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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Segalov

Norah Jones: ‘When I met Ray Charles I couldn’t stop crying’

‘It was obvious early on that I would be a musician’: Norah Jones.
‘It was obvious early on that I would be a musician’: Norah Jones. Photograph: Joelle Grace Taylor

My earliest memory is of a dream I had aged three: standing in the park near my New York daycare, I bit my lip, and it came straight off like Play-Doh. Weird, right?

Mum raised me – she was a fierce, strong woman. She worked a lot, so I was always in classes: diving, piano, art and pottery. Mum often said she wanted to give me the childhood she wished she’d had. I only saw Dad [composer Ravi Shankar] occasionally in my early years. When I was 18 we properly connected.

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