Diamanda Galas is a challenging and compelling vocalist, pianist, composer and performer.

A resident of New York City since 1989, Diamanda Galas was born to Anatolian and Greek parents who encouraged her gift for piano.

She studied a wide range of musical forms as well as visual-art performance before moving to Europe.  There she made her performance debut at the Festival d'Avignon in France in 1979, performing the lead in the opera "Un Jour Comme Un Autre" by composer Vinko Globokar based upon the Amnesty International documentation of the arrest and torture of a Turkish woman for alleged treason.

Galas released her first recorded work in 1982 and her numerous musical and theatrical workd have since included the pivotal "Plague Mass" (1990), a haunting mass for people with AIDS; "Vena Cava" (1992), a solo voice and electronic work concerning AIDS dementia and clinical depression; "Schrei 27" (1996), which deals with torture and isolation; the concerts/recordings of  "Malediction and Prayer" (1998), "Judgement Day", "Concert For The Damned", "The Masque Of The Red Death" (1984 - 1988) and most recently "La Serpenta Canta" (2004), a greatest-hits collection from Hank Williams to Ornette Coleman and '"Defixiones, Will and Testament" (2004).

In 2005 she was awarded Italy's prestigious Demetrio Stratos International Career Award.  Diamanda Galas continues to write, record and perform to great acclaim around the world.