Actress Nora Chirner: biography, career, personal life. Further career development

12.06.2019

Nora Miao was born in Hong Kong on January 31, 1952 as Chan Wing-Man. There was another future filmmaker in the family - her brother, actor, director and screenwriter Ricky Chan. She graduated from St. Rose College and in 1970 began working at the Golden Harvest film studio.

The filmography of this bright beauty is not too extensive, but she is world famous thanks to the performance of the main female roles in the 1972 Bruce Lee films "Fist of Fury" and "The Way of the Dragon", an episode in "Big Boss" and the title of "the only girl who kissed on screen with the great Bruce." Bruce's films are dominated by men, and it was Nora who had the mission to give them a soft sheen with her beauty and grace, which she successfully coped with.

She has never been married, it is only known that during the "Taiwanese" period of her career she had whirlwind romance with one of famous actors Taiwan, but, unfortunately, after 2 years they broke up. Nora sighs and frowns at all the talk about the past. She knew Bruce Lee from childhood - their mothers were friends. Rumors about their special relationship with the great master, Nora does not comment in any way, motivating this by the fact that no matter what she says, people will judge in their own way. She only says: “All these years I have been living in his shadow…”

Even her sobs at Bruce's funeral were misinterpreted by some, though they were, she said, tears of "filial respect." Of course, Bruce Lee for her was the most important person in films, and who knows how Miao's career would have developed had it not been for his early death in 1973.

While none of Bruce's films gave Nora a chance to show off her fighting prowess, more early roles on Golden Harvest ("The Comet Strikes", "The Invincible Eight", "The Blade Spares None", all 1971), she convincingly played fencing heroines in the style of Shaw Brothers star Chen Pei-Pei.

The actress got the chance to show off her kung fu skills in director Lo Wei's semi-official sequel The New Fist of Fury (1976). Filming took place in Taiwan leading role very few people played back then. famous Jackie Chan. Nora starred with him in several more films by Lo Wei - "Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin" (1978), "Dragon Fist" (1979).

Nora also had a two-movie deal with Shaw Brothers director Chor Yuen, Killing the Jaguar with Tony Liu and Intrigue Clan with studio superstar Ti Lung. Both films are based on the works of Taiwanese writer Ku Long. Nora Miao's list of 1970s films also includes dramatic roles - the object of praise for Sammo Hung and Carter Wong in Skyhawk (1974) - and comedies such as Naughty! Naughty!" (1974).

After leaving Golden Harvest in the mid-1970s, she worked as a television actress and presenter. In the early 1980s, Miao left the film industry and moved to Canada, where she became a DJ on Toronto Chinese Radio and hosted a cooking talk show.

Once Nora was called from Hong Kong by producer Willie Chan with a proposal for cooperation, then Sylvia Chang called - she was going to shoot "Run Rara Run" and invited Nora to play the role of the mother of the triad boss - the hero Louis Koo. Miao asked her, “Are you not afraid that I have forgotten how to act and that I won’t be able to play the part?” To which Sylvia replied: “You are so simple and sincere, this is your role!” And Sylvia's intuition did not let her down - her role in "Run Rara Run" (2008) brought Nora Miao the title of Best Supporting Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Dashing trouble start - In 2010, the actress brilliantly performed another dramatic role in the movie "Merry-Go-Round".

The actress was pleasantly surprised by how the ways and pace of filmmaking and even the film people themselves have changed. But most of all she was surprised and moved by the fact that she is still remembered and loved in Hong Kong! Thus, the fate of Nora Miao became another confirmation of the old truth - you can’t escape the calling ...

Short form of the name Nora. Norin, Nori, Noni, Ennot, Annot, Enot, Anot, Norata, Norita, Enorig.
Synonyms for Nora. Honor, Annora, Ennora, Eleanor, Honorata, Honorina, Honoria, Honoria, Honoria, Honoria, Honorina, Honorina, Enora, Enored.
Origin of the name Nora The name Nora is English, Catholic.

