BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Grammy®
Award-winning singer-songwriter Norah Jones will perform “Everybody
Needs a Best Friend” from the motion picture “Ted,” telecast producers
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today. “Everybody Needs a Best
Friend,” with music by Walter Murphy and lyrics by Seth MacFarlane, is
nominated for an Original Song Oscar. This will be Jones’s first time
performing on an Oscar show.
"I had such a great time
recording this song with Seth, and was thrilled to find out that it was
nominated for an Oscar,” said Jones. “Getting to perform it at such a
prestigious event, which my friend is hosting, is a once in a lifetime
opportunity."
"We are happy to have
Norah Jones perform Seth's and Walter Murphy's nominated song on our
Oscar telecast," said producers Zadan and Meron. "We are big admirers
of Norah's singing and she will help celebrate the unique circumstance
of having an Oscar host who is also nominated for Best Original Song."
Jones emerged on the world
stage with the 2002 release of her debut “Come Away With Me,” which
sold more than 10 million copies and earned her five Grammy Awards.
Since then, Jones has released a series of critically acclaimed and
commercially successful solo albums – “Feels Like Home” (2004), “Not
Too Late” (2007), “The Fall” (2009), and “Little Broken Hearts” (2012) –
as well as two albums with her country collective, The Little
Willies. The 2010 compilation “...Featuring Norah Jones” showcased
Jones’s versatility through collaborations with artists as diverse as
Willie Nelson, Outkast, Herbie Hancock and Foo Fighters.
Jones’s songs
have been featured many times on motion picture soundtracks, and she
made her feature film acting debut in “My Blueberry Nights” in 2007.
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