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Diamanda Galás
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Diamanda Galás

Avant-garde vocalist and composer of political solo works

Modern classicalExperimental electronicA/V

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Galás works with voice as the main instrument: operatic leaps, keening high register, spoken passages, and long-held notes that turn into plain force. Her sets usually move between unaccompanied singing, piano, and stark dramatic pacing rather than anything club-shaped.

More about Diamanda Galás

San Diego-born and rooted in the US avant-garde, she came up through classical and jazz as well as her father’s Greek family and gospel setting. Her name sits alongside Plague Mass, Defixiones: Orders from the Dead, and The Refugee, and her work has stayed tied to AIDS activism, exile, and political mourning.

Playing

For fans of

Meredith Monk, Joan La Barbara, Anohni, Laibach

Official links

Plan Unsound 2026/warszawa-krakow with Songpot · Ask about Diamanda Galás in ChatGPT or Claude