The name Nora has several versions of origin. According to the first version, the name Nora is English and Irish. woman's name, comes from the Anglo-Norman name Honoria or Honora. The name Honoria, Honora (Honorata) comes from the Latin word "honor", which means "honor", "honor", "honor", therefore the name Nora is translated as "revered", "important". From Scandinavian there is a translation - "cold".

According to the second version, the name Nora is an abbreviated form of the name Eleanor, but is also used as a diminutive address to Minodora, Noyabrina. The name Nora is also an independent name.

The name Nora (Nurah) is also in Arabic, it means "light".

Nora's name is not mentioned in Orthodox saints, for the name Nora, the Catholic name days of Honora (Honorates) will be indicated.

Girl Nora is a very bright, friendly and sociable person. For everyone she will seem very charming, but Nora does not seek to reveal her plans to everyone and rarely allows anyone into her inner world. The owner of this name knows how to keep up the conversation on almost any topic, while she can very skillfully avoid answering tricky and provocative questions. When Nora is nervous, she can become very direct in her judgments.

Nora strives to please everyone. She takes care of herself very carefully, prefers to position herself as a successful woman with prosperity. Therefore, she seeks to find a wealthy husband, occupying a high position in society. It is preferable not to give up anything in this life, loves comfort and luxury.

People around can see in Nora a proud woman, even rather proud. Many would say about her that she is a real egoist. But the firmness of her intentions, perseverance, standing her ground is the result of upbringing. From childhood, she is taught to achieve what she wants not by whims, but by willpower, the ability to competently manipulate people. There is no equal in this Nora.

Nora is very independent, independent. But still, there is a dream and romance in it. Nora is full of optimism, always cheerful, has a great sense of humor. They try to invite her to all parties and soirees, because she can make any boring evening fun and interesting. But Nora can be very reckless, it is worth distracting her from such entertainment, directing her to gain knowledge and certain useful skills that will be useful in the future. But it will not be very easy to do this, since Nora is easily infected with ideas, but she doesn’t always have time to finish the job, as she easily switches to a new idea.

Nora is very creative person sometimes even avant-garde. For those around her, the true intentions are elusive, she is attracted by the non-standard, she does not recognize stereotypes. Nora can feel very deeply, she is emotional, but she will never show true feelings, will carefully hide them.

With all this, Nora is a very pragmatic woman. It has a commercial property. She can focus on teaching or go into the commercial sector - she will be comfortable everywhere. She has a penchant for languages, she loves to sing, dance, often participates in theatrical performances. The professions of a reporter, journalist, actress are very suitable for her, or it is worth connecting the profession with travel, advertising, organizing events, where everything changes and develops quickly. She really does not like to participate in any event for a long time, preferring to change them.

