Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. She is known for her contralto vocals.
Krall was born into a musical family in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Her Norwegian father, Jim Krall, owned a large record collection that helped expose the young Krall to jazz legends. She began learning the piano at the age of four. In high school, she started playing in a small jazz group. ...
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Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. She is known for her contralto vocals.
Krall was born into a musical family in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Her Norwegian father, Jim Krall, owned a large record collection that helped expose the young Krall to jazz legends. 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 Berklee College of Music in Boston. In Nanaimo, her playing attracted the attention of famed bass player Ray Brown 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...
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