“It’s so great when you discover somebody’s music…I was probably 21 years old before I really listened to Neil Young. Your limitations create your sound,” Jones told us in May of 2007. It’s because I don’t really have the chops. The reason isn’t because I wanted to make simple music. “My first two records are so simply constructed. Over the past 10-years, Norah has diversified and expanded her musical tastes.
With such success in a genre apart from her contemporaries, Norah could have easily fallen into the typecasting trap-dismissed as niche singer, a passing trend. As Dimitri Ehrlich noted when Interview first met Norah in March of 2002, “ has what the world needs now: Music that works like a time machine, transporting listeners to an era long before anyone had every thought of SUVs.” How did a 22-year-old have such an old soul? “I’ve always listened to older music, like Billy Holiday or Ray Charles, so maybe that has something to do with it,” offered Jones.
Jones was at the forefront of a new old-world jazz trend a very adult-seeming alternative to the juvenile pop-rock dominating the charts in the early 2000s. Ten years ago, when Norah Jones was a mere 22, her first album, Come Away with Me (2002), won five Grammy awards and went “diamond.” Yes, there’s a level above multi-platinum it’s called diamond, and it means an album sold over 10 million copies in the US alone (approximately 20 million in the case of Come Away). We’ve met quite a few characters over the decades, but here are some of our favorite interviewees and icons, artists who never shied away from marching to the beat of their own drum. With the 75th anniversary of the iconic sunglasses manufacturer, Ray-Ban underway, INTERVIEW celebrates the NEVER HIDE moments of a few influential leaders in art, fashion, music and film.
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