“Sunrise” by Norah Jones

"Sunrise" was the first single from Feels Like Home, Norah Jones's second album, released on Blue Note in 2004. She wrote it with Lee Alexander, who plays double bass on it, and the setting stays small and handmade: Jones at the piano, Kevin Breit on acoustic guitar and banjolin, Andrew Borger on slit drum, and Adam Levy and Daru Oda on backing vocals. Jones co-produced it with Arif Mardin, and Jay Newland recorded and mixed it.

It topped the chart in Croatia and reached number 4 in Canada and 13 in Italy, and though it never cracked the Billboard Hot 100, it still went gold in the US for 500,000 copies. It also took the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2005.

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