About Me
Diane Durrett is a singer/songwriter/producer/author. Diane sings and writes songs about real life; inspiring love, hope and uplifting audiences wherever she performs. She serves on the Atlanta Board of the Recording Academy best known for the Grammys. Diane is a 2017 Global Peace Award winner for her songs “Be Somebodys Angel” & “The River Sings”.
She’s a soulful singer who loves to share her positive message songs of overcoming loss, faith, finding what makes your soul sing and enjoying life. In 2015 Diane won the ‘Peoples Choice Award’ by the Atlanta Blues Society, as a well as awarded the ‘Best Self-Produced Album’. Her album “Soul Suga’ & Diane Durrett” received national & international attention charting in the Top 10 of the Roots Music Report Contemporary Blues chart.
With a blend of raw soulful vocals, sultry tones and strong original songs Durrett has sung with Sting, The Indigo Girls, Gregg Allman and Chuck Leavell (Rolling Stones). Durrett has opened shows for Tina Turner, KoKo Taylor, Faith Hill, Little Feat, Delbert McClinton, and Derek Trucks. As well as lending her vocals to recording sessions for Grammy award winning producers Brendan O’Brien and Kristian Bush. Durrett has long reflected the musical passions that inspired her while growing up in Atlanta, GA. From her energy-driven breakthrough debut 50,000 Volts of Soul (1993) to her superbly executed Rhythm of Life (1998) to her acoustically-driven CHILL (2004), to the LIVE CD, Georgia On the Groove (2007), to the groovy Blame It On My DNA (2009) produced by Ike Stubblefield to her holiday CD Georgia Christmas (2012) to her release where she joined forces with drummers Yonrico Scott and Junebug Massey on Soul Suga’ (2015) to her epic recording of Grammy award winning song The Rose (2017) co-produced with Thom TK Kidd.
Diane’s song catalogue includes co-writes with Jerry Ragovoy, William Bell, Emily Sailers (Indigo Girls), Oliver Wood, Kristen Hall (Sugarland) and Bonnie Bramlett (Superstar). In true writer’s spirit, Diane also, authored a book entitled “Driving Music City” published by Amazon in 2009. Durrett started her artist development company Blooming Tunes in 2010. Since then she has produced albums, coached vocalists and provided artist consultation. Diane serves as chair of the City of Pine Lake Arts Panel.
She sings from her soul, writes with heart & humor.
For more information: http://www.dianedurrett.com
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https://www.facebook.com/diane.durrett2http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/SoulSugaAndDianeDurrettAndSoul
https://soundcloud.com/dianedurrett/the-rose
https://youtube.com/dianedurrett
