Diana Anaid was born on 8 April 1976 and is the performance name of Diana Gosper, an Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter.
18 Facts About Diana Anaid
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Diana Anaid was born as Diana Gosper, in Newcastle, on 8 April 1976.
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Diana Anaid's mother died when Anaid was one year old.
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Diana Anaid undertook a year of education in Canberra, and with her then-partner, returned to Lismore.
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At the age of 16 Diana Anaid had a son, Stone, and, for three years, she dropped out of the music industry to look after him.
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Diana Anaid's sponsor was a Greenpeace activist from the Netherlands.
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Diana Anaid sent a copy to Triple J's radio presenter, Richard Kingsmill, who played its lead track, "I Go Off".
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Early in 1998 Diana Anaid supported concerts by Cake, Wendy Matthews and The Whitlams.
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Diana Anaid followed with an appearance at SXSW in Austin, Texas and gigs in New York and Los Angeles.
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Diana Anaid developed a cyst on her vocal cords, which she had surgically removed in 1998.
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Diana Anaid's backing band were Natt Prang on guitar, Doug E Styles on drums and Jed Venus on bass guitar.
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Diana Anaid was the first artist Palmer signed to his own label, Five Crowns Records.
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Diana Anaid toured and promoted her material in the United States.
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Diana Anaid issued her first live album, Live at the Bush Theatre, on 20 February 2007, via her own label Forola Music.
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On 25 September 2009 her next single, "Cynical on Waking", was released ahead of her fourth studio album, Diana Anaid, which appeared in February 2010.
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Diana Anaid undertook a tour of the east coast of Australia during October 2009.
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In January 2011, Diana Anaid was nominated in the 10th Annual Independent Music Awards for her song "Charity" in the Sing Out for Social Action Song category.
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In February 2017 Diana Anaid announced that she had recorded her fifth album, titled My Queen.