American jazz vocalist, artist, performer, teacher/lecturer, and music professor.

Born: 13 September 1967 in Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA.

Currently based in Hamburg, Germany. Probably best known commercially for his vocals on track by Shazz [m=87641] (1998).

Norris gained BA in Architecture Education and Training from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1985-1990). Studied at the American School Of Modern Music, Paris, France (1997-1998), then piano training with Aldridge Hansberry for composer, percussionist, free improvisation (1998), moving on to piano/organ lessons with Paula Gold and Benny Carson, USA.

Later had singing lessons with Martina Hamberg-Möbius (rabin pedagogy), Jimmy Rivers, Lawrence Albert (baritone), and also training as choir director and with John Everson, USA.

Teaching activities:
- Since 2010 professor at the University Of Music & Theater Hamburg, majoring in jazz singing.
- 2012-2015 lecturer, subject singing/popular music, youth music school Hamburg Mitte.
- 2008-2010 lecturer at the University Of Music & Theater Hamburg, jazz singing, and vocal ensemble.
- 2007-2010 lecturer at the Hamburg School Of Music, singing.

Artistic activity (New York City, USA):
- 1999 musical direction/composition for radio play What Light From Darkness Grows by Janine L. Carter (received the Golden Reel Award in 2003).
- 1998 musical direction/composition for play Mixtries, based on novel Mulatto by Langston Hughes, Crèation Daniel Banks, New York University Tisch School Of The Arts (21-27 April 1998).

Artistic activity (Paris, France):
- 2001 head of the school project Le Secret de la Madeleine, composition for voice and tape, with students at a Paris high school on the topics of identity and memory.
- 2000 soloist, actor in Le Regard de Lyncèe, opera by François Ribac.
- 1995 producer of CD Hot Chills, for the music collective Le Kaleidescope Bleu.

Artistic activity (Hamburg, Germany):
- 2008 arrangement/composition/production of CD In The Spirit Of Christmas, for choir, string quartet, piano, and combo. Live concert in the Laieszhalle Hamburg, 4 December 2008.
- 2005 lyricist/voice arranger for Lohengrin's Error, for orchestra, Latin combo, choir and soloists, based on the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, produced by Peter Will.
- Soloist and band member with Gabriel Coburger (sax), Buggy Braune (piano); Hamburg Police Orchestra; Hessischer Rundfunk big band; Portrait Wolf Kerschek; Gottfried Böttger (piano); Big band from the Hamburg University; Northwest Big Band, Oldenburg; Actor/singer in the first cast of The Lion King, musical by Julie Taymor and Elton John, Hamburg Hafentheater.

Festivals, summary:
- 2015 Jazz Baltica, Germany, with Auintet Jean-Paul (Gabriel Coburger).
- 2010 Dubai Jazz Festival with the quintet Jean-Paul (Gabriel Coburger).
- 2008 International Competition Voice & Guitar of the city of Völklingen and the Society For Culture & Guitar.
- 1996 Printemps de Bourges World Music Festival, France, premiere of Modern Folklore, for choir, soloists, and percussion.
- 1995 Crest Jazz Vocal Festival and competition, France.
- Other festivals: Jazz Ahead, Jazz Baltica, Magdeburg Jazz Festival.