Posted November 18, 200618 yr Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Grammy Award Winning Jazz pianist and singer. Krall was born into a musical family in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. 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. At age seventeen she won a scholarship from the Vancouver International Jazz Festival to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and completed three terms. In Nanaimo her playing attracted the attention of famed bass player Ray Brown (ex-husband of the late Ella Fitzgerald). After hearing her play, he 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 1990, Krall relocated to New York. Diana Krall and British musician Elvis Costello married in December 2003. They are expecting twins, their first children together, in December 2006. More Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Krall
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