Kristin Diable & The City

Baton Rouge native — Based in New Orleans since 2009

Kristin Diable & The City is a New Orleans Americana-soul outfit fronted by Baton Rouge-born singer-songwriter Kristin Diable, whose smoky, playful voice has drawn comparisons to Amy Winehouse. Her Dave Cobb-produced album Create Your Own Mythology (2015, Thirty Tigers) earned an NPR First Listen, while her songs have soundtracked HBO’s True Blood and Treme, CBS’s Hawaii Five-0, and Netflix’s Virgin River.

Never heard Kristin Diable & The City before?

🎵 Breakthrough

“Create Your Own Mythology” (2015)

🎤 Produced By

Dave Cobb

📺 Heard On

True Blood · Treme · Hawaii Five-0

Diable has the same grit lining her throat that Amy Winehouse had, but sings from a place of levity that Winehouse never found.

— NPR Music

Why We Love Kristin Diable

Kristin Diable writes songs that sound like they have always existed — patient, spiritual, and curious, in her own words. A Baton Rouge native who started playing underground clubs as a teenager, detoured to New York City at eighteen, and came home to New Orleans in 2009, she has spent two decades honing an Americana-soul-roots craft all her own: smoky vocals, timeless melodies, and lyrics that channel the mystical within the everyday. Dave Cobb took notice, Hollywood took notice — her songs have scored everything from True Blood to Virgin River — and New Orleans took her back, where she now teaches the next generation of songwriters at Loyola. The City backs her with the easy swagger of Louisiana roots; Diable does the rest.

Biography

A Southern Original’s Own Mythology

Born in Baton Rouge, Kristin Diable began her musical career as a young teenager playing underground clubs in south Louisiana. At eighteen she moved to New York City, expanding her musical palette and earning mainstream industry attention for the first time. But she followed her muse home in the late 2000s, settling in New Orleans in 2009 and founding her own Speakeasy Records.

She released the solo EP Extended Play in 2009, followed by the album Kristin Diable and the City in 2012, which drew regional acclaim and placed songs in episodes of HBO’s True Blood and Treme. Her third full-length and first national release, Create Your Own Mythology (2015, Speakeasy/Thirty Tigers), was produced by Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell), premiered on NPR’s First Listen, and earned four stars from American Songwriter — “look for Kristin Diable to be one of the year’s breakout artists.” Singles “I’ll Make Time for You” and “Honey, Leave the Light On” carried the record, the latter featured in season seven of Hawaii Five-0.

Beyond the stage, her songs have appeared in Magnum P.I., MacGyver, Netflix’s Virgin River, and Amazon’s One Mississippi; she co-wrote and starred in the award-winning short film Forever Waves. An annual feature at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Diable is also a professor and songwriter at Loyola University New Orleans, mentoring the next generation of Louisiana musicians. Her recent album Impossible Things celebrated its release at Chickie Wah Wah.