Talk:Diamanda Galás

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Contents 1 Pronunciation 2 Eyesight? 3 Removal 4 Picture

[edit] Pronunciation

Does anyone know how to correctly pronounce her name? I feel rather foolish, as after seeing her perform live recently I've instantly become a fan, but I still don't know how her name is pronounced(!) Absolutely fantastic concert, too. She didn't say anything (aside from singing) the entire show (part of the mystique perhaps?) I was hoping she'd at least say her name :) Apologies in advance for improper talk page protocol. I'm a non-wikipedian.

There existed an audio interview with her, encoded into several MP3s and offered on the official site, where the interviewer introduces her as - excuse my Americanist phonetic transcription - DEE-uh-mahn-duh gah-LAHSS. She doesn't correct him. (Really nice interview too, if you can still find it.)
I too was in the dark about the pronunciation of her name until hearing the interview.

[edit] Eyesight?

I heard Diamanda was partially sighted or even blind, is this true? Is it worth adding to the article? Brian Fenton 11:31, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

If you can find a reliable source for the information, feel free to add it, along with the source. Mak (talk) 15:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal

I removed

Galás herself suffers from hepatitis C. "I have Hepatitis C, so the parallels are quite close with HIV, if somewhat different," she related in a 2006 interview with Michael Evans.[1] "It's so huge now. So many people have hepatitis now. You see magazines now describe it as the AIDS of the new millennia. How stupid."

which is a misquote on several counts; i'll state other objections to its restoration later.
--Jerzy•t 23:29, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

The picture up right now is really embarrassing. Can we do better? Mistertruffles (talk) 17:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)