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Diamanda Galás

Born

in San Diego, California, The United States

August 29, 1955

Website

http://www.diamandagalas.com/

Genre

Poetry

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Diamanda Galás is an American-born avant-garde performance artist, vocalist, keyboardist, and composer of Greek heritage.

Known for her expert piano as well as her distinctive, operatic voice, which has a three and a half octave range, Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror." Galás often shrieks, howls, and seems to imitate glossolalia in her performances. Her works largely concentrate on the topics of suffering, despair, condemnation, injustice and loss of dignity. Critic Robert Conroy has said that she is "unquestionably one of the greatest singers America has ever produced", and comparisons are frequently made between her and another singer of Greek origin, Maria Callas.

She has worked with many avant-garde ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 202 ratings · 27 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Shit of God by Diamanda Galás, Clive Barker (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Closed on Account of Rabies by Edgar Allan Poe, Marianne Faithfull (Narrator), Abel Ferrara (Narrator) 3.11 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	High Risk 2: Writings on Sex, Death, and Subversion by Amy Scholder (editor), Ira Silverberg (editor), Stewart Home (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plague Mass by Galas, Diamanda (1991) Audio CD it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shit of God: The Texts of Diamanda Galás (High Risk) by Diamanda Galás (1-Jun-1996) Hardcover 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Do You Take This Man? by Diamanda Galas 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fringecore #5 Spoken Weird Issue: Beyond Transgression: The Spoken Weird Issue by Diamanda Galás, Mike Diana Modi, Ron Whitehead 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"

And he says,
How much time do you want?”
― Diamanda Galas, The Shit of God

tags: devil, time

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“I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.”
― Diamanda Galás

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“Robbery is not just the robbery of money or human flesh; it involves the soul murder of cultures which will soon die if they have no more songs to sing.”
― Diamanda Galás

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