Diana Piedade

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Diana Patrícia Silveira da Piedade (born April 22, 1985 - Lagos, Portugal) is a Portuguese rock singer and songwriter.

In February 2010, Diana finished as the runner-up in 2009 season 3 of Ídolos, the Portuguese version of Pop Idol, a musical TV show.

Biography

Between the ages of 15 and 19, Diana Silveira began her career as a professional singer. First with the band "Duck," and later with "Fadomorse," she recorded songs such as "Funk my Funk" from Duck and "Deicídio" from Fadomorse along with a special guest Adolfo Luxúria Canibal from a Portuguese cult band Mão Morta.

In 2004, she took part of the first cast of the Musical Theatre "Cabeças no Ar" written by author Carlos Té and directed by Adriano Luz at the "Teatro Municipal de Lisboa, S. Luiz".

Throughout her living period in Paris from 2006 to 2009, she did backing vocals for a Pink Floyd Tribute Band.

In February 2010, Diana finished as the runner-up in 2009 season 3 of Ídolos, the Portuguese version of Pop Idol, a musical TV show.

Considered by the media as "Best New Artist" in 2010, the charismatic figure and voice of Diana takes her to the Rock in Rio music festival in Lisbon. It is with the band HAIL! that Diana assumes her heavy-metal vein, alongside Andreas Kisser (Sepultura), Ripper Owens [YNGWIE MALMSTEEN and ex-JUDAS PRIEST], Paul Bostaph (Slayer, Testament, Exodus) and James Lomezo (White Lion and Black Label Society, Megadeth).

Between May and September 2010, the Sileira performed with the national tour "Rock ON Diana". Along with Ivo Perpétuo, Vasco Moura, Hugo Palma, Ademar Alves and Bruno Victor Martins, the tour took place and led to the creation of a music project called 3:33 that ended 2012 after one EP ("EUFÊMEA") and another national tour.

Among some advertising works like the biggest campaign of SONAE calendar ("Popota e o Natal", 2010/2012) and pro-Bono participations as well as solidarity events, the voice of Diana Silveira also became part of a big YouTube hit "Margem Sul State of Mind" with Rui Unas, a satire on the everyday life of some Portuguese people based on the music "New York State of Mind" from Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.

In 2011, Silveira she made an appearance on the soundtrack of the award-winning short film TEJO by Francisco Baptista and Henrique Pina. That same year, Silveira met Gary Lucas, an American guitarist, Grammy-nominated songwriter, and known developer of musicians such as Jeff Buckley and Captain Beefheart. Diana was invited to participate in a concert tribute to Jeff Buckley at the Knitting Factory concert house in New York, where she received very positive recognition by the New York's music scene critics.

In January 2012, she was invited once again by Gary Lucas to perform, now in Portugal, at Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon and Plan B, Oporto.

In October 2013, the book Touched by Grace--My Time with Jeff Buckley by Gary Lucas was published, and Diana appeared in the book alongside the American guitarists as part of his story with Jeff Buckley. In November, Diana flew to London to be part of the official release of the book, performing at the Southbank Center on the 14th Nov with Gary Lucas, Najma Akhtar, Mari Conti and Frances Brennand Roper.

In 2015, Silveira represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Maldito Tempo". She ended up finishing fourth place on her semifinal at the Portuguese preselection, named Festival da Canção.

Idols

Curiosities

After her version of the Janis Joplin song, the video became part of a Joplin's tribute website, janisjoplin.net,^[1] becoming the first artist ever to have a video of her own on this website, besides Joplin.

Also, after her performance on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", Diana made it again to a main site of dedicated fans. This time was the site led-zeppelin.org^[2] - Achilles Last Stand (online since 1996), the biggest fan site of the band, that referred her performance.

According to the jury of the contest, her version of "E Depois do Adeus" was the best performance in all the seasons of Portuguese Idols until the date.

During summer, the singer gave many concerts in her own name, performing with a live band "Les Miserables", composed by Ivo Perpétuo on guitar, Vasco Moura on bass, Hugo Palma on drums and also the special guest, guitarist Tuniko Goulart. During the performances were explored various styles from rock to the blues, from Jimi Hendrix to Queens of the Stone Age.

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