Lia Hide

Biography

Lia Hide is the Athenian prolific lady of dark, avant-garde, art pop. Fusing jazz elements with balkan and cinematic music, progressive and baroque pop with indie and aetherial soundscapes, she creates stories of broken souls and fairytales of every-day heroes, trauma healing with force and honesty. Glitch and jazz fragments, screaming trumpets, cinematic guitars and orchestral layers, electronic sub drones and industrial noises, baroque pianos and edgy brasses that all dress up the clarity of the piano trio, fusing pop with indie, avant garde with dark wave, layered with crystal articulated touching vocals.

Her first album, “Home”, was released by ΕΜΙ-Universal (2013). “Everyone Seems to Know Who I Am”, 2017 (mastered by the multiply Grammy awarded Adam Ayan) and “Tells no Fairytales”, 2019 (mastered by Denis Blackham) were released by their own indie label, DontHideMe. She’s also released “Fairytales Remixed” (Amour Records) in 2020, and ‘Genoktonia’ – the music for Pavlos Kourtidis’ same-titled dance drama, presented at Aisxyleia 2021.

“The Missing Fourth Guest” (2022) is Lia Hide’s 4th album themed and influenced by Plato’s ‘Timeaus’ dialogue. The songs discuss human mortality, the search for Atlantis and the place of the modern man in the cosmos. The album was produced by Lia Hide, mixed by Ian Shaw at Warmfuzz Productions, Florida, and mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering, UK. The album has 8 tracks, all of which were dressed in video clips, including a three-fold major work, in Sonata form, the Timeaus Sonata. The videos of the album have won numerous awards in international film and video festivals and competitions.

Lia Hide has collaborated and performed with acclaimed Greek and international artists (Tricky, Joseph van Wissem, Anneke van Giersbergen, Kadebostany, Ida Nielsen, Molly Nilsson, Kovacs, and more) in diverse festivals in Greece and Europe. She has toured extensively in 20 countries across Europe, and has performed in Montreal and the US. In 2023 she was chosen to represent Greece in the HEMI Music Awards, reaching the finalists rank. The ‘Missing Fourth Guest Tour’ was presented at Athens Jazz International Jazz Festival, and since May 2023 she has performed in Forest Jam Festival (France), Station Street Festival
(Bulgaria), MMB (Romania), SoAlive (Bulgaria), PIN Music Conference (N.Macedonia), Athens Music Week (Greece) and is booked to perform at the 5th Anniversary of Dark Malta Festival (Malta) and Future Echoes (Sweden) in 2024.

She has studied classical piano, operatic singing, music technology, advanced harmony and songwriting (MMus, BA, BBA, LGSMD and more) and also composes music for theatre and dance productions.

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