DIANA KRALL
PIANISTA/CANTANTE - JAZZ PIANIST & SINGER
Diana Krall was born into a family of musicians in Nanaimo, a small town on Vancouver Island in Canada on the 16th of November, 1964. She grew up in a musical environment: her grandmother was a jazz singer and her parents played the piano. Very young she moved with her family to the city of Vancouver and there she joined the jazz band in her high school. At the age of fifteen she was already playing at restaurants in Vancouver. At that age, she began to develop more and more the role of singer-pianist, as were Roberta Flack or Nina Simone, her admired artists.
At the age of seventeen she won a scholarship from the Vancouver International Jazz Festival to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. In Nanaimo she caught the attention of Ray Brown (Ella Fitzgerald’s ex-husband) who became her mentor and manager until his death. In 1990 she moved to New York, where she formed her own trio and published her first album Stepping Out. In 1994 he released her album Only Trust Your Heart with the production of Tommy LiPuma. In 1996 she undertook her first international tour in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan, and presented her work All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio, in homage to Nat King Cole. Her next album, the album Love Scenes of 1997, placed her definitely among the great jazz figures of all time. In 1999 she won his her first platinum album for the million-dollar sales of his her album When I Look In Your Eyes and her first Grammy Award.
The music of Diana Krall also began to be played on television series such as Sex and the City and on the soundtracks of films like The Score and Autumn in New York. In 2001 she released her album The Look of Love, in homage to Frank Sinatra and won two more Grammy awards. In 2002 she released her first live album, Live in Paris.
In May of that same year, when she was at the height of her artistic career, the death of her mother, victim of cancer, gave rise to the sensitive compositions of the album The Girl In The Other Room of in 2004 and turned Diana Krall into an active and recognized fighter against cancer. The lyrics of six melodies of that album were written with the collaboration of the British musician Elvis Costello.
Diana Krall and Elvis Costello were married in December 2003. On December 6, 2006 in New York they had their first children, the twins Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James. She takes them with her when she is on tour.
She has gone on releasing albums such as Christmas Songs (2005), From This Moment On (2006), Quiet Nights (2009), Glad Rag Doll (2012), Wallflower (2015),Turn Up the Quiet (2017) and Love Is Here to Stay with Tony Bennett (2018).
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