Diana Krall

Born on November 16, 1964, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, into a musical household, Diana Jean Krall began classical piano studies at age four and discovered her passion for jazz playing along with her father's vast collection of 78-rpm records of Fats Waller and Nat King Cole. In high school, she was playing jazz piano in local restaurants and jazz clubs before winning a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. In Los Angeles, legendary bassist Ray Brown and drummer Jeff Hamilton recognized her extraordinary gift, encouraging her to combine her virtuoso piano playing with her smoky, intimate contralto singing voice. After releasing her debut album 'Stepping Out' in 1993, Krall signed with GRP/Impulse! and began a fruitful collaboration with legendary producer Tommy LiPuma. In 1996, her tribute album 'All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio' spent seventy weeks on the Billboard jazz charts. Her international breakthrough came in 1999 with 'When I Look in Your Eyes'; the album won two Grammy Awards—including Best Jazz Vocal Performance—and made Krall the first jazz artist in twenty-five years to be nominated for Album of the Year across all genres. In 2001, 'The Look of Love' became a multi-platinum global smash, topping charts around the world with lush arrangements by Claus Ogerman. Over her four-decade career, Krall has sold over fifteen million albums worldwide, earned three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards, was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, and performed on the world's most prestigious concert stages from Carnegie Hall to the Olympia in Paris.