Lynette Diaz

Diaz is an American-born, New Zealand-based Singer-Songwriter with a

distinct passionate voice and writing style that's driven comparisions

to folk artists like Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tracy Chapman. Lynette

sings with a fiery voice that she attributes to her Mexican-American

roots. “Music comes through me, it’s a passion, it’s heart-filled, it’s

fun, it’s intense and it’s all rooted in my upbringing around a

hodgepodge of various styles of music from 60’s and 70’s folk/country,

contemporary music, independent singer-songwriter, 80’s techno and

traditional Mexican folklore music.

Lynette released her debut

Cd, “Lyrics In My Head’ in late 2008. The song ‘Living Before Dying’

has received honorable mention in the Unisong International Songwriting

Contest and Peacedriven Song Competition. Various songs from the Cd

have received airplay in NZ, Australia and United States. Lynette

currently performs throughout New Zealand as a solo acoustic artists

and/or as a duo with finger-style guitarist, Susan L. Grant or

Singer-Songwriter, Pete Love.

Besides

her own music, she is active in promoting other New Zealand female

acoustic artists through the New Zealand Women's Acoustic Collective,

which she founded in 2008 . The NZWAC celebrates a sense of community

and collaboration amongst member female artists.

Lynette is

also the radio host of "FemAcoustica Music and Review" , a monthly

radio show on Plains FM 96.9 (Christchurch), featuring female acoustic