Artist: Diana Krall

Diana Jean Krall OC OBC is a Canadian jazz  pianist and singer known for her  contralto vocals.  She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the US.

To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards. She has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums. 

In high school, she was a member of a student jazz group. At 15, she began playing professionally in local restaurants. Krall won a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied from 1981 to 1983. She returned to Canada to record her first album in 1992. 

Krall recorded her first album, Stepping Out, for Justin Time Records in 1992; the album was released in 1993. She was accompanied by bassist John Clayton and drummer Jeff Hamilton. It caught the attention of producer Tommy LiPuma, who produced her second album, Only Trust Your Heart (1995). 

Her album, All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio (1996), was nominated for a Grammy and continued for 70 weeks in the Billboard jazz charts. In August 2000, Krall partnered with Tony Bennett for a 20-city tour. 

Orchestral arrangements by Johnny Mandel provided the background for her fifth studio album, When I Look in Your Eyes (1999), her first released through Verve Records. The Look of Love (2001) album achieved platinum status, and reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200.

After marrying English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello in 2003, Krall worked with him as a lyricist and began to compose her own songs, resulting in the album The Girl in the Other Room. Released in April 2004, it quickly rose to the top five in the United Kingdom and made the Australian top 40 album charts. She also joined Ray Charles on his Genius Loves Company album in 2004 for the song "You Don't Know Me."

Her studio album, Glad Rag Doll, produced by T Bone Burnett, was released on October 2, 2012, and covered mainly jazz tunes from the 1920s and 1930s. On May 5, 2017, Krall released Turn Up the Quiet, produced by Krall and Tommy LiPuma again. The album won a Juno Award as vocal jazz album of the year in 2018.