Diamanda Galás

Diamanda Galás is a Greek-American avant-garde composer and performer whose confrontational work — combining extreme vocal technique, political urgency, and spiritual intensity — has made her one of the most significant and uncompromising artists in experimental music. She rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with the trilogy Masque of the Red Death and the performance work Plague Mass, which directly addressed the AIDS crisis with a ferocity that matched the political silence and inaction surrounding it.