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Diana Krall
 
Biography
Krall was born into a musical family in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. She began learning the piano at the age of four. In high school, she started playing in a small jazz group. When she was 15 she started playing regularly in several Nanaimo restaurants.
At age seventeen she won a scholarship from the Vancouver International Jazz Festival to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and completed three terms.
In Nanaimo her playing attracted the attention of famed bass player Ray Brown (ex-husband of the late Ella Fitzgerald, long-time member of the Oscar Peterson Trio and Grammy-winning composer) and drummer Jeff Hamilton. After hearing her play, Brown and Hamilton persuaded Krall to move to Los Angeles, and study with pianist Jimmy Rowles, with whom she began to sing. This also brought her into contact with influential teachers and producers. In 1990, Krall relocated to New York.
Her father Jim Krall's large record collection helped to expose the young Krall to jazz legends. Diana lost her mother Adella to multiple myeloma in 2002, within months of also losing her mentors Ray Brown and Rosemary Clooney. Diana's only sibling, Michelle, a former member of the RCMP, actively supports her older sister's career.
Krall and British musician Elvis Costello were married on December 6, 2003 at Elton John's estate outside London. Their first children together, twin sons Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James, were born December 6, 2006 in New York City.
Diana Krall is a bright, young singer-pianist making a big splash on the jazz scene. She'sperformed with Sadao Watanabe and Christian McBride, and with jazz great Ray Brown.and she's been making her presence felt at jazz festivals around the world.
Coming from Nanaimo, B.C., Canada, Krall credits her dad and his amazing record collection with exposing her first to Fats Waller and then to a wide variety of musical styles.
Krall finds a special appeal in this music of the early forties and later.
Katie Malloch, host of CBC Stereo's JazzBeat tells us: The world has sat up and taken notice of Diana Krall with a speed that has astonished everyone, including Diana. This profile is an intriguing look at a talented woman who's coming to terms with fame, and is coolly determined to keep making music her way.
She is one of one of my favorite choice and listening to her, is a pleasant way for the relaxation. Quebec and Canada are proud of Diana Krall.
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