Diane's CDs available at CD Baby.
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Kiss Me Like That: Kelly Jefferson - sax, Joey Goldstein - guitar, Kieran Overs - bass, Anthony Michelli - drums. Visit kissmelikethat.com for samples.
Songs of Sweet Fire: Dany Roy - ten. & sop. saxophone; Vanessa Rodrigues - Hammond B3 organ, Rhodes & piano; Mike Rud - guitar; Mike Berard - el. & acoustic guitars; Tim Nolan - el. & acoustic bass; Camil Belisle - drums; Jim Doxas - percussion.
Tales... My Mama told me: Steve Kaldestad - ten. saxophone; Martin Pickett - piano; Tim Nolan - bass; Steve Brown - drums.
After Dusk: Mike Rud - guitar; Dave Watts - bass.
Influences
Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Nina Simone, Nat Cole, Duke Ellington, Chet Baker, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Caetano Veloso, Tom Jobim, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Etta James, James Taylor, Carole King, Leonard Cohen, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Patsy Cline, Alison Krauss, Juliette Greco, Charles Trenet, Georges Brassens, Edith Piaf, Bach, Prokofiev, Mahler... And about a thousand more. This is hard to narrow down!
Diane Nalini’s newest album,
Kiss Me Like That is a captivating blend of standards and original songs celebrating humanity's fascination with the sky and stars.
From the title track's infectious rhythms, to ‘Cuando sale la luna’ - Diane’s sultry ode to the moon, her original compositions on this album are all influenced by the wonders of the sky and stars. Her six original songs are perfectly complemented by classic jazz standards chosen carefully for this project, like "Stardust", "Skylark", "They All Laughed", as well as her intimate interpretations of folk & pop songs such as James Taylor's "Sweet Baby James" and Sting's "Valparaiso."
Diane started singing jazz at the age of three. She was born in Montreal, Canada, and is of Belgian and Goan descent. "She captures jazz at its most sophisticated and joyous level," writes Elle Magazine Canada.
Her previous album,
Songs of Sweet Fire put a new spin on the words of William Shakespeare set to Diane's original jazz, funk, folk, and blues music. The album received lots of airplay on national radio in Canada, and garnered rave reviews from jazz fans and literature fans alike.
In a recent review of
Tales... My Mama Told Me, Irwin Block of the Montreal Gazette wrote: "Diane Nalini has the voice, the phrasing, confidence, clarity and control to make a tune her own and turn it into a nuanced thing of beauty."
Her debut album
After dusk was described by London's Time Out magazine as "a gorgeous collection, sung with quiet enunciated power". "Her artistry shines through on two wide-ranging albums, After Dusk and the newly released Tales... My Mama Told Me", writes Canada's Globe and Mail.
While breathing new life into jazz standards, she also performs her own compositions, as well as Brazilian songs and French chanson.
She has performed for President Bill Clinton, Sir Paul McCartney, the President of Malta, the Canadian High Commissioner to London, and former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. Diane was nominated for the Grand Prix de Jazz General Motors at the 2002 Montreal International Jazz Festival, and was one of two finalists for the UK's Young Jazz Vocalist of the Year awards for 2001.
She went to England on a Rhodes Scholarship and obtained a doctorate from the University of Oxford. She has since returned to Canada and has taken up a faculty position at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
Diane can be heard regularly on CBC Radio and Espace Musique, and has also been featured on BBC Radio 3, and Danish and Brazilian radio stations.
Here are some pictures from Diane's recent UK concerts, all photos taken by Tom Macnamara:
Thanks for being my friend!!!! if you like my music please vote me at www.worldsings.com/anuhel (register for free first) I'm on LOCM Radio too www.locmradio.com you can request my songs at http://www.locmradio.com/samHTMweb/songrequest.html it'easy and fast! Don't forget to visit my website www.anuhel.com Love Anuhel
Good luck with the new album! You have a wonderful vibe and great sound! Missing the old stomping grounds of T.O. here in the windy city. Let us know if you're ever touring south of the border.
