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Diamanda Galas

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The Resume

    (August 29, 1955- )
    Born in San Diego, California
    Avant-garde composer, singer, pianist and performance artist
    Recorded the albums 'The Litanies of Satan' (1982), 'The Divine Punishment' (1986), 'Saint of the Pit' (1986), 'You Must Be Sure of the Devil' (1988), 'Plague Mass' (1991), 'The Singer' (1992), 'The Sporting Life' (1994), 'Malediction & Prayer' (1998) and 'Guilty Guilty Guilty' (2008)

Why she might be annoying:

    She was a prostitute.
    She is obsessed with vampires.
    She said she is 'deeply disappointed' by her heterosexuality.
    After she was arrested for disrupting services at St. Patrick's Cathedral, she refused to do community service, saying 'I've been in jail before, that's no big deal. But I'm not going to clean the fucking subway, that's too demeaning.' (1989)
    If you find Yoko Ono too melodic for your tastes, she might be just the singer for you.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was a piano soloist with the Symphonic Orchestra of San Diego at age 14.
    She recorded a trilogy of albums about the AIDS epidemic, redoubling her efforts on them after her brother, playwright Philip-Dimitri Galas, was diagnosed with the disease.
    She collaborated with Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones on 'The Sporting Life.'
    She provided the voices of the dead in the film 'The Serpent and the Rainbow' and a group of female vampires in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula.'
    'Time Out London' declared, 'There is no other voice in rock, jazz or the avant-garde with her violence, consuming passion and pure elemental force.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 18 Votes: 94.44% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 84.62% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 27 Votes: 70.37% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 76 Votes: 60.53% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 189 Votes: 66.14% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 27 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 89 Votes: 60.67% Annoying