Diana Panton

Diana Panton is a Canadian jazz vocalist. Her album, blue, was awarded the 2023 Silver Disc Award by Japan's Jazz Critique Magazine. Her albums Yesterday Perhaps and Pink were awarded Silver Discs upon their release in Japan. blue also earned Panton her eighth JUNO nomination at the 2023 JUNO Awards in Canada. She won a Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year in 2017 for I Believe in Little Things and a 2015 Juno award for Vocal Jazz Album for RED.[1][2][3] She received JUNO nominations for her albums Cheerful Little Earful (2020), Solstice/Equinox (2019), Christmas Kiss (2013), To Brazil with Love (2012) and If the Moon Turns Green...(2009). I Believe in Little Things debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Jazz Chart while simultaneously debuting at No. 11 on the Billboard Children's Music Chart.

Diana Panton
Diana Panton in 2015
Diana Panton in 2015
Background information
Birth nameDiana Ariadne Panton
BornHamilton, Ontario, Canada
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Vocalist
Years active2000–present
LabelseOne
Websitewww.dianapanton.com

Career

Panton's early jazz influence was hearing her father play an album by Ella Fitzgerald.[3] In high school, she learned violin and clarinet, then in her last year joined the Hamilton All-Star Jazz Band.[3][4] which played in Europe and the Montreux Jazz Festival.[3] After hearing her perform with this band, multi-instrumentalist Don Thompson invited her to attend the Banff Centre, where he taught.[3] This led to Thompson's collaboration on Panton's albums a decade later.[3]

Panton holds a Master's degree in French literature from McMaster University and studied Art at the Parsons School in Paris. She has taught at Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario.[5][3]

Discography
  • ...yesterday perhaps (2005)
  • if the moon turns green... (2007)
  • pink (2009)
  • To Brazil with Love (eOne, 2011)
  • Christmas Kiss (2012)
  • RED (eOne, 2013)
  • I Believe in Little Things (eOne, 2015)
  • Solstice/Equinox (2017)
  • A Cheerful Little Earful (2019)
  • Blue (2022)

References
  1. "Red is the winning colour for Hamilton's Diana Panton". Hamilton Spectator. 15 March 2015.
  2. Friend, David (29 March 2017). "Five-time Juno nominee Diana Panton moonlights as a school teacher". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  3. Collar, Matt. "Diana Panton". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  4. "Hamilton All Star Jazz Bands Alumni". Hamilton All Star Jazz Bands. Archived from the original on 2015-11-01. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  5. "Diana Panton juggles schoolroom and mainstage". Northern Life. 8 September 2015.
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