Diana Panton

Diana Panton is a Canadian jazz vocalist. 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 has also received five 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 #8 on the Billboard Jazz Chart while simultaneously debuting at #11 on the Billboard Children's Music Chart. Her first album, ...Yesterday Perhaps, and her third album, Pink, were awarded Silver Disc Awards by Japan's Jazz Critique Magazine.

Diana Panton
Diana Panton in 2015
Background information
Birth nameDiana Ariadne Panton
BornHamilton, Ontario, Canada
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Vocalist
Labels0
Websitewww.dianapanton.com

Panton started her music career as a member of the Hamilton All Star Jazz Bands.[4] After hearing her perform with this band, veteran multi-instrumentalist Don Thompson (Order of Canada) invited her to attend the Banff Centre, where he was a faculty member. 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 teaches French, art, and drama at Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario.[5][3]

Discography
Year Album
2005 ...Yesterday Perhaps
2007 If the Moon Turns Green...
2009 Pink
2011 To Brazil with Love
2012 Christmas Kiss
2013 Little Gems and Other Keepsakes
2013 RED
2014 My Heart Sings (Live in Taipei, Asia only release)
2015 I Believe in Little Things
2017 Solstice / Equinox
2018 Yes, Please! (Compilation disc, Asia only release)
2019 A Cheerful Little Earful

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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