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Multiple issues| BLP sources = November 2010| refimprove = January 2011Infobox musical artist| name = Diane Schuur| image =| caption =| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1953|12|10|mf=y|birth_place = Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma , Washington (U.S. state)|Washington United States | death_date =| instrument = Singing|Vocals , Piano | genre = Jazz , Blues , Pop music|Pop | occupation = Musician | years_active = 1979–present| label = GRP Records|GRP , Concord Records|Concord | website = URL|www.DianeSchuur.com Diane Schuur (b. December 10, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma , Washington (U.S. state)|Washington ) is an United States|American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Deedles", she has won two Grammy Awards , headlined many of the world's most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has toured the world performing with such greats as Quincy Jones , Stan Getz , B. B. King , Dizzy Gillespie , Maynard Ferguson , Ray Charles , Joe Williams (jazz singer) | Joe Williams and Stevie Wonder . Like Stevie Wonder, Schuur was Blindness|blinded at birth due to retinopathy of prematurity .
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Diane Schuur grew up in suburban Seattle, Washington and was encouraged by both her parents to sing. She started singing when she was a two-and-a-half, and by age nine was getting professional gigs. She has said that as a small child she would often retreat to the closet to be alone with herself and sing.cite web|url= http://abilitymagazine.com/past/sallyF/dianeS.html|title= Ability Magazine: Diane Schuur - The Hot Lady of Cool Jazz" (2009)|accessdate=2012-04-05Her early childhood music heroines were Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington . Schuur had her first gig at Tacoma's Holiday Inn at age ten in which she sang country music . Attending the Washington State School for the Blind , she began performing original material, and starting at the young age of sixteen, revealed a distinctive voice and began performing. Her big break came when Stan Getz became positive about her work on hearing her sing " Amazing Grace " at legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in 1979, returning once again in '88 and '91. In 1982, Getz asked her to join him at a performance at the White House . Nancy Reagan invited her to perform again as a vocalist with the Count Basie Orchestra in 1987. Stan Getz later played on Schuur's first three albums, Deedles (1984), Schuur Thing (1985) and Timeless (1988).cite book |last=Gelly |first=Dave |title=Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me |publisher=Backbeat Books |page=159 |year=2005 |isbn=0-87930-729-3
Schuur's debut album, Deedles , was released in 1984, the first of several recordings to showcase her vocal abilities. In 1985, while on tour in the Far East, Schuur met B.B. King when the two of them played a music festival in Tokyo . Schurr and King eventually made an album together, Heart to Heart released May 1994, which top the Billboard charts to number one. Twelve of Schuur's albums have reached the Top 10 Jazz Albums on Billboard history charts, including her latest Diane Schuur: Live In London (2006) http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do? model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums& model.vnuArtistId=7352& model.vnuAlbumId=778820 Billboard Chart History for Diane Schuur She received her first Grammy Awards|Grammy for the album Timeless (1986), and the following year received another, for Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra (1987).
Schuur proved her staying power through the 1990s and into the 2000s, first with her 1991 follow up to ''Talkin' 'Bout You , Pure Schuur , and then with nearly an album a year from then on, including In Tribute (1992), Love Songs (1993), Heart to Heart (1994), Love Walked In (1995), Blues for Schuur (1997), Music Is My Life (1999), Friends for Schuur (2000), and Swingin' for Schuur (2001). Late in 2003, Schuur released Midnight , featuring original songs written for the album by Barry Manilow . Manilow also performs alongside Schuur on the album, along with Alan Broadbent on piano, Chuck Berghofer on bass, and the drummers Harvey Mason and Peter Erskine .
Her second live album, Diane Schuur: Live In London , was released in June 2006. It is her first release on the GR2 Classics label, the 20th album of her career and was recorded at Ronnie Scott 's in Soho, London .
In 2008 she released a new studio collection entitled Some Other Time .
Career Wins: 2 http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-search,0,7169155.htmlstory? searchtype=all& query=Diane+Schuur& x=15& y=8 Grammy Awards Data Base: Diane Schuur
cite news |first=David |last=Zimmerman |date=March 7, 1988 |title=A Schuur bet as the next jazz superstar |work=USA Today |page=D4 |url= http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55813337.html? dids=55813337:55813337& FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT
cite news |first=Bill |last=Kohlhaase |date=January 14, 1995 |title=Happiness Is Now a Schuur Thing Jazz: After years of personal struggle, the singer, who performs tonight in Cerritos with the Count Basie Orchestra, is wearing a smile |work=Los Angeles Times |page=F2 |url= http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/21445926.html? dids=21445926:21445926& FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT
cite web |first=Donna |last=Kimura |year=2001 |title=Swingin' with Diane Schuur |url= http://www.jazzreview.com/articledetails.cfm? ID=547 |publisher=Jazz Review |accessdate=January 19, 2011
Persondata | NAME = Schuur, Diane | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American jazz musician | DATE OF BIRTH = December 10, 1953 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma , Washington (U.S. state)|Washington United States | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Schuur, Diane Category:American jazz singers Category:American jazz pianists Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:People from Tacoma, Washington Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Blind musicians Category:Musicians from Washington (state) Category:Female jazz musicians Category:GRP Records artists Category:Heads Up International artists
