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Artist
Di Anne Price
12+ albums
blues
about
Memphis pianist-vocalist Di Anne Price channels the spirit of classic blues divas Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Stippie Wallace, and Memphis Minnie. A profoundly soulful singer, Price’s expressive voice is etched with pain or brimming with sly humor while tickling the ivories barrel piano style on two-fisted shuffles, rolling blues, and boogie woogie workouts. - Jazz Times Di Anne learned to play piano and the blues when she was 4 years old. She started playing it for money when she was 5 or 6, made her first tape when she was 9 and has recorded several others since then. In fact, she hasn’t gone a week in the 53 years since without a musical paycheck. “Both my parents were very much into the music, and so if I hadn’t wanted to do it, I wouldn’t have had a choice,” she says. “But I always wanted to do it. I don’t know of anything I would want to do other than this.” Born and raised in Memphis, Price works 9 to 5 as a social director at a nursing home. But most nights of the week she can be found playing and singing in bars and restaurants or special events around town, sometimes with, sometimes without, her band, the Uptown All-Stars or “my boyfriends,” as she calls them. Price’s music, barrelhouse piano and “good times” blues, harkens back to the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s, and she takes as her models everyone from Fats Waller to Memphis Minnie to Tony Bennett. Her songwriting mother is in there, too. Price describes her own voice as “a throwback to another time. It’s smoky, i
