Diana Nylon

Diana Nylon artistic name of Diana Miriam López (Mar del Plata, July 25, 1956 - Buenos Aires, July 18, 1993) was a singer-songwriter and Argentine theater actress. Nylon integrated the first pop and kitsch groups of the Argentine underground circuit of the 1980s. Diana began her career in Argentina in the late 1970s, but left for Brazil and then to Amsterdam, (Holland); where he lived there for two years, to escape the dictatorship that was sweeping the country at that time. Upon his return, he got into the underground circuit of Buenos Aires, at the beginning of the 80's. Diana recited alone and performed performances dramatizing the punk content: she used to design his own aesthetic outfits for each show, including flyers in which them suggested attitudes and behaviors that became characteristic of the underground culture of that time. On June 20, 1981, the female theatrical rock band called the Bay Biscuits was formed, along with Fabiana Cantilo, Isabel de Sebastián, Viviana Tellas and Edith Kucher. Diana singed there as guest in 1982 on an art space called "Ring Club" and did many numbers, the most important was when she officiated as presenter of artists and consecrateds bands like Alfonso Sentrega, Horacio Fontova, and Patricio Rey & sus Redonditos de Ricota; Bay Biscuits made the chorus of "Superlógico", a song that later became part of the first LP of the band, but that no longer had the chorus of the record finally edited. At the same time she formed her project "Nylon" in 1982 , they began to work on an album with a musical style close to the new wave, with critical-social and ironic lyrics, remarkable fact for the political times that were lived in that context. The Nylon formation was by Diana (voice), Jorge "Bubble" Alem (guitar), Rick Morduchowicz and Carlitos Badgad (bass) and Pablo Guadalupe (drums). Mariano Casanova and Pablo Guadalupe would also enter as (drummer). In the recording of the album "El ciudadano" (1983), Fabiana Cantilo, Andrés Calamaro and Daniel Melingo participated as guests. The album was censored so the producer of Music Hall dediced to tag a label on the photo who said "Before October 30" with the colors red and white, in allusion of the era before the democracy and the victory of Alfonsin in the presidential elections next year In 1984, he shared dates with renowned bands such as Los Violadores and Virus. The band breaks up the following year but in their last years they performed at the Cemento pub with Luca Prodan from Sumo, Sissi Hansen and Trixy, among others. After that she finished recording her second album titled "Día y Hora" (still unreleased) and died in an accident on July 18, 1993, in a room of her apartment, asphyxiated by carbon monoxide from a stove. in malfunction. The artist herself died of hypoxia seven days before her 37th birthday.