Diane Birch is tagged as: soul, female vocalists, singer-songwriter, folk, blues With a childhood spent on the move, as the daughter of a preacher, living between Zimbabwe, South Africa and Australia, before her parents finally settled in Portland, Oregon when she was in her early teens, Diane Birch absorbed a unique and very cosmopolitan perspective on life that shines through her music and makes a simple categorization of it impossible. Trained as a classical pianist using Suzuki methodology (playing by ear at a young age following Suzuki’s theory of language acquisition, where a child learns to speak before learning to read), Diane rapidly moved away from any confines of tradition, cultivating a very individual style and composing her own material. With an obvious abundance of talent and a passion for performing, it wasn’t long before she realized that if she wanted to pursue a career in music she would probably be better served in Los Angeles, where both the film and record industries could be explored. Working by day, making ends meet playing piano in up-scale hotels and bars, and then by night performing her own material in muso joints across the city, Diane rapidly attracted the attention of Hollywood’s ‘great and good’, and before long the invitations had started to pour in to ‘jam with Prince and his band at ... Read More About Diane Birch Biography... Send Diane Birch ringtones to your cell |
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