About

Diane Nalini is an award-winning jazz vocalist, songwriter, voice and ukulele teacher who has released five critically-acclaimed albums. She writes and sings in four languages and has performed at jazz festivals around the world. She has given gala performances for President Bill Clinton and Sir Paul McCartney. The Montreal Gazette writes, “Diane Nalini has the voice, the phrasing, confidence, clarity and control to make a tune her own and turn it into a nuanced thing of beauty.” Diane’s songs have been used in films, TV shows and video games. Since 2014, she has been the resident vocalist with the Ottawa Jazz Orchestra.

Diane fell in love with the ukulele in 2016 and studied with ukulele maestros Sarah Maisel and Craig Chee, taking workshops with Benny Chong and James Hill along the way. Diane has taught and performed at the Strathmore UkeFest, the MidWest Uke Camp, the Aurora City Of Lights Ukulele Festival, Uketober Fest, and the Port Townsend Ukulele Fest. In 2020 at the start of lockdown, she and her husband, bassist Adrian Cho, launched a warmly received, free weekly livestream concert series on YouTube. It drew viewers from around the world, spreading cheer and always ending in a weekly singalong. She also created and hosted two highly successful editions of the online Ukulele Jazz Festival.

Diane has developed video lessons for three Ukulele Guides published by Ukulele Magazine: Baby Songs and Lullabies for Beginning Ukulele, Traditional Songs for Beginning Ukulele, and Christmas Songs for Beginning Ukulele.

She was commissioned by Ukulele Magazine to write an article and create an accompanying video lesson about the Roman Numeral System, which ended up ranking number one in Ukulele Magazine’s countdown of ten most popular lessons, stories and videos of 2024.

For more info, visit: www.dianenalini.com