Diana Krall (Photo: Sam Taylor Wood)Canadian Chanteuse Diana Krall gives a concert with a cause
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Kiwi Collection (Canada)
Krall's performance will benefit Caring For Cambodia, a charity that supports schools, teachers, students and kindergartens in the country
Canadian Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Diana Krall gives an exclusive pre-Formula One concert in Singapore, September 27th, 2008, Keppel Island, from 7.30 pm.
It will be a unique occasion to help Caring For Cambodia, CFC, the fabulous charity founded and continuously supported by Bill and Jamie Amelio. Caring for Cambodia (CFC). Today, CFC supports more than 5,600 students, 90 teachers, five schools, a teacher training center, and the first three kindergartens in Cambodia.
William (Bill) Amelio is President and CEO of the world's third largest personal computer manufacturer Lenovo, the world's third largest computer manufacturer after Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The Lenovo Group Limited has headquarters in Beijing, People's Republic of China, and Morrisville NC, USA, and it is incorporated in Hong Kong.
Diana Krall was born 1964 in Nanaimo BC, Canada. She had classical piano lessons from the age of four and she played in her high school jazz band, but mostly her inspiration came from her father, a stride piano player with an extensive record collection. "I think Dad has every recording Fats Waller ever made," she said, "and I tried to learn them all." Krall attended the Berklee College of Music on a music scholarship in the early '80s, and then moved to Los Angeles, where she lived for three years before moving to Toronto.
By 1990, she was based in New York, performing with a trio and singing. After releasing her first album on Justin Time Records, Krall was signed to GRP for her second, Only Trust Your Heart and transferred to its Impulse! division for her third, a Nat "King" Cole Trio tribute album called All for You, Love Scenes followed in 1997, and in late 1998, she issued the seasonal Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. When I Look in Your Eyes followed in 1999. Whatever notoriety Krall had earned over the years for her work exploded with this album, which became an international best-seller and earned her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. It also was the first jazz album to be nominated for Album of the Year in twenty-five years.
Krall's crossover success followed her as she performed in the Lilith Fair the following year and her songs cropped up everywhere from episodes of Sex in the City to films like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In 2001 she released The Look of Love. The album topped the Billboard charts and went quintuple platinum in Canada, the first by a Canadian jazz artist to do so. The Look of Love also helped Krall win three Juno awards in 2002, taking home awards for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. Two years later, Krall issued The Girl in the Other Room. Covering a few standards, this album included original material for the first time in her career. Returning to the large ensemble standards approach of her previous album, Krall released From This Moment On in 2006.
Canadian Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Diana Krall gives an exclusive pre-Formula One concert in Singapore, September 27th, 2008, Keppel Island, from 7.30 pm.
It will be a unique occasion to help Caring For Cambodia, CFC, the fabulous charity founded and continuously supported by Bill and Jamie Amelio. Caring for Cambodia (CFC). Today, CFC supports more than 5,600 students, 90 teachers, five schools, a teacher training center, and the first three kindergartens in Cambodia.
William (Bill) Amelio is President and CEO of the world's third largest personal computer manufacturer Lenovo, the world's third largest computer manufacturer after Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The Lenovo Group Limited has headquarters in Beijing, People's Republic of China, and Morrisville NC, USA, and it is incorporated in Hong Kong.
Diana Krall was born 1964 in Nanaimo BC, Canada. She had classical piano lessons from the age of four and she played in her high school jazz band, but mostly her inspiration came from her father, a stride piano player with an extensive record collection. "I think Dad has every recording Fats Waller ever made," she said, "and I tried to learn them all." Krall attended the Berklee College of Music on a music scholarship in the early '80s, and then moved to Los Angeles, where she lived for three years before moving to Toronto.
By 1990, she was based in New York, performing with a trio and singing. After releasing her first album on Justin Time Records, Krall was signed to GRP for her second, Only Trust Your Heart and transferred to its Impulse! division for her third, a Nat "King" Cole Trio tribute album called All for You, Love Scenes followed in 1997, and in late 1998, she issued the seasonal Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. When I Look in Your Eyes followed in 1999. Whatever notoriety Krall had earned over the years for her work exploded with this album, which became an international best-seller and earned her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. It also was the first jazz album to be nominated for Album of the Year in twenty-five years.
Krall's crossover success followed her as she performed in the Lilith Fair the following year and her songs cropped up everywhere from episodes of Sex in the City to films like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In 2001 she released The Look of Love. The album topped the Billboard charts and went quintuple platinum in Canada, the first by a Canadian jazz artist to do so. The Look of Love also helped Krall win three Juno awards in 2002, taking home awards for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. Two years later, Krall issued The Girl in the Other Room. Covering a few standards, this album included original material for the first time in her career. Returning to the large ensemble standards approach of her previous album, Krall released From This Moment On in 2006.