Nora's name day

Notable people named Nora

Nora Gal ((1912 - 1991) real name - Eleonora Galperina; Soviet translator from English and French, literary critic and translation theorist, editor. She became famous for her translation " little prince» Saint-Exupéry, The Outsider by Camus, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and works of world fiction.)
Nora Gregor ((1901 - 1949) full name- Eleanor Hermine Gregor film and theater actress, starred in silent and sound films. Her most notable work is the role of Christine in Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game (1939). She was married to Prince Ernst Rüdiger Staremberg, Vice-Chancellor of Austria from 1934-1936.)
Nora Nielson Gray ((1882 - 1931) Scottish portrait painter)
Nora-Jane Noon ((born 1984) Irish actress. Debut role in the movie there was the role of Bernadette in the film by Peter Mullan "The Magdalen Sisters" (2002). Film Won Grand Prize Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2002, and Noon won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress in an Ensemble Role.)
Norah Jones ((born 1979) full name - Geethali Norah Jones Shankar (Shankar); American pop-jazz singer and pianist, author and performer of her own songs, actress)
Nora Angela Zehetner ((born 1981) American actress)
Nora Novik ((1941 - 2009) pianist, Honored Artist of the Latvian SSR, member of the duet "Riga Piano Duo")
Nora Roberts (famous American writer, author of modern romance and detective novels)
Nora Orlandi ((born 1933) Italian pop singer)
Nora Salinas ((born 1976) Mexican film actress)
Nora Hoffmann ((born 1985) is a Hungarian figure skater who performed in ice dancing. With her first partner, Attila Elek, she is a five-time Hungarian champion and two-time silver medalist of the World Junior Championships, as well as winners of the Junior Grand Prix finals. In a duet with an American figure skater Russian origin- Maxim Zavozin, she is a three-time champion of Hungary.)
Nora Marie Tschirner ((born 1981) German actress and presenter)
Nora Ephron ((born 1941) American director, producer, screenwriter, short story writer, journalist, writer and blogger; best known for her romantic comedies and is a three-time Oscar nominee for Best Original Screenplay (films Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally" and "Sleepless in Seattle"))
Nora Borges, actually Leonor Fanny Borges Acevedo ((1901 - 1998) Argentine artist, younger sister of Jorge Luis Borges)
Nora Hoffmann (Hoffman) ((born 1985) Hungarian figure skater)
Nora Ananieva ((born 1938) Bulgarian politician)
Nora Astorga Gadea ((1948 - 1988) Nicaraguan revolutionary, member of the FSLN. After the victory of the Sandinista revolution - lawyer, judge and political figure and Representative of Nicaragua to the UN (1986-1988).)
Maya-Nora Tabaka ((born 1939) Latvian artist, painter. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, Member trade union Artists of Russia, People's Artist of the USSR. Illustrator of children's books. Tabaka's works are kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Peter Ludwig Collection, the Berlin National Gallery, the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, and others. Director Hertz Frank made the documentary film Maya Tabaka.)
Nora Tschirner ((born 1981) German film actress and TV presenter)
Nora Yuga ((born 1931) Romanian poetess, writer and translator)
Nora Brokstedt ((born 1923) Norwegian pop singer)

Other

In 2002, there was no star in the United States brighter than Norah Jones. sweet creature 23 years old with a meek look and an angelic voice paralyzed the imagination of the listeners, tired of Britney Spears' stamping and Pink's masculinity. The illusion of home comfort emanated from this soft singing and simple melodies, nostalgia for youth and eternal values.

Whether it was the cause of general insanity or something else, but the popularity of the young singer grew like a snowball from the mountain and eventually covered even die-hard academics, who every year arrange an exhibition of musical achievements called the Grammy. Eight gramophones, of which five are due to Nora's personal merits - not every beginner can do this. And if you consider that Norah Jones is not a representative of the world of pop music, then the excitement around her debut album seems even more incredible. "Come Away With Me", released on the famous jazz label Blue Note, is not jazz in the usual sense. But what is it, let's try to find out together ...

Norah Jones was born on March 30, 1979 in New York. An undisclosed detail of the biography - Nora is native daughter legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, but prefers not to talk about his famous father. Due to the fact that he does not want to use his name to build his own career - this is, firstly, and secondly, because he hardly knows his father. Nora's mother Sue Jones, who worked as a dancer in her youth, broke up with Ravi Shankar when Nora was just a child. According to the singer, until the moment when she was nine years old, she saw her father ten times at most. The next meeting took place in 1997, when Nora was introduced to her half-sister, 16-year-old Anushka Shankar, who, like her father, is a sitar player. But before that time, much more happened that cannot be ignored if we want to know about the origins of Norah Jones's talent.

When Nora was four years old, her mother moved the girl to the oil capital of America - Dallas, Texas. The family settled in the suburb of Gravepine, where Sue Jones got a job as a nurse, and little Nora went to a comprehensive school. First musical impressions future star associated with this period. “My mother had an extensive record collection,” the singer recalls. — Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Frederic Chopin, Billie Holiday... Billie Holiday was my childhood idol. When I was five years old, I kept putting on the same record and playing it over and over again. 'You Come To My Head' was my favorite song."

