Diana Krall: Last News

Paquin Entertainment Group, the producer and talent agency repping the likes of Michael Bublé and Bryan Adams, has hired an ex-Cineflix exec as its first Chief Operating Officer.

Chris Rock was spotted gettin’ jiggy with it at the Rolling Stones’ album release party for “Hackney Diamonds” — days after Jada Pinkett Smith’s memoir hit stands. “Chris Rock looked unbothered by all the Jada drama chatting it up with Trevor Noah,” an eyewitness tells The Post about the comedian’s outing.

Carmel Dagan Tony Bennett, the master pop vocalist who climaxed a professional career spanning eight decades with a No. 1 album at age 85, died on Friday morning in New York City. He was 96.Bennett, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016, but had continued to perform and record.His peer Frank Sinatra called him the greatest popular singer in the world. His recordings – most of them made for Columbia Records, which signed him in 1950 – were characterized by ebullience, immense warmth, vocal clarity and emotional openness. A gifted and technically accomplished interpreter of the Great American Songbook, he may be best known for his signature 1962 hit “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”

Elvis Costello drinks washing-up liquid to protect his voice, because why not?The 67-year-old star was once advised by an expert to spray washing-up liquid into his mouth as a way of preserving his most valuable asset.Recalling the advice he’s received during his career, he shared: ‘My favourite is one a renowned throat doctor told me years ago – he’s passed away now but he wrote books about the voice.‘He told me [to try] one drop of Fairy Liquid in a kind of spray you use to spray your flowers to keep greenfly away.’Elvis explained that the washing-up liquid ‘stops the cords from sticking.’He told Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware: ‘One drop of dish soap, diluted of course, and he said that stops the cords from sticking.‘You spray it into your mouth but you can’t taste it because it’s so diluted.’Earlier this year, Elvis revealed he kept his voice in good condition by performing in his garden during lockdown.The music star lives in New York and on Vancouver Island with his wife Diana Krall, and explained how he kept his voice ‘in trim’ amid the global health crisis.He said that he likes to work on new songs during the morning and singing outdoors ‘must have freaked out the neighbours.’‘I don’t have a studio at home, just a computer.

Elvis Costello has reflected on the unusual way he met his wife, in front of millions of people watching the Grammy Awards. The English singer-songwriter, born Declan Patrick MacManus, has been married to Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall since 2003. Appearing on Jessie Ware’s Table Manners podcast, which she hosts with her mother, Lennie Ware, Costello spoke about the moment they met.

A.D. Amorosi With the release of “This Dream of You,” jazz pianist and soigné contralto vocalist Diana Krall will display her usual mix of tartness and tastefulness with selections from the Great American Songbook — from Irving Berlin to Bob Dylan’s title track —  with a familiar cast of characters to go with the album’s cinematic arc.