“I’ve had a lot of late nights with me and my husband just dancing and cooking,” saysNorah Jones. It’s the end of August, and the 37-year-old singer is tucked into a banquette in the back room of Brooklyn’s Bar Tabac when she drops this bit of domestic intel. Specifically, ...
Jones, who grew up in Texas — her father was the famous sitar playerRavi Shankar, who died in 2012 — lives in New York with her husband, musician Pete Remm, and their 9-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter. She spoke about “Visions” at her man...
Much ofDay Breakswas born in Jones’ kitchen in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, where she keeps a “beautiful art-deco spinet” piano mere feet from her refrigerator, “covered in bills and junk.” It was here that she and her husband started noodling around with ideas that eventually fille...
Jones wishes that she could go back and make a different decision, but it is too late. The speaker proceeds to lament the missed chance with a lover, her regret made evident in the repeated line, “ I don’t know why I didn’t come” (Jones qtd. in Kimbrough). Presented ...
Norah Jones says being a mother has inspired some of her song lyrics.(Joelle Grace Taylor) Has being a mom inspired any songs? Most definitely. I wouldn’t tell you specifically what, because I like dual meanings to things. [My kids] come up with lyric ideas all the time, and they’...
twelve-year-old who loves to travel to unique places. Readers of all ages enjoy following Amanda as she unravels one mystery after another. When not travelling herself, Darlene divides her time between the west coast of Canada and the Costa Blanca, Spain with her husband and entertaining dog,...
"My poetry was kind of dark, but it also had these rhyme schemes that reminded me of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein, which made total sense because I was reading them to my kids every night," says Jones, who shares two young children with her husband Pete Remm. "So I thought it...