Now Nora, analyzing her childhood years, wonders where her love for jazz could come from: her mother loved to listen to soul and country music, and jazz records were out of the question - only Nora listened to them. “I don’t know, it probably happened after my mother took me to a concert of some big band,” says the singer. — I found this music interesting and cool, I had never heard anything like it before. Mom always listened to rhythm and blues and soul, but very rarely jazz. After that concert, I wanted to study jazz and then even tried to learn how to play the saxophone.”

Be that as it may, at the age of five Nora began to sing in the choir, and at seven she began to take piano lessons. When the young "jazz player" turned 15, the family moved to downtown Dallas and the girl entered the Booker T Washington High School for Performing & Visual Arts for a jazz piano course. During her studies at this school, the young performer received her first serious awards: in 1996, she won the Down Beat Student Music Awards as the “best jazz vocalist” and the author of the “best original composition”. And in 1997, Nora received another SMA - also as the "best vocalist."

After graduating from high school, Norah Jones continued her musical studies at the University of North Texas, where she combined piano taming with evening performances in clubs. “I used to sing jazz standards in restaurants and the audience always wanted something from Sinatra,” says Nora. - But one song I never allowed myself to perform - "My Way". She sounds amazing performed by Sinatra, but I would look like an idiot. I'm only 20, I have no moral right to perform this song!

In 1999, the young singer came to New York to gain experience, and in the end she stayed there. “New York impressed me with its developed and diverse scene,” the girl says. “It was so impressive that I decided to plunge into this atmosphere as deeply as possible.” At first, after moving to the "capital of the world", Norah Jones was listed as the full-time vocalist of the funk band Wax Poetic, but soon formed her own group, which included bassist Lee Alexander (Lee Alexander), guitarist Jesse Harriss (Jesse Harriss) and drummer Dan Reaser (Dan Rieser). According to legend, the lucky bird visited the performer on the eve of her 21st birthday. The talent scout Blue Note, who was present at the band's concert that day, took a demo from the musicians and presented it to the label's president, Bruce Lundvall. “She sings like an angel, and she plays the piano as if she touches the keys with feathers,” Lundvall will respond about her young protégé a little later.

However, at least another year passed before the band signed a contract. The famous producer Arif Mardin, who previously worked with Aretha Franklin and the Modern Jazz Orchestra, was recruited to record the singer's debut album.

Blue Note, along with Verve, is one of the most famous jazz labels, so the decision to work with Norah Jones may have come as a surprise to jazz connoisseurs. However, there is nothing surprising in this: initially it was assumed that Nora would perform jazz standards, as she did in clubs and restaurants. But it didn't work out as planned. The singer and her musicians also dabbled in writing music, and their work teetered on the edge of jazz, blues, country and soul. As a result, the album included author's compositions and several cover versions. And the discordant reaction to the music of Norah Jones by jazz critics can only be explained by the group's departure from the strict framework of jazz compositions. This also explains the incredible success with the audience: Norah Jones combined the seemingly impossible: jazz and country, blues and soul.

The resulting result delighted worldly-wise music lovers. Even before the release of the debut album, Rolling Stone magazine included the name of Norah Jones in the top ten new musicians who "must have listened to in 2002". Critics hit the bull's-eye, as they say. And, perhaps, it was at the suggestion of Rolling Stone that the avalanche of rumors moved, which subsequently covered him with his head (see the first paragraph).

The debut album, named after one of the songs "Come Away With Me", was released on February 26, 2002. It cannot be said that he produced the effect of an exploding bomb - the fame of the new "star" diverged in concentric circles, like from a stone thrown into the water, involving more and more fans. Having started its journey from the bottom positions of the charts (in England, for example, the disc debuted at 108th place), by the end of the year "Come Away With Me" reached the top of the American Billboard. And after receiving eight Grammys in February 2002 (including as "record of the year" and "album of the year"), he also topped the charts in Great Britain and Canada. The album is currently certified platinum in the Netherlands, Australia, Portugal, Hong Kong, 2x platinum in the UK, Ireland and Singapore, and 5x platinum in New Zealand. Norah Jones' debut disc has a combined worldwide circulation of five million copies, an incredible figure for Blue Note, whose accountants are pleased when the disc sells ten thousand copies. “There is only live music in this album, no electronics, which is the sin of modern music. I'm not saying that it's bad, I even like electronic music. But that's not what I'm inspired by. This record sounds a little “timeless” because we used equipment that was in use about 30 years ago, ”the singer tries to explain the success of her album.

