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Diana Krall is photogenic and she knows it. Twelve-count-em-12 photos of herself grace the cover of her album "When I look In your Eyes" (Verve). "I wish I really looked like that," she says about the album's emblem cover shot, in which she looks like a fashion model in flight - her head flung back streaming blonde hair behind and a carefree smile on her face. She thinks she looks "wrecked" in person from working too hard.
Riding the up-escalator in the department store Printemps, she passed floor upon floor with walls covered by poster-size full-color reproductions of the album cover. It was like Printemps was having a sale of Diana Krall wallpaper. She says she felt "embarrassed" by her image being all over the store, which was sponsoring a showcase performance in their small hall on top. Still, there it was. And the use of her beauty to promote her voice has since become more exploitive. However, this is about music.
The best thing, she says, about her increasing success as a vocalist is "the pleasure it gives my parents." They were riding up the Printemps escalator with her. Meeting them in Paris, their first time in the city, was so important to her that she didn't really feel like talking about much else. Every day with them has been "party time" since her mother recovered from a bone-marrow transplant a few years ago: "My mom's jaw dropped open when she saw all of those posters. I was so pleased." Have a look at this Music to Play for more examples, hints, tips and information.
Such terms as "big-time" and "big star" embarrass Krall, although they are increasingly apt. The only difference between then and now, she says, is being able to afford a hotel room with enough floor space to open up her suitcases (she travels heavy). It is nevertheless true that their nature - both the rooms and the suitcases - has also improved. Her 1997 album "Love Scenes" sold over 600,000 copies in North America, plus more than 100,000 in Europe and Japan.
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