Diyet van Lieshout is a songwriter and singer from the high Kluane mountains of the Yukon Territory, Canada. She is a songwriter with over 20 years of experience and has been singing professionally for 25 years. Diyet’s songs have been published in Asia, Europe and North America, but mainly, she writes music that she performs as Diyet and Diyet & the Love Soldiers.

Diyet’s lyrics and melodies are rooted in her lived experience, especially to the land and community where she was born and raised, the traditional territory of the Kluane First Nation. Her style is both introspective and vast, juxtapositions that are reflected in immense landscapes and secluded communities. Diyet’s songwriting explores modern Indigenous perspectives on ancestral philosophies, traditions, trauma, and healing.

Diyet and her band, The Love Soldiers are Canadian roots, alt-country and folk with a unique Tutchone traditional vibe. Diyet sings in both English and Southern Tutchone (her native language). The Love Soldiers are multi-instrumentalist, Robert van Lieshout and Juno Award winning producer and multi-instrumentalist, Bob Hamilton.

Continuing to live with feet firmly planted in two worlds, Diyet’s adventurous and sometimes chaotic life is on full display in her music. She often says, “Yesterday, fishing for our dinner on the ice, the next day, on the stage singing for you!”