I have been writing, recording and performing music and working as a performer in experimental theatre productions in both the USA and Europe for many years. How many is that? Well, enough to make me highly experienced without being ancient or dead. I've performed at all different levels: from tiny basement punk rock clubs to festival stages, concert halls to cathedrals, street corners to stadiums...(OK not stadiums). My style ranges pretty far and wide as you'll see from the small sampling on this page featuring collaborations with a Mongolian throat singer and moorin khor player; a Germany-based trio of cello, electric bass w effects and me; a dirty blues jam with organ and gospel choir; art-song with African harp and electric guitar ... After living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, London and Paris, I now make my home in Brighton, UK, not far from where I was born, the ancient city of Canterbury (alternative etymology: "sing town"). I don't like talking about music - as someone once said it's like trying to dance about architecture and so I can't really say what music and singing mean to me, or what my "approach" to writing is. Let's just say it's what I do, I can't stop and it keeps me alive. I hope you can hear that in the music and that it moves you. I am also an activist with my main concern being Climate Chaos and the devastating effects overpopulation and materialism have on the environment. Also trying to spread the word about the unbelievable scam at the centre of our monetary system - please read "Web of Debt" by Ellen Brown! My observations about politics and society form the basis of satirical performance poems and songs which are currently being developed into a comedic one-woman show. (Can I still call it a one-woman show if someone plays guitar for me....?) Please also check out this organisation www.simpol.org - a vision for shifting the global paradigm from destructive competition to creative co-operation. x x x
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HEY LADY~ I FINALLY GOT A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN AND REALLY LISTEN TO ALL OF YOUR TRACKS HERE~ BEAUTFUL WORK! WHAT A GREAT VOICE YOU HAVE! I REALLY LOVEDTHE SUCCUBUS SONG SOOO MUCH..MAGIC! THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE A WONDERFUL LITTLE DITTY I DISCOVERED RECENTLY~
Hey Diana Rosa's Friends - this is the page for my new workshop: Adventures in Voice! xxx Hope to see you at this or a future event - also open to booking at a venue near you - just get in touch!
hello doll, hope yr shows were good! I send you a letter tomorrow and what kind of cake do you like??? as the best cakes come from Vienna and only da best for you!!! kisses
what a question. its like asking our drummer to play with hot rods. basicaly its like saying, "yeah can you just play something that totally doesn't suit your sound because i have no idea what the fuck i'm doing please?"
idiots. i think its fair enough you stormed off. neighbours suck. what ever happened to being rock and roll!?
I would love to be there! June is a bit undecided, as I have been asked to do a television thing in Norway around the same time, need to sort out some dates before I can say for sure where I will be :) Thanks a million for keeping me updated. You are a sweetheart. Speak soon x
hi Diana, pleasure to meet you on myspace, and yes Serge is a good friend of mine :) and hopefully we'll meet in Essaouira... best. To get hard copies and high-quality downloads of Halalwood click here
U-CEF Halalwood
First there was Hollywood…then Bollywood…and now…Halalwood, Morocco's first and foremost digitalizer's debut album for Crammed.
‘Halalwood’ is a tour-de-force which puts gnawa music, dub, sinuous classic Arabic arrangements for qanun, flute & violins, electronic beats, rappers & MCs, big drums & crunchy rock guitars in a giant blender to produce something fresh and original… U-Cef has all the legitimacy & inspiration needed to navigate between cultures, without any prejudices, disrespect or fear: Born and raised in Rabat, he absorbed much of his native Morocco's multiple traditions before moving first to New York and then to London, immersing himself along the way in the Western world's electronic & rock scenes. His first CD ‘Halalium’ (2001) was a milestone in Moroccan urban dance music, and has inspired a whole generation of rappers, b-boys and pro-tools adventurers, from Tangiers to Taroudant and Melilla to Marrakech.
Featuring an exciting cast of high-profile guests including Damon Albarn, Natacha Atlas, Rachid Taha, Mirror System (Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy), Oum Alright, UK Apache, Amina Annabi, Justin Adams and Moroccan rap duo Dar G
