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Diamanda Galás Discusses Her 13 Favourite Albums
The Quietus , August 1st, 2012 06:24

Diamanda Galás plays the one of the opening concerts of Antony Hegarty's Meltdown Festival at London's Southbank Centre tonight. In advance of the performance, she tells us about 13 albums that have been influential on her life and work

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Edwin Hawkins Singers (and before) - 'Oh Happy Day'

When all was lost, this song would bring the Heavens to me if I sang it, and I did many times in darkness and despair and I was redeemed. This was the 1970s.