Interview with Norah Jones

Fill in the blanks

1. Quiet, slow songs are what made NJ so successful, but some said they ___________________.

2. After her first two albums, one critic wrote that Jones’s success was due to ___________________.
He wrote: You can go to your local Jazz club any night and maybe _________________________.
The songs are for the most part fairly ___________________.

3. What does Norah Jones think of the comment? ___________________.

4. What two reasons does she give for not having achieved what she was going for with her first

album? ___________________ and ___________________.

5. Norah‘s musical roots are ___________________, and ___________________, tastes acquired

growing up in Grapevine, ___________________, listening to her mother’s eclectic
___________________.

True or false

True False

Norah was raised by a single mother.

She grew up in New York.

She has had lots of contact with her father.

She considers herself part Indian.

She moved to Greenwich Village when she was 20.

She waited tables and played and sang in small clubs.

She sold 10.000 copies of her first album.

What words are used in the interview for the following:

accessible
musical performance
from time to time
boring