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Laila Biali (born 3 October 1980) is a Canadian Vocal jazz and pianist. She has been nominated for and won a Juno Award and has worked with Chris Botti and Sting. Sting Website news article: 24 November 2009
She moved to New York City and found work as a pianist and vocalist for other musicians. While touring with Paula Cole, she met drummer Ben Wittman, and she and Wittman later married. In 2009 she sang background vocals for Sting's DVD . She toured with Chris Botti and Suzanne Vega. She has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City and at Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto. Roy Thomson Website Article
Her second album, Tracing Light (2010), received a Juno Award nomination. She recorded House of Many Rooms (2014) with strings and the Toronto Mass Choir. For this album Biali wrote songs and the arrangements. In 2014, she joined the female band Rose & the Nightingale. A few years later she appeared as guest host for Tonic, a jazz program on CBC Radio 2, then became the regular host for Saturday Night Jazz.
Her self-titled 2018 album won the Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. "Junos 2019: the complete list of winners". CBC Music, 16 March 2019.
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