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Artist
Diana Winter
12+ albums
soulsinger-songwriterkgrlfemale vocalistfemale vocalists
about
Since early childhood Diana Winter has experienced different languages and cultures and developed an early love of music. Growing up in a very musical family –her mother is an accomplished classical pianist–as a child she listened to everything from Bach to Satchmo. She started early classical guitar studies at 10, focusing after some years on more modern guitar players such as De Moraes, Pernambuco, Brower, and Brindle. A curiosity for anything concerning self expression soon turned towards songwriting: she gave up the idea of the conservatory and wrote her first song at fourteen. Her vocal training started in a Gospel Choir, and soon her models included Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Sananda Maitreya, and Sarah Vaughan. The experience in Gospel contributed to Diana Winter’s belief that in music, as in any religion, evocative power is the strongest alchemy that can take place between people. She tried to express this intuition in her first album “Escapizm”. As a teenager, while performing in various local clubs, she started making her own way in the music business. Those years didn’t seem to lead her anywhere, because she found it impossible to compromise with certain situations. She was discovered in 2004 by the arranger, guitarist and producer Fabio Balestrieri, and the result was her first album Escapizm. ABOUT ESCAPIZM The album was produced by Fabio Balestrieri for Kouyatè and recorded over two years in Italy, Belgium and the UK. The reason being the collaboration with P
