Lia Hide (GR) is an Athenian avant-garde, dark pop artist. She is a singer/songwriter, producer, music educator and performer.
She enjoyed a prolific past in the Greek Electronica scene after which she decided to walk her own path, releasing 4 studio albums
(debut album out by EMI-Universal (2013), and her latest one by US Indie Conch Town Records), dozens of collaborative works, remix and instrumental albums, while she composes music for theater and dance dramas.
Her latest album, “The Missing Fourth Guest” is an album influenced by and themed on Plato’s ‘Timeaus’ dialogue : an album that merges jazz with alternative, glitch with cinematic and progressive with dark wave, that was originally presented at the 2022 Athens International Jazz Festival alongside Lucy Woodward, Ida Nielsen and more. The album is accompanied by 8 video clips, which have won multiple awards in international competitions and film festivals.
She has collaborated and appeared with Tricky, KBHTA, Kovacs, Joseph van Wissem, Anneke van Giersbergen, Keep Shelly in Athens, Molly Nilsson, Kadebostany, Robin Skouteris and many more, and performed in many festivals and showcases in Europe, having extensively toured in Italy, France, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and more. She has also performed in Berkeley, California, and Montreal, Canada. In the studio she’s working with Ian Shaw, Denis Blackham and the multi-Grammy awarded Adam Ayan.
Lia Hide is a virtuoso pianist and a most versatile singer (with a strong classical piano & vocals training and years of teaching experience) and holds an MMus in Songwriting). She is researching the phonetic evolution of vowels in 20th century popular music vocals for the PhD thesis – she is an experimental composer but a songwriter that loves pop simplicity. Lia Hide is a member of the IASPM and is endorsed by SE Electronics microphones.
Lia is always performing and creating with Aki’Base (bass) and George Rados (drums).
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