Deanna Kirk is an American jazz singer and songwriter based in New York City. She also owned Deanna's, a jazz club in downtown Manhattan.
Career
editKirk is known as jazz cabaret singer, songwriter and night club owner but "she's really an art-rock diva in the tradition of Tori Amos and Sarah McLaughlan" writing "romantically philosophical" lyrics and takes on an alter-ego "Marianna."[1]
Kirk has released one live jazz album, Live at Deanna's, as well as a studio album, Marianna Trench, which featured original songs and covers of songs by Leonard Cohen and Sandy Denny. Billboard magazine featured her on their front page as the flagship artist at Blackbird Recording Company. She was featured in People magazine, the New York Times,[2] Time Out, and New York magazine.
Kirk wrote and recorded a second studio album released in 2002, Where Are You Now for Blackbird/Elektra. For a change of pace, she included the track, “You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch.” She toured North America with Jane Siberry.[3]
She has written and recorded songs for film and television soundtracks. Her music has been featured in the television shows as Felicity and Hyperion Bay and on the movie soundtracks Down to You (2000) and Me Myself I (2000).
In the mid 1990's Kirk opened Deanna's, a "popular East Village hole-in-the-wall jazz club" on East 7th Street, where she performed standards. She reopened a more upscale Deanna's on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side.[4]. The club's history and the fire that destroyed the East Village location is recounted in Ballad of the Small Cafe, on Kirk's album, "Where Are You Now."[1]
Personal life
editKirk was born in Manhattan and grew up in Freeport, Long Island. Her father, David, is a retired Navy Captain and architect and her mother, Anna Maria, teaches voice and performs around the New York region. Kirk is a concert-level pianist and her two sisters are both multi-instrumentalists.
Discography
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Himes, Geoffrey (November 28, 1997). ". Jane Siberry "Child (Music for the Christmas Season) Sheeba, Deanna Kirk "Where Are You Now" Blackbird". Washington Post. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ Lee, Chang (9 June 2009). "Second Chance". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ^ Eckert, Ginger (28 November 1997). "Jane Siberry". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ^ Botton, Sari (October 31, 1999). "A NIGHT OUT WITH: Deanna Kirk; Grown-Up Crooning". New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Deanna Kirk | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 September 2017.