Deanna Kirk

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
Kirk 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."

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, 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.

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. 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."

Personal life
Kirk 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

 * Live at Deanna's (Atlantic, 1994)
 * Marianna Trench (Blackbird, 1996)
 * Where Are You Now? (Blackbird, 1997)
 * Beautyway (Deanna Kirk, 2002)
 * Lost in Languid Love Songs (Deanna Kirk, 2013)