DELAIN singer Diana Leah has released the official music video for “Holy Water”, the first single from her new solo project DYYA. Check it out below.<\/p>\n
“Holy Water” was written and performed by DYYA. It was produced, mixed and mastered by Andrea Fusini.<\/p>\n
DELAIN shared the “Holy Water” video on Instagram and wrote in an accompanying message: “Hey! Check this out! Our Diana just dropped a single for her new solo project and it sounds amazing”.<\/p>\n
Diana joined DELAIN in 2022 as the replacement for the band’s longtime vocalist Charlotte Wessels.<\/p>\n
Regarding how she came to be the new singer of the long-running Dutch metal act, the now-35-year-old Leah said back in 2022: “It’s really simple, actually. I knew they were looking for a singer so I just left a comment on their Instagram page. So a couple of days later I received an e-mail from Martijn [Westerholt, DELAIN keyboardist, founder and main songwriter], and we talked a bit about how I could audition and he sent me some material that I could sing on. And the rest is history.”<\/p>\n
Asked how she decided to sing in a metal band, Diana said: “Well, I’ve always wanted to sing in a metal band. It was really my desire to do it. In fact, I did sing in a couple of rock bands, but it wasn’t really heavy music, which I loved at the time. It was really hard to find the right people to form a band with and also to get along together and all that. But I’ve always wanted to be in a metal band. Always.”<\/p>\n
Leah also talked a bit about her background, saying: “I was born in Romania, in a city called Alba Iulia. It’s in the middle of Transylvania. And then I moved to Italy when I was 15, and I lived in Italy for, I think, 10 years or something. And then I moved to Canada, in Ottawa, and I lived there for five years. And then I came back to Italy. And now I currently live in Italy, near Torino, so up north.”<\/p>\n