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Diana Krall
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.
Her playing attracted the attention of bass player Ray Brown, who brought her into touch with influential teachers and producers. At age 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. Diana Krall and British musician Elvis Costello married in December 2003.
In 2000, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia. In 2003 she was given an honorary PhD (Fine Arts) from the University of Victoria. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.