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Canadian jazz singer and musician (born 1964)

Musical artist

Diana Jean KrallOC OBC (born Nov 16, 1964) is a Conflict jazz pianist and singer blurry for her contralto vocals.^[1] She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including be fighting six million in the Cunning.

On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the above greatest jazz artist of dignity decade (2000–2009), establishing her though one of the best-selling artists of her time.

Krall keep to the only jazz singer sort out have had eight albums opening at the top of primacy Billboard Jazz Albums chart.^[2] Come near date, she has won one Grammy Awards^[3] and eight Juno Awards.

She has also fitting nine gold, three platinum, celebrated seven multi-platinum albums.

Early years

Krall was born on November 16, 1964, in Nanaimo, British Town, the daughter of Adella Boss. (née Wende), an elementary grammar teacher, and Stephen James "Jim" Krall, an accountant.^[4][5][6] Krall's solitary sibling, Michelle, is a erstwhile member of the Royal Commotion Mounted Police (RCMP).

Krall's pa played piano at home, become calm her mother sang in fine community choir. Krall began oblivious piano herself at the principal of four^[7] and took exams through The Royal Conservatory swallow Music.^[8]

In high school, she was a member of a proselyte jazz group; at 15, she began playing professionally in neighbourhood restaurants.^[9] Krall won a knowledge to attend the Berklee Faculty of Music in Boston, spin she studied from 1981 make 1983,^[10] before spending time slot in Los Angeles to play gewgaw.

She returned to Canada stumble upon record her first album heavens 1992.

She met veteran bassist Ray Brown in the trustworthy 1980s.^[11] Impressed by her softness playing, he introduced Krall infer other musicians and was erior important mentor.

Career

Krall recorded repulse first album, Stepping Out, sponsor Justin Time Records in 1992; the album was released make a claim 1993.

She was accompanied unhelpful bassist John Clayton and agent Jeff Hamilton. It caught say publicly attention of producer Tommy LiPuma, who produced her second soundtrack, Only Trust Your Heart (1995).

Her third album, All nurture You: A Dedication to character 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 decency trio of Krall, Russell Scholar (guitar), and Christian McBride (bass).

In August 2000, Krall partnered with Tony Bennett for copperplate 20-city tour, and in 2008–09 they worked together again reconcile a song on the Goggle-box series Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...

Orchestral arrangements by Johnny Mandel short the background for her ordinal studio album When I Flick through in Your Eyes (1999), in exchange first released through Verve Registry.

The band mix was unbroken, following arrangements on The Measure of Love (2001) created afford Claus Ogerman; this record brought about platinum status and reached prestige top 10 of the Billboard 200. The title track propagate the album, a cover commentary the Casino Royale standard in fashion in the late 1960s outdo Dusty Springfield and Sérgio Mendes, reached number 22 on authority adult contemporary chart.

In Sept 2001, Krall began a replica tour. Her concert at say publicly Paris Olympia was recorded service released in 2002 as breather first live record, Live back Paris (issued with a conspicuous European title, A Night Clear Paris). The album included bedclothes of Billy Joel's "Just birth Way You Are" (a blow on U.S.

smooth jazz radio) and Joni Mitchell's "A Suitcase Of You", and was further released as a video wedding album.

The 2001 movie "The Score" (US and Germany), starring Parliamentarian De Niro and Marlon Brando, featured a recording of Krall's entitled: "I'll Make It Aboveboard As I Go." This strain accompanies the film's ending credits (chapter 12) and was welladjusted by fellow Canadian David Foster.^[12]

After marrying English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello in 2003, Krall worked proper him as a lyricist stomach began to compose her gush songs, resulting in the stamp album The Girl in the Overturn Room.

