"She likes to live in France where she rubs shoulders with "les petits cafés". Diana Hamilton sings all this with kindness, humor, mischievousness; but moreover, this Bahamian from Paris interprets standards and, novelties in her own rhythms, jazzy, calypso, reggae; to make us vibrate, backed by a very swinging musical group while making us aware of the history of her people... "
Florian Lacour
Diana Hamilton: Biography
COMPOSER LYRICIST INTERPRETER
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Radio & TV Shows
France Culture: Bahamian traditonal music , Paris. September 2000
RFO Radio : Bahamian Rhyming Spirituals, Paris - November 2000
Island Fm : “A Bahamian in Paris”
RFO Radio : “A Bahamian in Paris”, Paris April 2003
France Ô Quotidien : ” A Bahamian in Paris” , Paris -October 2005
Double Culture - Josephine Baker, a tribute, Paris – May 2006
Radio RFI : “Regards Croisés ” - a tribute to Josephine Baker
Radio Africa N° 1 : “ A Bahamian in Paris”, Paris – June 2006
Concerts
2000 - 2006
Jazz & World Festivals, various tributes, concert halls, TV & Radio, shows live or recorded for national broadcast to promote the new album
“A Bahamian in Paris”
- RFO TV : clip produced by Sylvie Koné for diffusion in the French overseas departments, Paris – June 2000
- Petit Journal Montparnasse : evening dedicated to music from the Bahamas – Negro Rhyming Spirituals acappella, Folklore Rake n’ Scrape and Calypso with RFO and Daniela Langer – Diana Hamilton Trio, Paris - June 2000
- Heritage Festival : guest appearance in the first Bahamian heritage festival, Nassau Bahamas - June 2001
- Tribute to Archie Shep: with Archie Shep plus other artists Montreuil – July 2004
- France Ô Television : guest star on the Randy Fly show, to present “A Bahamian in Paris” Paris – October 2004
- RFFAN : private gala organized by the Black French Business Women’s Network, Paris - October 2004
- France Inter Musique : “Le Pont des Artistes” produced & presented by Isabelle Dhordain - Recorded before a live audience for national broadcast, to present 3 titles from the album, Paris – 2005
- Bataclan : Invité d’ “ ANIS – Paris, May 2006
- Radio Libertaire : Concert produced & presented by Agnès Rougier for the anniversary of Radio Libertaire - broadcast live from Studio Campus, Paris - June 2006
- Sing Sing 96.7 Fm : World Music Festival, Brétagne – May 2006
- Radio France & Montpellier Jazz festival : gave 3 concerts Montpellier – July 2006
- FIP 100.3 Fm : One of the three concerts was broadcast nationwide & worldwide on September 14th 2006
- WOMAD festival – Reading, England - July 2006
1999
- France Musique: Diana Hamilton Trio – Bahamian Negro Rhyming Spirituals sung a capella. Live broadcast produced & presented by Daniela Langer, Musicora Musique Du Monde (Salon de la Musique) Paris – April 1999
- Musicora ’99 : Live performance (Salon de la Musique), Paris April 1999
- La Maroquenerie café litteraire : Bahamian Negro Rhyming
Spirituals acappella : the Diana Hamilton Trio, produced & presented by Daniela Langer (musicologist), Denis Constant-Martin (author of the book “Le Gospel Afro-Américain” Ed. Cité de la Musique – Actes Sud , Paris - September 1999
- France Culture: Public recording of the Christmas Gospel concert - Diana Hamilton Trio & Storyteller, presented by Yvan Amar, Maison de Radio France, Paris - December 1999
1990 - 1997:
Diana first performances were with Karom (Jean Philippe Thomasson land artist Sculptor-Ritualist who became famous in 1981 for his 6 acre land sculpture "Femme de Blé " (Woman in Wheat) in a field in Dordogne.. Songs sung acappella inspired by Australian Aboriginals..
FR3 AQUITANE : TV documentary on the Sculptor–Ritualist, Karom (Jean Philippe Thomasson – Primitive song & dance, Dordorgne - June 1997
USA Ella Fitzgerald Trophy : I won first prize in this international gospel festival