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Diana Krall

Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals.[2] She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 1990s and 2000s. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second Jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of her time. She is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums.[3] To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards.

Live at The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia - Photo by Rob Garland

Professional career

In 1993, Krall released her first album, Stepping Out, which she recorded with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton. It caught the attention of producer Tommy LiPuma, who produced her second album, Only Trust Your Heart (1995).[citation needed]

Her third album, All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio (1996), was nominated for a Grammy and continued for 70 weeks in the Billboard jazz charts. Love Scenes (1997) quickly became a hit record with the trio of Krall, Russell Malone (guitar) and Christian McBride (bass).[citation needed]

In August 2000, Krall was paired on a 20-city tour with Tony Bennett. They were paired again for a song on the TV series Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...[citation needed]

Orchestral arrangements by Johnny Mandel provided the background on When I Look In Your Eyes (1999). The band mix was kept, following arrangements on The Look of Love (2001) created by Claus Ogerman; this record achieved platinum status and reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200. The title track from the album, a cover of the Casino Royale standard popularized in the late 1960s by Dusty Springfield and Sergio Mendes, reached number 22 on the adult contemporary chart.[citation needed]

In September 2001, Krall began a world tour. Her concert at the Paris Olympia was recorded and released as her first live record, Diana Krall - Live in Paris. The album included covers of Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are" (a hit on U.S. smooth jazz radio) and Joni Mitchell's "A Case Of You."[citation needed]

After marrying Elvis Costello, she worked with him as a lyricist and started to compose her own songs, resulting in the album The Girl in the Other Room. The album, released in April 2004, quickly rose to the top five in the United Kingdom and made the Australian top 40 album charts.[citation needed]

She also joined Ray Charles on his Genius Loves Company album in 2004 on the song, "You Don't Know Me".[citation needed]

In late May 2007, Krall was featured in a Lexus ad campaign.[4] She also sang, "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with piano accompaniment by pianist Hank Jones.

Quiet Nights, her latest album, was released on 31 March 2009.[citation needed]

Krall also produced Barbra Streisand's album Love Is the Answer, released on 29 Sep 2009.[citation needed]

To protest the blockade of Gaza and in the aftermath of the Israeli assault on the vessel MV Mavi Marmara on 31 May 2010, many artists scheduled to perform in Israel in mid-2010 joined the ongoing boycott against these reported actions. Among them was Krall's husband, Elvis Costello[citation needed]. Krall, by contrast, performed in Ra'anana, Israel's outdoor amphitheater before a large and appreciative crowd on 4 August 2010.[citation needed]

Personal life

Krall was born on November 16, 1964 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Her father played piano around the house and her mother sang in a community choir. She was playing piano herself at the age of four and playing jazz in a local restaurant at 15. She went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston on a scholarship before heading out to L.A. to play jazz. She returned to Canada to release her first album in 1993.[5]

Krall lost her mother Adella to multiple myeloma in 2002, within months of also losing her mentors Ray Brown and Rosemary Clooney.[citation needed] Diana's only sibling, Michelle, is a former member of the RCMP.

Krall and British musician Elvis Costello were married on December 6, 2003 at Elton John's estate outside London.[citation needed] Their twin sons, Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James, were born December 6, 2006 in New York City.[citation needed]

Honours

In 2000, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia[6]. In 2003 she was given an honorary Ph.D. (Fine Arts) from the University of Victoria[7]. In 2004, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame[8]. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada[9].

She is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation[10].

Discography

Diana Krall by a Steinway grand piano
Main article: Diana Krall discography
Studio albums
DVDs

Filmography

Awards

Main article: Diana Krall awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Krall has won two awards outright and, in 2010, was the artist performing the song "Quiet Nights" arranged by Claus Ongerman, from nine nominations.[11][12][citation needed]

Year Nominee / work Award Result
1996 All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio Best Jazz Vocal Performance Nominated
1997 Love Scenes Best Jazz Vocal Album Nominated
2000 When I Look in Your Eyes Album of the Year Nominated
Best Jazz Vocal Performance Won
2002 "Better Than Anything" Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Nominated
2003 Live in Paris Best Jazz Vocal Album Won
2005 "I Should Care" Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Nominated
2007 From This Moment On Best Jazz Vocal Album Nominated
2010 "Quiet Nights" Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) Won

References

  1. ^ http://www.steinway.com/steinway/artist_roster/roster.php?artistSection=main&artistListing=k
  2. ^ Barnes and Noble review: Diana Krall.
  3. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/charts-decade-end/artists-of-the-decade?year=2009&begin=51&order=position
  4. ^ Lexus commercial on YouTube
  5. ^ "In Step With: Diana Krall". Parade Magazine. April 25, 2004.
  6. ^ http://www.orderofbc.gov.bc.ca/members/obc-2000/2000diana-krall/
  7. ^ http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=86
  8. ^ http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductee/diana-krall
  9. ^ http://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=10157
  10. ^ http://www.themmrf.org/about-the-mmrf/leadership/honorary-board-of-directors.html
  11. ^ http://www2.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx
  12. ^ http://www.grammy.com/nominees
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