DIAMANTE -in capital letters- is the stage name of the American singer Diamante Azzura Bovelli, who since 2017 has been making a name for herself by practicing a nostalgic style that has nothing to do with synthesizers, but with headbanging and 80s glam metal. In promotional photos, she is positioned as the next great hard rock diva and, if this sound becomes a commercial powerhouse again, DIAMANTE could be one of its big stars.
Hailing from Irvine, California, although she speaks fluent Spanish and Italian due to family influence, DIAMANTE has managed to amass millions of streams with her singles ‘Ghost Myself’ or ‘Haunted’ or with her cover of Goo Goo Dolls’ ‘Iris’, which anticipated the use of this song in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ by two years. She is best known for lending her voice to ‘Hear Me Now’ by the famous rock band Bad Wolves, which was a hit on American rock radio.
DIAMANTE has two albums under her belt, ‘Coming in Hot’, from 2018, and ‘American Dream’, from 2021, and the third will be released in 2024. The first single has not held back one bit in its nostalgic intention: it is titled ‘1987’ and in the lyrics DIAMANTE dreams of returning to that year to escape the real world. “Tonight I’ll dance like it’s 1987,” she sings in the lyrics. It is the year in which classic hard rock albums such as ‘Hysteria’ by Def Leppard or ‘Appetite for Destruction’ by Guns N’ Roses were released. Curiously, DIAMANTE says that the first album that obsessed her in her life is Avril Lavigne’s debut, ‘Let Go’, released in 2002; it was later that she discovered Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Blondie.
The second single from DIAMANTE’s third album is ‘All for the Glory’ and was released today, August 20th. It’s an anthem of self-improvement that sounds as heroic as its title promises. The metal guitar riffs are capable of stirring up storms and ‘All for the Glory’, in fact, is already among the most powerful recordings in DIAMANTE’s repertoire. Above all, DIAMANTE elevates the song by displaying a deep voice that couldn’t be more suited to this genre. Joan Jett may have been a direct influence on ‘All for the Glory’, as DIAMANTE counts her among the artists with whom he would like to collaborate.
Although the “Nothing’s gonna stop me now” in the chorus of ‘All for the Glory’ seems more like a tribute to the great Samantha Fox classic… which makes sense when you watch the video for ‘All for the Glory’ which, halfway between a tribute to fitness fever and a tribute to Mexican wrestling, is more eighties than the eighties.
