Mariangela Demurtas, born in Ozieri (Sardinia) in 1981, is an Italian singer. Her musical career started in 2000 while attending the School of Foreign Linguistics and Literature in Sassari, Sardinia. With her musical background rooted in amongst others soul and blues, Mariangela joined an amateur blues band in 2000, together with a talented guitar player who today is considered one of the new promises in the international blues scene, the italian Francesco Piu. Honing her craft in the local scene for a couple of years, Mariangela decided to join the Sassari-based metalband Reel Fiction in 2002, with which she entered the studio in 2003 to record a four track demo entitled “Transfer”. The entire demo was produced by current guitarist of Helloween, Sasha Gerstner, in a studio near the city of Bamberg in Germany. In 2005 Mariangela and Reel Fiction decided to part ways. She left for Milan where she performed for a short period of time with another band from Northern Italy, called Alight. While in Milan, she also worked as a VJ for the italian Rock Tv on an amateur basis, interviewing bands like Europe and Blackfield. In spring 2007 Mariangela sent a demo to Tristania, one of the biggest Norwegian Gothic Metal bands, which at that time was looking for a singer. In August 2007 she was announced as the new official singer of Tristania. After only three months in Norway, Mariangela began working with local cultural associations to teaching about singing and interpretation, besides volunteering for organizations and sponsoring events and concerts at a local level. In november 2009 she presented her first musical workshop in the city of Stavanger, entitled “Music as a language”, which primarily focuses on the affinity between music and language, and the importance of music as a tool of collaboration and understanding between musicians. This project was entirely funded by local cultural associations in Stavanger, with the extraordinary participation and collaboration of Hanne Sørvaag (Universal Sweden), an established Norwegian singer-songwriter in the international music scene. She also teaches singing and she gives demonstration of different singing techniques that she has developed during her singing experience, for all different styles, from blues to metal and classic. Her workshops are mainly based in Norway, where she s living at the moment. Over the last couple of years Mariangela collaborated also with well-known musicians such as Danny Cavanagh (Anathema) and internationally acknowledged producers such as Waldemar Sorychta and Sasha Gerstner (Helloween). Demurtas has also a rock live activity in Sardinia where she performes together with local musicians or on her own. www.themurtas.com www.facebook.com/Themurtas