It must be admitted that the risk of the President of Blue Note was justified, Lundvall can be proud - he guessed the talent. And Norah Jones, for her part, is very grateful to Blue Note for the freedom that she would hardly have received by signing a contract with a major label. “When I first came into contact with Blue Note, I was afraid that these jazz purists would make fun of me, because what I play is not jazz. I know it and they know it. But the last thing I wanted was to be on a pop label, because I knew how it would turn out. I didn't want to make a video, I didn't want to be expected to sell millions of copies. I didn't want to be a celebrity. I wanted to be something like Gorillaz... But people who work here, first of all, LOVE music. Pop music is great, but I never saw or wanted to see myself as a part of this world. I'm on a label that has nothing to do with the world of pop music. They don’t tell me how to dress, how to behave and what to do.”

“I'm not a poseur, I'm not trying to be someone I'm not really. I find it funny when people try to pose and defend the "purity of jazz" - it's stupid. Relax, does it matter? Blue Note will not lose its integrity by signing me to a label! And I don't care what people think. Blue Note is a famous jazz label and I was introduced to them as a jazz standard performer. When we were working on the album, I started writing my own songs and these are not jazz compositions. I'm in no hurry to announce that I don't sing jazz or anything like that anymore. It's not true, but even that doesn't matter. It's just music. I know many jazz fans will say about my songs: “No, this is not jazz”. And I agree with this. But if anyone thinks it's jazz, they should listen to Miles Davis..."

“I was lucky. It's a real happiness to feel supported by people who don't want to exploit you, who love music and don't measure it with money. It's a fortune that not many get."

The greatest joy for Norah Jones is performing in different countries world, in small clubs and festival venues. In the spring of 2003, the singer will perform at the famous jazz festival in Monterrey - despite the fact that "she does not perform jazz." Although - what does it matter? It's just the music that Norah Jones wholeheartedly gives to her listeners. This sincerity and childlike spontaneity and attract, probably, her fans. current and hopefully future.

Today, the heroine of our life story is the talented actress Nora Tschirner. The films for which she became famous are "Handsome", "Handsome 2". What is remarkable about her biography, how did an ordinary girl from Germany achieve success?

Childhood and youth

The full name of the actress is Nora Maria Tschirner. She was born in Berlin in 1981, on June 12th. Nora was destined to become an actress, because her parents were talented and famous people, father - director and screenwriter documentaries and my mother was a radio host.

Nora Chirner was youngest child in the family, she has two older brothers. The girl studied at the John Lennon Gymnasium in Berlin, and it was there that she became friends with Sarah Kuttner.

As a child, Nora not only dreamed of becoming an actress, but also made many efforts to achieve what she wanted. She played in the school theater, and in 1997 starred in a children's TV series. Also, from the age of sixteen, the girl began to participate in various television shows.

In 2001, the stubborn girl took part in the casting for the role of the leading German version of MTV, and passed it successfully. Having taken the desired place, she became a very popular TV presenter.

Further career development

In the same 2001, when Nora Chirner became the host music program, she decided to try her hand at cinema. Her first roles can be seen in the films Kebab, Like Fire and Flame, Sharks of the Feather.

The young actress did not stop at acting in films, and by the age of 22 she was successfully working at the Hamburg Drama Theater.

By the age of 23, Tschirner had become one of the most talented young German actresses. She constantly shone fashion magazines, she was interviewed numerous times, she took the first lines in the ratings of the most beautiful, popular actresses.

The actress played one of her main roles at the age of twenty-six in the dramatic film The Rise of the Borgia. Here she brought to life the image of the young mistress of Pope Alexander VI.

