If you’re referring to Norah Jones, she is neither foreign nor obscure.
She was born in New York but grew up in Dallas. She’s sold millions of albums and has won or been nominated for awards all over the world. And her father was Ravi Shankar.
Here’s some of her story.
In 2002, Jones launched her solo music career with the release of Come Away with Me , which was a fusion of jazz with country, blues, folk and pop. It was certified diamond, selling over 27 million copies.[8] The record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist.[9]Her subsequent studio albums— Feels Like Home (2004), Not Too Late (2007), and The Fall (2009)—all gained platinum status, selling over a million copies each.[10]They were also generally well received by critics.[11]Jones’s fifth studio album, Little Broken Hearts , was released on April 27, 2012; her sixth, Day Breaks , was released on October 7, 2016.[12] Her seventh studio album, Pick Me Up Off the Floor , was released on June 12, 2020.[13] Jones made her feature film debut as an actress in My Blueberry Nights, which was released in 2007 and was directed by Wong Kar-Wai.
Jones is the daughter of Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar and concert producer Sue Jones, and is the half-sister of fellow musicians Anoushka Shankar and Shubhendra Shankar.