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Krall was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada into a musical family. She began learning the piano at age four. During her youth the family moved to Vancouver. In high school, she started playing in a small jazz group. At the age of fifteen, she started playing regularly in several Nanaimo restaurants.
Her playing attracted the attention of bass player Ray Brown who brought her into touch with influential teachers and producers. At age seventeen, she won a scholarship from Vancouver Jazz Festival to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After three terms she moved to Los Angeles to study with Jimmy Rowels, with whom she also began to sing. In 1990, Krall relocated to New York.
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).
Her third, All For You (A tribute to the Nat King Cole trio) (1996) was nominated for the Grammy and continued for 70 weeks in the BillboardBillboard is an American magazine now devoted to the music industry. When founded in 1894 it was originally concerned with carnival entertainment, but music coverage grew to the point that its earlier subjects were spun off into a separate journal in the jazz charts. Love Scenes (1997) quickly became a hit record with the trio of Krall, Russell MaloneRussell Malone is one of today's most prominent jazz guitarists. He made his name spending several years working with Jimmy Smith in the late 80s, Harry Connick Jr. in the early 90s and Diana Krall in the mid 90s. Yet it is as a leader of his own quartet (guitar) and Christian McBride (bass).
Orchestral arrangements by Jonny Mandel provided the background on When I Look In Your Eyes (1999); more Grammy nominations came along, and she was rewarded as Best Jazz Musician of the Year. 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 Look of Love went to number one on the Canadian album charts and went quadruple platinum in that country. The title track from the album reached number 22 on the adult contemporary chart.
In September 2001, Krall began a world tour started. Her concert at the " Paris OlympiaParis Olympia is a music hall at 28, Blvd. des Capucines, in the 9th arrondissement Paris, France. Founded in 1888 by Joseph Oller, the creator of the Moulin Rouge, the Olympia is the oldest music hall in Paris, today easily recognizable by its giant red" was recorded and released as her first live record. Diana Krall - Live in Paris topped the Billboard jazz charts, went top 20 on the Billboard 200 and went top 5 in Canada. It garnered her her second Grammy (Best Vocal Jazz Record) and a Juno AwardThe Juno Awards are awards of achievement presented to Canadian musical artists and bands; they could be considered the transnational counterpart to the United States' Grammy Awards. Organized by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the aw.
In December 2003, she married Elvis CostelloDeclan Patrick Aloysius McManus (born August 25, 1954), better known as Elvis Costello is a popular British musician, singer, and songwriter of Irish descent. He was an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid- 1970s, and later became assoc. Under his influence, she started to write and compose on her own; together they made an album The Girl in the Other Room which was released in April 2004, and quickly rose to the Top 5 in the UK, the Australian top 40 album charts. "Temptation", a cover of the Tom WaitsThomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American composer, singer, musician and actor. Early Career Born in Pomona, California, Waits' recording career began in 1971, after he relocated to Los Angeles and signed with Herb Cohen, manager of Frank Z song off his Frank's Wild YearsFrank's Wild Years is an album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. The album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen Brennan) for a play of the same name. The play had its world premiere in Chicago, Illinois album of 1987 reached number 1 of the World Jazz Charts (based on the US, Germany, France, Japan and China) and reached the US Top 40 on the pop charts.