Dianne Nola: vocals, piano, kazoo, bass, guitar, instrument, vocal and foot percussion. 1980s:
Tony Ghiglieri & Dianne Nola --Tony Ghiglieri (http://www.myspace.com/cosmicboogaloo) --guitar, DN --vocals (jazz). Dianne Nola & Gail Clark --Gail Clark (http://www.singers.com/contemp/vocamotion.html) --vocals, DN --
(songwriting & standards) vocals, guitar and piano. The Coastal Blues Distributors Screamin' Iain MacCleod (http://www.myspace.com/screaminiain) --vocals & harp, Daryn "Baby D" Roven --electric guitar, Todd McMasters --bass, Joshua Bleier --drums, DN -- vocals (blues), electric rhythm guitar and tambourine. The Dianne Nola Trio --Alex Candelaria (http://www.alexcandelaria.com) --guitar, Jon Hypes --bass, DN --vocals (jazz).
1990s:
Dianne Nola & Driving On Ice --Mark Ankenman (http://www.davecreamer.com/Recordings.htm) --guitar, Walt Wilson --bass, Rob "Floating Core" Conne --drums, DN --songwriting, vocals and keys. Food Sexy--Margrit Eichler (http://www.truemargrit.com) -- songwriting, vocals, guitar & keys, Robert Geller --songwriting, vocals & bass and DN -- songwriting, vocals, keys, guitar, bass, tambourine and tap dancing. Dianne Nola with Kent Cressman--Kent Cressman -- keys and DN -- vocals (jazz).
2000s:
Performed and/or recorded with Michael McIntosh, The Medicine Ball Band, True Margrit, Andrew Bacon, Gary Hobish, Jimmy Sweetwater, Mike Anderson, Lisa Mandelstein, Alex Walsh, Danielle Rosa, Amy Meyers, and L J Murphy.
Influences
Chronologically:
Judy Garland, Carole King, Karen Carpenter, Janis Ian, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, Yes, Laura Nyro, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Sylvia Plath, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Keith Jarrett, Elton John, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Hartman, Theolonius Monk, Memphis Minnie, Rory Block, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Bessie Smith, Gene Harris, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Etta James, Nina Simone, Blossom Dearie, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace and anyone ever taken lessons from or played
with in a group.
Sounds Like
People say... Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Maria Muldaur, Tori Amos, Eva Cassidy.
Dianne Nola is a singer/songwriter/pianist/voice over actor based in San Francisco.
Though compared to Laura Nyro and Tori Amos in both poetics, strength and soul, her jazz and blues roots make her music challenging to categorize. She has shared stages with luminaries Ralph Carney, Wavy Gravy and Holly Near.
Nola grew up on an orchard in the Central Valley of California and began writing and performing in cafés during high school. She attended the University of California at Santa Cruz where she earned degrees in Theater and Music. There, she once had the opportunity to study with songwriter, Carole King. She became active in the jazz scene after college, performing and fronting small ensembles. In 1986, she formed a duo with vocalist Gail Clark. They performed on the folk and women’s music circuit with a repertoire that included Nola’s originals as well as jazz standards.
She moved to San Francisco in 1990 to promote her new album, When Are You Gonna Move To L.A.? and to be a part of the burgeoning neo-folk scene. Within months, she assembled local jazz players to form Dianne Nola with Driving On Ice. Her song, Where Have My Years Gone?, recorded with the group, was chosen as one of the finalists in the Best of the Bay 1992 competition.
By the late 1990s, the performance art group Food Sexy, was playing original songs about the erotic nature of food. The group included Nola on lead vocals, various instruments and tap dancing, alongside San Francisco-based singer-songwriter True Margrit.
In 2001, having been frustrated by the music industry, she returned to college to pursue a degree in jazz education. However, inspired from the local scene of Austin, Texas, she began again to perform either her own compositions or in a blues act donning period attire.
Some of the notable musicians she has studied with are Paul Peña, Caroline Dahl, Patti Cathcart (Tuck & Patti), Mark Levine, David Gordon, Joe Gore and members of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra, David Worm and Rhiannon. As an instructor, she has taught through Parks & Recreation, The Public Unified School District, as well as, privately.
She entered voice over acting when audio engineer Ron Calonje got her an audition for game company, Strategic Simulations—she was subsequently cast in 1995. Since then she has worked on Broadcast, CD-Rom, Film and Industrial Narration projects, including all of the female characters for the international award-winning game Warlords Battlecry III,The Director in the cult-classic by Telltale Games, Sam & Max and supplying the voice of The Computer for Hollywood Pictures' Judge Dredd.
AMY WINEHOUSE INTERVIEWS SARAH PALIN
Hey D..thx for the shout and for the kind words.. yeah Margrit was very cool, and rocked! glad the east coast/west coast piano player club is representin'! ;).. hope u are well.. -c
hilarius:)...you are such a great actress....you are a triple threat, dance, sing and act :)...is that someone to watch over me a new version...you sound so amazing...when are you performing? You should play philz...of course keyboards, his piano is only decoration.
I had to listen to "gray man" about three times. Quite haunting. I love that style of lyric, braiding disparate connections into a fusion of feeling. (so to speak) Ok, I'm jealous. I wish I had written it. ;-)
hey Dianne..thx for finding me on here, and thx for the compliment! :) was nice meeting and hearing you @ Vivaldi as well! hope to see you around again soon..-c btw, i have a show thurs night in the LES @ a place w/ a great grand piano!..if you're free.. (info on my page)..c ya..
