Who is the well known father of singer, songwriter Norah Jones?

Norah Jones is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Throughout her career, Jones has won numerous awards and has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade.

Jones was born Geetali Norah Shankar on March 30, 1979 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, to American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. After her parents separated in 1986, Shankar lived with her mother, growing up in Grapevine, Texas. At the age of sixteen, with both parents' consent, she officially changed her name to Norah Jones.

While most of her career has been solo, she made a memorable recording with Country star Willie Nelson, "Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You) and an album with Billie Joe Armstrong of punk rock band Green Day, "Foreverly".

Ravi Shankar, KBE (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), born Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury, his name often preceded by the title, Pandit (Master), was a world-famous Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music. He was one of the best-known proponents of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world.