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Diyet & The Love Soldiers
Diyet & The Love Soldiers is alternative country, folk, roots and traditional with catchy melodies and stories deeply rooted in Diyet’s Indigenous world view and northern life.
Diyet sings in both English and her traditional language, Southern Tutchone, and plays bass. Backed by Love Soldiers, husband and collaborator, Robert van Lieshout (acoustic guitar, drums & percussion) and Juno Award winning producer, Bob Hamilton (electric guitar, pedal steel & mandolin), this multi-instrumental trio has a sound that can fill a big stage or capture an intimate room.
During the last decade Diyet has performed at major folk, jazz, world and multi-disciplinary festivals and theatres in Canada, toured in the UK, Europe, US and Circumpolar North. Diyet and the Love Soldiers recently performed at Osaka Expo 2025 in Japan.
Diyet & The Love Soldiers new music expands across the width of Canadiana music with a focus on lyrical stories taking the listener on a journey through land and time. Each song is rooted in her life in Kluane and her experience as an indigenous woman walking in two worlds. Inspired by vast landscapes, clashing and embracing realities, Diyet’s heartfelt lyrics paint a picture of wildness, truth, hope, reconciliation, history and the community that surrounds her.
“Diyet’s poetic lyrics are heartfelt and true, full of hope and inspiration for positive change in her community.”– DISCourse
