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Avant-garde vocalist and composer of political solo works
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.
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.
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