Sophie hunger-beautiful indie pop with lots of poetry

Spring comes and with it the desire for music, new music that you do not yet know and that is best a bit out of the frame. The whole field of classical music is not in demand right now, in winter there were many opportunities to listen to music when visiting concerts or in music theaters or on festive occasions.

When the sun comes out again, new and fresh music is in demand, and if you don't want to be content with formatted music, you are now ready for new musical experiences somewhere between folk and pop, rock and blues.

Such a fresh experience could be conveyed to these people by the music of Sophie Hunger , beautiful indie pop with a lot of poetry in composition and voice , constantly changing, and always so fascinating that the “Spiegel” already speaks of the “great one from little Switzerland” .

Sophie Hunger was born there, on March 31, 1983 in Bern, she is called Emilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti with a bourgeois name. Swiss art connoisseurs are already listening to this family name, and Emilie/Sophie is really the great -grand native from the well -known Swiss painter Albert Welti and grandnight of the multi -award -winning painter and writer Albert Jakob Welti.

Radio and main spokesman for Radio Zurich, actor and author Ernst Arthur Welti was her grandfather, and with her parents or father and diplomat Philippe Welti, Emilie met a good distance of the world.

Emilie and her two older siblings not only grew up in Zurich at home, but also in Bern, London and Bonn, and her musical character was just as diverse : his favorite jazz and punk was brought closer to her, the mother was interested in the folk songs of the inhabited countries, and piano lessons also received her as a child.

The prospective artist herself did not state at first that young people devoured hip-hop and rhythm and blues, later she discovered rock music and later folk, country and bluegrass.

In between, she did her Matura (Abitur) at the Zurich Literargymnasium Rämibühl, studied English and German studies from 2003 and from 2002 to 2006 supported the experimental band Superterz of the Zurich electronic tinker Marcel and Ravi Vaid in creating their really spherical sounds.

She can be heard on the 2006 Superterz Album standards, and also on the album “Fisher” of the indie rock band Fisher published in the same year, which she belonged to as singer from 2004.

Emilie Welti had sung for these bands , with the decision to set up her first CD, Emilie now felt ripe for an artist name. Sophie Hunger was born, from her own second name and the mother's name, and this Sophie presented the CD “Sketches on Sea” , which she had recorded at home herself.

The CD met with more than benevolent attention and helped hunger to be interesting: In May 2007 it played as a opening act of Stephan Eicher in the Bataclan Parisian and was invited to the Swiss Montreux Jazz Festival in July 2007, she performed there with John Parish and Raphelson.

August and September of the same year she was already on international concert tours, with the band “The Young Gods” and the Jazz Quartet Erik Truffaz.

Sometimes extraordinary talent is actually noticed in time: Sophie Hunger appeared in front of an audience for the first time at 19, a few years later she was already quite well known in musical Europe, and at 25 she made her breakthrough: at the beginning of the year in 2008 she started “Monday's Ghost”, her first studio album, and in June 2008 Universal Music offered her a contract.

This July she played with her own band (consisting of the bass Balz Bachmann, multi-instrumentalist Christian Prader, trombonist Michael Flury and drummer Alberto Malo) at the Montreux Jazz Festival, in front of a sold-out hall, and “Monday's Ghost” climbed the top position of the Swiss hit parade without detours. The album was also released in Germany, Austria and France in February 2009, and it deserved platinum.

Her second studio album “1983” then produced hunger with the help of the sound engineer Stéphane Alf Briat in Paris himself, almost unnecessarily mention that “1983” also stormed the Swiss charts immediately after appearing.

In 2010, the “1983” tournée followed, in which she was the first Swiss band to appear at the Glastonbury Festival and Miles Davis Hall Cigale in Paris as part of the Montreux Jazz Festival in front of sold-out houses.

In addition, Hunger composed the film music for Micha Lewinsky's film “The Freund” in 2008 and played a supporting role in the film, for the “Zeit” Columns and in 2010 a much commented report on the Salzburg Festival and won the Swissaward in the Show category in 2010.

In 2010 she also contributed the music to the documentary “Room 202-Peter Bichsel in Paris”, and autumn/winter 2011 she reported in “ZEIT ONLINE” about her America tour with the Malian Tuareg band Tinariwen.

For relaxation, hunger also paints a cubist -looking painting, and for her third album “The Danger of Light” (2012) she worked with well -known American musicians, e.g. B. Josh Klinghoffer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, this collaboration gave her music a new and accented vitality.

All of this indicates that we can continue to expect musical surprises from Sophie Hunger in the future, and if they enchant how the results of their previous development, it is worth listening to it again and again.

If you are planning a city trip over the Easter holidays, to Innsbruck or Salzburg or Bratislava, or, depending on the appointment of the Easter holidays in your state, also to Prague, Linz, Solothurn, Aarau, Brugg, Schaffhausen, Biel/Bienne or Zug, you can hear Sophie Hunger Live, she visits these places on her current tour.

Even if they belong to the skiers and spend their Easter holidays in the Bernese Alps, plays and Sing Sophie Hunger near them, on March 8th, 2013 at the Caprices Festival, which until March 16. takes place in Crans-Montana.