Hooverphonic

The band launched into an extended European tour in September of 2003. Jones received 3 awards at the Grammy Awards of 2005, two for her Record of the Year collaboration with Ray Charles on the song Here We Go Again. In 2003 the band released a live album entitled Sit Down And Listen To Hooverphonic, featuring a selection of songs from the band's previous studio albums, as well as new recordings such as Antarctica and The Last Thing I Need Is You. In that same year, TIME magazine listed Jones among the Most Influential People of 2004. The album went platinum in Belgium and won the group ZAMU's Best Pop/Rock Band and Best Album awards in 2002. Within a week of its release, Feels Like Home had sold over a million copies. Jackie Cane retains the dreamy elements of Hooverphonic's previous works, most notably on songs "Nirvana Blue" and "Human Interest", but tracks like "The World Is Mine" (the first single) and "Day After Day" have a clear Broadway showtune quality to them. Rather than repeat the softer mood of Come Away With Me, her second album was more influenced by country music.

Driven to the brink of insanity by the pressures of fame, Jackie quits show-business and returns home to attempt reconciliation, where her sister poisons her and then commits suicide. Her sophomore album, Feels Like Home, was released on February 9, 2004. Categorized by some as a "trip-hopera" (but referred to by the band as a "pop musical"), the album tells the fictional story of the title character, a lounge singer catapulted into stardom at the expense of her relationship with her twin sister. Norah Jones walked away from the Grammy Awards of 2003 with 8 awards, including Best New Artist. 2002 saw the group shifting gears again, this time releasing the concept album Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane. Her music is often compared to that of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. On the heels of Tree's success, the band became the first Belgian outfit to headline Rock Werchter in 2001. Jones performs frequently with guitarist Charlie Hunter.

Highlights from the album are the string-laden "Out Of Sight" and "Mad About You". In 1999, two years into the program, Norah left for New York City, where she performed with the band Wax Poetic. The band followed up Milk with 2000's The Magnificent Tree, which expounds on the sound of Milk but with a much darker tone. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the University of North Texas, where she majored in jazz piano. The single "Club Montepulciano" was a minor college hit in the U.S., and "Renaissance Affair" was featured in commercials for the new Volkswagen Beetle. Jones attended the Booker T. A marked departure from their debut, the album is driven less by breakbeats and samples and more by organic string elements and traditional song structures. Jones was born in New York City, the daughter of Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, but she spent her childhood with her mother, Sue Jones, who moved to Dallas, Texas, when Norah was four.

With Arnaert on vocals the band released Blue Wonder Power Milk in 1998. Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979; she changed her name officially to Norah Jones at age 16) is a multi-Grammy Award winning pianist and singer-songwriter whose career was launched with her successful 2002 debut album Come Away With Me, a jazz piano album with a soul/folk tinge, that sold 18 million copies worldwide and received 8 Grammy awards. Sadonius left Hooverphonic shortly after the release of A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular and was replaced by Geike Arnaert. Feels Like Home (2004) #1 (for 6 weeks) 4* platinum. The original members of the group were vocalist Liesje Sadonius, keyboardist Frank Duchêne, guitarist and programmer Alex Callier, and guitarist Raymond Geerts. Come Away With Me (2002)#1 ( for 4 weeks) 9* platinum. The band achieved international recognition through the inclusion of the track "2Wicky" (from A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular) on the soundtrack to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1996 film Stealing Beauty (Io Ballo da Sola). First Sessions (EP) (2001).

The band originally called themselves Hoover but later changed their name to Hooverphonic due to complaints by The Hoover Company as well as discovering that other groups were already using that name. They quickly expanded their sound to the point where they could no longer be pigeonholed into one genre. Hooverphonic is a Belgian music group formed in the mid-1990s as a trip-hop outfit. Sit Down And Listen To Hooverphonic (2003).

Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane (2002). The Magnificent Tree (2000). Blue Wonder Power Milk (1998). A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular (1996).