Diana Krall

Diana Krall is one of those rare artists who makes you feel like jazz never went anywhere — like it's been waiting in a candlelit room for you the whole time. Growing up in Nanaimo, British Columbia, she somehow absorbed the Great American Songbook deeper than most Americans ever do, then headed to Berklee and came out the other side with a touch that's equal parts Oscar Peterson swing and Nat King Cole intimacy. What gets me is that smoky contralto layered over her own piano playing — she's not just a singer who sits at a keyboard, she's a genuine pianist-vocalist where neither half feels like an afterthought. Selling over 15 million albums worldwide while Billboard called her the second-greatest jazz artist of the 2000s decade is validation that the mainstream actually got one right for a change. Canada's Walk of Fame, the Order of Canada — she's earned every bit of it.

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Name (English)

Diana Krall

Name (Japanese)

ダイアナ・クラール

Reading

だいあな・くらーる

Born

November 16, 1964 (age 61)

Origin

Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Occupation

jazz singer / jazz pianist / songwriter / singer / pianist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dragon

University

Berklee College of Music

Awards & achievements

• 2005 Officer of the Order of Canada
• 2004 Canada's Walk of Fame
• 2000 Order of British Columbia

• Official sitehttps://www.dianakrall.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/dianakrall/
• Xhttps://x.com/DianaKrall
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%20Krall
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155879

Tags

• British Columbia
• jazz singer
• jazz pianist
• songwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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