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The all-American Daughter of an Indian maestro
Compiled by Sindya N. Bhanoo 
March 2016
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
March 30, 1979
– Norah Jones, daughter
of sitar maestro
Ravi Shankar, is born in
Brooklyn, New York.
She grew up living with her mother, Sue Jones, in Grapevine, Texas. Jones has won nine Grammy awards. She was estranged from her father for a period of time but reunited with him and collaborated with him prior to his death.
Sindya N. Bhanoo writes the Observatory column in the Science section of The New York Times. She is also a board member of South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). This column’s material is from SAADA. https://www.saada.org/.
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