Lynette Diaz
Lynette Diaz is an American-born, New Zealand-based Singer-Songwriter with a voice and writing style that's drawn comparison to folk contemporaries, Patty Griffin and Buffy Sainte-Marie . Lynette sings with a fiery voice that she attributes to her Mexican-American roots. “Music comes through me, it’s a passion, it’s heart-filled, it’s fun, it’s intense and it’s all rooted in my upbringing around a hodgepodge of various styles of music from 60’s and 70’s folk/country, contemporary music, independent singer-songwriter, 80’s techno and traditional Mexican folklore music.
Lynette released her debut Cd, “Lyrics In My Head’ in late 2008. The song ‘Living Before Dying’ has received honorable mention in the Unisong International Songwriting Contest and Peacedriven Song Competition. Various songs from the Cd have received airplay in NZ, Australia and United States. Lynette performed in both Seattle and New Zealand in 2009. Her 2010 schedule already includes a featured Acoustic showcase at the legendary live venue, Al's Bar, in Christchurch.
Besides her own music, she is active in promoting other New Zealand female acoustic artists through the New Zealand Women's Acoustic Collective, which she founded in 2008 . The NZWAC celebrates a sense of community and collaboration amongst member female artists.
Lynette is also the radio host of "FemAcoustica Music and Review" , a monthly radio show on Plains FM 96.9 (Christchurch), featuring female acoustic artists, with an emphasis on New Zealand music.
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The 14-tracks on her debut cd release, ‘Lyrics In My Head’ are a testament to her long journey of self-discovery, and resonates with the Universal pangs of heartbreak, loss, growth, new-found clarity, love and joy.
"My music is personal, but I believe the messages are Universal. Each song is heart-driven, by which I mean that I never pick up a guitar with the intention to write a certain way or a certain theme. The songs happen, no force of will. If it's not happening, then I know it's not meant to be written.
The songs on 'Lyrics In My Head' tend to have a positivity about them. Even those about heartbreak, pain and loss. I think it's due to the fact that my general outlook on life is positive, and somehow that comes out in the music I write. I know that all these emotions mean I'm alive, good or bad, and the songs are somehow, maybe on a subconscious level, allowing me to see solutions."
