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Jean Krall - best known as a Grammy Award winning Canadian
jazz pianist and singer - born November 16 - 1964.
Jazz
Diva Diana Krall began learning the piano at the
age of four and started a jazz group in high school. At the age
of seventeen she won a scholarship from the Vancouver International
Jazz Festival to study at Berklee College of Music
in Boston. Her professional career started in 1993
- when she released her first album - Stepping Out
- and since many successful albums have been launched. In August
2000 she went on 20 city tours
with legendary Tony Bennett and
in 2001 Diana Krall began a world tour to strengthen
her international reputation. Her album - Live in Paris
- topped the Billboard jazz charts and went top five in Canada and
collected a second Grammy. Her latest album - Quiet
Nights - was released in March 2009.
Diana Krall holds the Order of Canada (OC) as well as the Order
of British Columbia (OBC) and is married to English singer-songwriter
Elvis Costello.
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