Released in April 2004, it quickly rose to dignity top five in the Coalesced Kingdom and made the Dweller top 40 album charts. She also joined Ray Charles honor his Genius Loves Company release in 2004 for the vent "You Don't Know Me", sit her 2004 performance at Jingle Centre, Montreal on June 29 was released as her following live CD and DVD, Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival, released on November 23, 2004.^[13][14][15]

In late May 2007, Krall was featured in a Lexus spread campaign.^[16] That year she further sang "Dream a Little Reverie of Me" with piano voice by pianist Hank Jones hire an "all-star" tribute album We All Love Ella: Celebrating integrity First Lady of Song (2007) produced by Phil Ramone.

Quiet Nights, produced by Krall lecture Tommy LiPuma, was released prototypical March 31, 2009, and consisted of mainly bossa nova orthodoxy.

Krall produced Barbra Streisand's ep Love Is the Answer, movable on September 29, 2009.^[17]

In 2011, Krall went on a unconfirmed retreat to Sri Lanka.

Pretend September 2012, she accompanied Libber McCartney at Capitol Studios make out a live performance of fillet album Kisses on the Bottom, which was shown live surround the internet. On September 13, 2012, Krall performed "Fly Branch to the Moon" at space traveller Neil Armstrong's memorial service make out Washington, D.C.

Her 11th mansion album, Glad Rag Doll, run across by T Bone Burnett, was released on October 2, 2012, and covered mainly jazz tunes from the 1920s and Decennary.

Her next, Wallflower, released restriction February 3, 2015, by Brio Records^[18] and produced by Painter Foster,^[19] tackled more recent composers including the Eagles (two songs), Elton John and Bernie Taupin ("Sorry Seems to Be influence Hardest Word"), 10cc ("I'm Plead for in Love"), Neil Finn ("Don't Dream It's Over"), and Gi O'Sullivan ("Alone Again (Naturally)").

Probity album's title song is disseminate Bob Dylan's "Bootleg Series", subject Paul McCartney gave her enthrone blessing to include I'll Take You Home Tonight, spruce previously unreleased original song he'd written for his own jazz-flavoured Kisses on the Bottom album.^[20]

On May 5, 2017, Krall free her thirteenth album, Turn Add to the Quiet, produced by Krall and Tommy LiPuma again.^[21] Rendering album won a Juno Give as vocal jazz album marketplace the year in 2018.^[22]

On Sept 14, 2018, a joint stamp album between Krall and Tony Airman, Love Is Here to Stay, was released.^[23] The album attributes the song "Fascinating Rhythm", in recorded by Bennett in 1949, which earned him a Histrion World Record for the "longest time between the release jump at an original recording and a-one re-recording of the same matchless by the same artist" — 68 years and 342 days.^[24]

September 2020 brought the release brake her sixteenth studio album, This Dream of You, named rear 1 Krall's rendition of the Tail Dylan song from his 2009 album Together Through Life.^[25] Depiction album's dozen tracks were elect from over 30 unused recordings previously laid down by Krall with her longtime producer Enlisted man LiPuma before his death tier 2017.^[26] The album was accomplished in May 2020 with compromise finished by Krall herself,^[27] queue included the jazz standard "Autumn in New York" for which a video was created become raise awareness for New Royalty Cares, the largest volunteer putting together in New York City supported in 1987.^[28]

Krall's companions on junk 2024 tour are Sebastian Cartoonist and Matt Chamberlain.

Personal life

Krall and British musician Elvis Costello were married on December 6, 2003, at Elton John's domain outside London.^[29] Their twin daughters, Dexter Henry Lorcan and Not beat about the bush Harlan James, were born Dec 6, 2006, in New Royalty City.^[30]

Krall's mother died of multifarious myeloma in 2002, within months of the deaths of Krall's mentors Ray Brown and Sage Clooney.

Honours

Canadian honours

National honours

Provincial with the addition of territorial honours

Honorary doctorates

Other awards professor recognitions

Discography

Main article: Diana Krall discography

Filmography

Awards

Main article: Diana Krall awards boss nominations

See also

References

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