Biography
Singer and songwriter Madi Diaz channels her fervent, exploratory material through a blend of indie rock, country, folk, synth pop, and additional styles, always placing raw feeling at the forefront. The Pennsylvania native cut her first full-length record alongside Berklee classmates for the 2007 release Skin and Bone, then moved to Los Angeles, where Plastic Moon reached the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart in 2012. Her fifth album, History of a Feeling, arrived in 2021 as her debut on Anti-/Epitaph and drew from a breakup; she continued that vein of candor on Weird Faith, issued in February 2024 and featuring the duet “Don’t Do Me Good” with Kacey Musgraves.
Diaz spent her early years in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, receiving home schooling from her Peruvian mother while taking piano lessons from her Danish father, a musician who exposed her during the ’90s to the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac. She picked up guitar in her early teens and began writing songs at sixteen after the family moved to nearby Philadelphia. There she gained notice as one of the standout young performers in Don Argott’s 2005 documentary on the Paul Green School of Rock Music. At Berklee she played in the indie-rock group Talk Radio before launching her solo career in 2006. Producer Frank Charlton and recording engineer Martin Cooke helped assemble several of the school’s strongest musicians—later her touring band—to cut the 2007 debut Skin and Bone. The EPs Ten Gun Salute and Far from the Things That We Know followed in 2009 and 2011.
Plastic Moon, her second album, entered the Top 20 of the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart in early 2012, and We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire peaked at number 48 on the same tally that October. After signing with Nettwerk she issued the synth-tinged Phantom in September 2014. In the intervening years her songs appeared on television series including Nashville, Pretty Little Liars, and Army Wives, while she contributed backing vocals to projects by Miranda Lambert, James Blunt, and Charlie Worsham.
Following the reflective 2018 EP It’s Okay to Be Alone, Diaz moved to Anti-/Epitaph for the more unfiltered History of a Feeling, co-produced with Andrew Sarlo and released in August 2021. The next year brought Same History, New Feelings, an EP of stripped-down reworkings. In 2023 she joined Harry Styles’ band on guitar and backing vocals for the European portion of Love On Tour. Later that year she released the single “Don’t Do Me Good” featuring Kacey Musgraves, drawn from the emotionally direct Weird Faith, which arrived in February 2024. The album was co-produced by singer-songwriter Sam Cohen and Konrad Snyder. A deluxe edition followed later in the year, adding several tracks including the collaborative single “One Less Question” with Canadian singer Lennon Stella.
Diaz spent her early years in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, receiving home schooling from her Peruvian mother while taking piano lessons from her Danish father, a musician who exposed her during the ’90s to the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac. She picked up guitar in her early teens and began writing songs at sixteen after the family moved to nearby Philadelphia. There she gained notice as one of the standout young performers in Don Argott’s 2005 documentary on the Paul Green School of Rock Music. At Berklee she played in the indie-rock group Talk Radio before launching her solo career in 2006. Producer Frank Charlton and recording engineer Martin Cooke helped assemble several of the school’s strongest musicians—later her touring band—to cut the 2007 debut Skin and Bone. The EPs Ten Gun Salute and Far from the Things That We Know followed in 2009 and 2011.
Plastic Moon, her second album, entered the Top 20 of the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart in early 2012, and We Threw Our Hearts in the Fire peaked at number 48 on the same tally that October. After signing with Nettwerk she issued the synth-tinged Phantom in September 2014. In the intervening years her songs appeared on television series including Nashville, Pretty Little Liars, and Army Wives, while she contributed backing vocals to projects by Miranda Lambert, James Blunt, and Charlie Worsham.
Following the reflective 2018 EP It’s Okay to Be Alone, Diaz moved to Anti-/Epitaph for the more unfiltered History of a Feeling, co-produced with Andrew Sarlo and released in August 2021. The next year brought Same History, New Feelings, an EP of stripped-down reworkings. In 2023 she joined Harry Styles’ band on guitar and backing vocals for the European portion of Love On Tour. Later that year she released the single “Don’t Do Me Good” featuring Kacey Musgraves, drawn from the emotionally direct Weird Faith, which arrived in February 2024. The album was co-produced by singer-songwriter Sam Cohen and Konrad Snyder. A deluxe edition followed later in the year, adding several tracks including the collaborative single “One Less Question” with Canadian singer Lennon Stella.
Albums
Enema Of The Garden State
2026
Fatal Optimist
2025
Weird Faith
2024
Same History, New Feelings
2022
History Of A Feeling
2021
While My Guitar Gently Weeps / Let It Down
2019
It's Okay To Be Alone
2018
Phantom
2014
Singles
