
What Jones wanted for Feels like Home was a shot at the life she signed up for originally. Except for an adolescent flirtation with heavy metal--"I loved Motley Crue for a period of about two years," she says--Jones grew up dreaming of being a jazz singer. (Her dedication was such that at the University of North Texas, she recalls taking just two classes outside the jazz-studies major--astronomy and sex ed--and, she says, "I may have dropped both of them.") It wasn't just jazz music that hooked her but also her imagined sense...
While in Houston, Soriano said that he “bumped into” former President George H. W. Bush, singer Beyoncé and rock star Kid Rock...
...Society is really failing our young when a singer can't be considered good unless she/he has to act like a slut to get hit records. No wonder there are so many young kids on drugs, or have AIDS or are alcoholics. MTV teaches them this is okay behavior. Whatever happened to moral values in this country?! Sandra York Kentucky...