LIVE IN RIO Diana Krall (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz singer and pianist from Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Krall began to play the piano when she was four years old. She began to play in restaurants when she was 15. When she was 17, she won a Vancouver Jazz Festival scholarship (student money award) to study music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She later moved to Los Angeles to study with Jimmy Rowles. In 1990, she moved to New York City.
Krall's 1996 album All For You, was a tribute (way to honour someone) to the Nat King Cole trio. It was on the Billboard jazz charts for 70 weeks. The album was considered for a Grammy Award. She won a Grammy in 1999 for "Best Jazz Musician of the Year". Her 2001 album The Look of Love was #1 in Canada. It also won the Juno Award as Canadian album of the year. Her 2002 album Live in Paris won the Grammy for Best Vocal Jazz Record. Also in 2002, Krall won the Juno for Canadian artist of the year. Her version of the Tom Waits song "Temptation" made #1 on the World Jazz Charts in 2004.
Krall married British musician Elvis Costello in December 2003.
Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals.[1] She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second Jazz artist of the 2000–09 decade, establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time.
Krall is the only jazz singer to have eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums.[2] To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards. She has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums.
Diana Jean Krall OC, OBC (nacida el 16 de noviembre de 1964) es una pianista y cantante de jazz canadiense. Ha vendido más de 6 millones de discos en los EE.UU. y más de 15 millones en todo el mundo. En total, vendió más discos que cualquier otra artista de jazz durante las décadas de 1990 y 2000. El 11 de diciembre de 2009, la revista Billboard la nombró la artista de jazz de la década 2000-2009. Es la única cantante de jazz con ocho álbumes que debutaron en el top de los álbumes de jazz de Billboard. Hasta la fecha, ha ganado tres premios Grammy y ocho premios Juno.
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