GAL'S, Diamanda
(*1955)
GAL'S, Diamanda (29 August 1955). Drawing upon experience of both Jazz and opera, as well as her ease with languages other than English, Galàs has created a highly aggressive singing style that can exploit not only her wide vocal range but new technologies to create “songs” of unprecedented hysteria. The result is high-tech emotive singing in the tradition of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Johnny Ray on the one hand and Maria Callas on the other. Anger is the principal emotion of Galàs’s…