DIANA KRALL: LIVE IN RIO

In case you missed it in 2009, we suggest you catch up with Diana Krall’s Live in Rio DVD.

Accompanied by her longtime band and a splendid Brazilian orchestra, Diana delivers a superb set of standards in true Bossa Nova fashion.

The concert is beautifully photographed and features an impeccable line up of songs. It is Diana Krall at her scintillating best.

She closes her show with Jimmy McHugh’s knock out Exactly Like You.

Want to see it? Click here and enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-G3vJkJrgg

http://www.dianakrall.com/

Putting Her Stamp on Show Business

The US Postal Service has just released a Carmen Miranda 

postage stamp.

In 1940 the outrageous Ms Miranda, dubbed the Brazilian Bombshell exploded onto movie screens starring alongside  Don Ameche and Betty Grable in Down Argentine Way.

The film’s centerpiece is the South American Way production number, performed by Carmen and written by that famed Latin American composer, Jimmy McHugh. 

The Carmen Miranda stamp is one in a series of five commemorative issues saluting Latin American music. The other honorees are Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Carlos Gardel and Selena.

Here’s a clip of South American Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwQN4UeF8E

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13147071