Diamanda Galás

Diamanda Galás was born on Aug 29, 1952 in USA. Diamanda Galás's big-screen debut came with The Serpent and the Rainbow directed by Wes Craven in 1988.

Raised in San Diego, California, Galás was born to Greek Orthodox parents, who always encouraged her gift for piano. Galás studied a wide range of musical forms, as well as visual-art performance, and then moved to to Europe where 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.