Is diana krall still alive

Diana Krall was born into a musical family in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada (on November 16, 1964). She began learning the piano at the age of four. In high school, she started playing in a small jazz group. At the age of fifteen, she started playing regularly in several Nanaimo restaurants. She also spent some time in Toronto studying with Canadian Jazz great, Don Thompson (Bass/Piano) and with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts she moved to the U.S to continue studies and develop her career.

Her playing attracted the attention of bass player Ray Brown, who brought her into touch with influential teachers and producers. At the age of seventeen, she won a scholarship from the 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 Rowles, with whom she also began to sing. In 1990, Krall relocated to New York. She is married to British musician Elvis Costello.

In several respects, commercial success in jazz has always been eyed with suspicion by critics. The artist is either unceremoniously expelled from the genre, or the sudden breakthrough is attributed to other non-musical related qualities: image, appearance, marketing. The undertone, however, is always, “good jazz, I beg your pardon, is not obliging, but refined and complicated, difficult to access and should not be for the masses.“ The stubborn and awkward self-appointed jazz police live by this mantra time and again.

Since the early 90’s the career of pianist and singer Diana Krall, born in 1964 in Canadian British Columbia, has been on an upward swing. The blond jazz chanteuse modestly attributes this success also to a degree of luck. However, anyone who has experienced one of her various live shows in Europe, will have very quickly been taken by an immense radiance, and, above all, have been impressed by her enormous talent and musical versatility. Indeed, the elegant and sensitive combination of sincerity, intuition, and last but not least sensuality, are without

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