Diana Jean Krall OC OBC is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer who was born on November 16, 1964. She is known for her contralto voice. She has sold more than 15 million albums all over the world, including more than 6 million in the United States.
Billboard magazine named her the second best jazz musician of the decade on December 11, 2009. This made her one of the best-selling musicians of her time. Krall is the only jazz singer to have had eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums.
She has won eight Juno Awards and three Grammy Awards so far. She also has nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums. Krall was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, on November 16, 1964. She is the daughter of Adella A. and Stephen James “Jim” Krall, who works as an accountant.
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Michelle, Krall’s only sister, used to work for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Krall’s mother sang in a community choir, and her father played the piano at home. Krall started playing the piano when she was four, and she took tests through The Royal Conservatory of Music.
In high school, she played jazz with a group of other students. When she was 15, she started getting paid to play in restaurants. Krall won a scholarship to go to Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where she studied from 1981 to 1983. After that, she went to Los Angeles to play jazz for a while. In 1992, she went back to Canada to record her first album.
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On December 6, 2003, Krall and British musician Elvis Costello got married at Elton John’s estate outside London. Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James, their twin sons, were born in New York City on December 6, 2006.
Krall’s mother died of multiple myeloma in 2002, just a few months after Ray Brown and Rosemary Clooney, two of Krall’s teachers, also died. Elvis Costello talked about how he and his wife met in a strange way in front of millions of people watching the Grammy Awards.
Diana Krall is a jazz pianist and singer from Canada. Since 2003, she has been married to Declan Patrick MacManus, an English singer-songwriter who was born in Dublin. Costello talked about the first time he met Jessie Ware on her podcast, Table Manners, which she hosts with her mother, Lennie Ware.
He said, “We met, weirdly enough, onstage in front of a billion people. We met giving an award.” It was inquired by Jessie Ware if the attraction was “instant,” to which Costello said it was for him, “certainly, but I didn’t know how I would ever broach the subject.”
Costello said, “thankfully saw our future the same way,” adding that he and Krall had met briefly previously, but their first proper encounter “makes it sound as if it was put together by the gods of showbusiness.” The two quickly became friends, and Costello even acknowledged as much.
He also said, “It was just a coincidence.” Both Costello and Krall have twin sons named Dexter and Frank who were born in 2006. From his first marriage to Mary Burgoyne, he also has a son named Matthew. Krall, Costello, and their children just moved to Manhattan, New York, from her hometown of Vancouver.