Alela Diane Biography
Alela Diane was born in Alela Diane Menig, is an American singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California. The songs for Diane’s album The Pirate’s Gospel were written on a trip to Europe. They were recorded in her father’s studio and were initially self-released in 2004, in paper and lace sleeves with hand lettering.
Alela Diane Age
Alela Diane Menig was born in Nevada City, California, U.S. on April 20, 1983. He is 36 years as of 2019.
Alela Diane Family
Diane was born in Nevada City, California on April 20, 1983. She grew up singing with her musician parents and performing in the school choir. She taught herself guitar and began writing songs that blend tense, trance-like arpeggios with warm vocals and meditative lyrics about family and nature.
Her first recordings were self-released in 2003 as Forest Parade. Her first solo public appearances were at the invitation of fellow Nevada City native Joanna Newsom. She also did a stint in the Nevada City band Black Bear before continuing with her solo pursuits.
Alela Diane Husband
Diane was married before. She remarried in 2013 and gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Vera Marie, in early November 2013. In February 2017, she gave birth to a second daughter named Oona.
Alela Diane Career
The songs for Diane’s album The Pirate’s Gospel were written on a trip to Europe. They were recorded in her father’s studio and were initially self-released in 2004, in paper and lace sleeves with hand lettering. In October 2006, the album was issued in revised form by Holocene Music and received widespread critical acclaim.
A new song, “Dry Grass and Shadows”, was issued on a compilation of Nevada City artists, and five more new songs were issued on a limited-edition 10″ vinyl pressing, Songs Whistled Through White Teeth, released in the United Kingdom in October 2006. In April 2007, the Pirate’s Gospel was released in the UK on Names Records, garnering favorable reviews in The Times and NME.
She toured the U.S. both solo and with Tom Brosseau, and opened for Iron & Wine, Akron/Family, the Decemberists, and Vashti Bunyan. She also toured extensively in Europe (UK, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) in the spring of 2008.
Diane sang on an album of cover songs, The Silence of Love, released in November 2008, recorded by Eddie Bezalel and Hugo Nicholson with musicians Josh Klinghoffer, Joey Waronker, Gus Seyffert, Leo Abrahams and Woody Jackson under the name Headless Heroes.
Her second album, To Be Still, was released in February 2009 on Rough Trade Records. In early 2009, she toured the US opening for Blitzen Trapper and spent the better part of that year touring Europe.
Her third album, Alela Diane & Wild Divine, was released in April 2011 and was recorded with a backing band, Wild Divine, which included her father, Tom Menig, and her then-husband, Tom Bevitori. She and Wild Divine toured the US and Europe to promote the album, and in July 2011, they opened for the Fleet Foxes on a string of dates. In the fall of the same year, she also accompanied Fleet Foxes as their opening act in Europe.
In 2012, her song “Take Us Back” was featured on the end credits of the “No Time Left”, the fifth and final episode of the adventure game The Walking Dead by Telltale Games. In 2019, the song was once again used near the end of The Walking Dead: The Final Season episode “Take us Back”.
Her fourth album, About Farewell, was released on her own label, Rusted Blue Records, in digital format in June 2013, with the physical edition issued in July. In 2014, the track “The Light” appeared on The Walking Dead fourth season soundtrack, Songs of Survival Vol. 2. On October 16, 2015, she and guitarist Ryan Francesconi released the album Cold Moon, featuring the “thoughtful guitar picking of Francesconi [and] Diane’s naturalist, poetic lyrics”.
Alela Diane Net Worth
Diane is an American singer-songwriter who has a net worth of $500 thousand.
Alela Diane Discography
- 2003: Forest Parade
- 2004: The Pirate’s Gospel
- 2009: To Be Still
- 2011: Alela Diane & Wild Divine
- 2013: About Farewell
- 2015: Cold Moon
- 2018: Cusp
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