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Madi Diaz
12+ albums
indieAlt-countryamericanaNashvillekickasstic
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Madi Diaz (born May 14, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Raised and home-schooled in Pennsylvania's Lancaster county, she is the daughter of musician Eric Svalgard (keyboards in the noted Frank Zappa cover band Project/Object) and schoolteacher Nancy Diaz. Encouraged by her parents, Diaz began commuting to Philadelphia in 2002 to attend The Paul Green School of Rock Music, where her father volunteered (today her father runs the Wilmington, DE, branch of the school, where Diaz's brother Max is also an instructor). Her somewhat contentious relationship with Green himself would be captured for audiences to see in the 2005 documentary film Rock School. Even at that young age, Madi had forceful ideas about her music, an instinct that has served her well in avoiding lazy categorization. Green's School of Rock led to a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where Madi would spend the next three years. Beyond musical education, it was at Berklee that she met producer Frank Charlton and engineer Martin Cooke, with whom she would record her first solo album, Skin and Bone, in early 2007. Joining her for the sessions was another Berklee student, Kyle Ryan, her songwriting and performing collaborator ever since. Skin and Bone is a sparkling debut, capturing a rootsy side of Diaz as singer-songwriter and drawing comparisons to the work of artists like Patty Griffin. But just as soon as Skin and Bone arrived, Diaz was already moving forward. She an