Peak of popularity

Nora Tschirner became truly popular after the release of the comedy "Pretty Boy" in 2007. The actress played the main role of a girl who was once offended by a handsome man, played by Til Schweiger. The film tells the story of the revenge of a girl who, by chance, met her offender again in kindergarten, where the same man worked out his sins - a journalist who caused moral harm to a friend. Revenge becomes problematic, since this offender is already very attractive!

The film was not expected to be a huge success, but it did happen. Thanks to a bright role, an excellent game, Nora Tschirner became popular not only in Germany, but also far beyond its borders.

Following "Handsome", "Handsome-2" was filmed, and offers to act in film simply fell on talented actress. In 2013, she received leading roles in the films Everyone Dies Someday and Girl on a Bicycle.

Also, Nora can be seen in the films "Country Crocodiles", "Killing is my strong point, dear", "Vicki the little viking", "Bon Appetit", and several television series.

Nora Tschirner: personal life

Nora is a real polyglot, she was fond of learning languages from her youth and today she is fluent in Spanish, English and Russian.

Her life is full, she often travels, and not only on duty, but just like that, for communication. Parties and clubs do not attract the young actress. She attends social events, and very rarely her friends can force her to relax in the club. Nora Tschirner prefers measured and relaxing holiday at home or on some coast. She loves to solve puzzles, including crosswords.

In her circle, Nora is reputed to be an intelligent and well-read woman, of which there are not so many in the star guild.

Still not very fond of covering her personal life Nora Chirner. Husband, family, children, grandmothers and other relatives of a celebrity, according to the actress, should not be in the public domain. She prefers to leave everything intimate details behind the scenes and don't talk about it with anyone other than your best friend.

Nora is still friends with Sarah Kuttner, whom she met back in school years. Sarah also became an actress, and the girls remain inseparable, proving to everyone that true friendship, even female, happens!

While the actress long time not filmed anywhere. We hope to see new films with her participation soon!

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Biography, Life Story of Norah Jones

In 2002, there was no star in the United States brighter than Norah Jones. A sweet 23-year-old creature with a meek look and an angelic voice paralyzed the imagination of listeners tired of Britney Spears' stamping and Pink's masculinity. This soft singing and simple melodies gave the illusion of home comfort, nostalgia for youth and eternal values.

Norah Jones was born on March 30, 1979 in New York. An undisclosed biography detail - Nora is the daughter of the legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, but prefers not to talk about her famous father. Due to the fact that he does not want to use his name to build his own career - this is, firstly, and secondly, because he hardly knows his father. Nora's mother Sue Jones, who worked as a dancer in her youth, broke up with Ravi Shankar when Nora was just a child. According to the singer, until the moment when she was nine years old, she saw her father ten times at most. The next meeting took place in 1997, when Nora was introduced to her half-sister, 16-year-old Anushka Shankar, who, like her father, is a sitar player. But before that time, much more happened that cannot be ignored if we want to know about the origins of Norah Jones's talent.

When Nora was four years old, her mother moved the girl to the oil capital of America - Dallas, Texas. The family settled in the suburb of Gravepine, where Sue Jones got a job as a nurse, and little Nora went to a comprehensive school. The first musical impressions of the future star are associated with this period. “My mother had an extensive record collection,” the singer recalls. - Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Frederic Chopin, Billie Holiday... Billie Holiday was my childhood idol. When I was five years old, I kept putting on the same record and playing it over and over again. "You Come To My Head" was my favorite song."

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Now Nora, analyzing her childhood years, wonders where her love for jazz could come from: her mother loved to listen to soul and country music, and jazz records were out of the question - only Nora listened to them. “I don’t know, it probably happened after my mother took me to a concert of some big band,” the singer says. - I found this music interesting and cool, I had never heard anything like it before. Mom always listened to rhythm and blues and soul, but very rarely - jazz. After that concert, I wanted to study jazz and then even tried to learn how to play the saxophone.”

After graduating from high school, Norah Jones continued her musical studies at the University of North Texas, where she combined piano taming with evening performances in clubs. "I sang jazz standards in restaurants and the audience always wanted something from Sinatra," says Nora. - But I never allowed myself to perform one song - “My Way”. She sounds amazing performed by Sinatra, but I would look like an idiot. I'm only 20, I have no moral right to perform this song!

In 1999, the young singer came to New York to gain experience, and in the end she stayed there. “New York impressed me with its developed and diverse scene,” she says. “It was so impressive that I decided to plunge into this atmosphere as deeply as possible.” At first, after moving to the "capital of the world", Norah Jones was listed as the full-time vocalist of the funk band Wax Poetic, but soon formed her own group, which included bassist Lee Alexander (Lee Alexander), guitarist Jesse Harriss (Jesse Harriss) and drummer Dan Reaser (Dan Rieser). According to legend, the lucky bird visited the performer on the eve of her 21st birthday. The talent scout Blue Note, who was present at the band's concert that day, took a demo from the musicians and presented it to the label's president, Bruce Lundvall. “She sings like an angel, and she plays the piano as if she touches the keys with feathers,” Lundvall will say about her young protégé a little later.

The debut album, named after one of the songs "Come Away With Me", was released on February 26, 2002. It cannot be said that he produced the effect of an exploding bomb - the fame of the new "star" diverged in concentric circles, like from a stone thrown into the water, involving more and more fans. Having started its journey from the bottom positions of the charts (in England, for example, the disc debuted at 108th place), by the end of the year "Come Away With Me" reached the top of the American Billboard. And after receiving eight Grammys in February 2002 (including as "record of the year" and "album of the year"), he also topped the charts in Great Britain and Canada. The album is currently certified platinum in the Netherlands, Australia, Portugal, Hong Kong, 2x platinum in the UK, Ireland and Singapore, and 5x platinum in New Zealand. Norah Jones' debut disc has a total worldwide circulation of five million, an incredible number for Blue Note, whose accountants are pleased when the disc sells ten thousand copies. “There is only live music in this album, no electronics, which is the sin of modern music. I'm not saying that it's bad, I even like electronic music. But that's not what I'm inspired by. This record sounds a little “out of time” because we used equipment that was in use about 30 years ago,” the singer tries to explain the success of her album.

It must be admitted that the risk of the president of Blue Note was justified, Lundvall can be proud - he guessed the talent. And Norah Jones, for her part, is very grateful to Blue Note for the freedom that she would hardly have received by signing a contract with a major label. “When I first came into contact with Blue Note, I was afraid that these jazz purists would make fun of me, because what I play is not jazz. I know it and they know it. But the last thing I wanted was to be on a pop label, because I knew how it would turn out. I didn't want to make a video, I didn't want to be expected to sell millions of copies. I didn't want to be a celebrity. I wanted to be something like Gorillaz... But people who work here, first of all, LOVE music. Pop music is great, but I never saw or wanted to see myself as a part of this world. I'm on a label that has nothing to do with the world of pop music. They don’t tell me how to dress, how to behave and what to do.”

“I'm not a poseur, I'm not trying to be someone I'm not really. I find it funny when people try to pose and defend the "purity of jazz" - it's stupid. Relax, does it matter? Blue Note will not lose its integrity by signing me to a label! And I don't care what people think. Blue Note is a famous jazz label and I was introduced to them as a jazz standard performer. When we were working on the album, I started writing my own songs and these are not jazz compositions. I'm in no hurry to announce that I don't sing jazz or anything like that anymore. It's not true, but even that doesn't matter. It's just music. I know many jazz fans will say about my songs: "No, this is not jazz." And I agree with this. But if anyone thinks it's jazz, they should listen to Miles Davis..."

“I was lucky. It's a real happiness to feel supported by people who don't want to exploit you, who love music and don't measure it with money. It's a fortune that not many get."

The greatest joy for Norah Jones is performing in different countries of the world, in small clubs and at festivals. In the spring of 2003, the singer will perform at the famous jazz festival in Monterrey - despite the fact that "she does not perform jazz." Although - what does it matter? It's just the music that Norah Jones wholeheartedly gives to her listeners. This sincerity and childlike spontaneity and attract, probably, her fans. current and hopefully future.