It is delicate but tough

"Amen," said Sina, as they will have a table prayer says. But she told only of her career, using words like gratitude, trust, appreciation and loyalty, while outside in the January weather is so black, as the Apocalypse would not be very far. As she says the last word, this Amen, you must, you yourself laugh at the Pathos. Because it is not so, is that something the end of their career. "My Flugi is still fully in the air," says Sina.

In a week, appears on her new Album. "Emma" means it, and She sounds in her new songs to a singer, the white stereotypes of the "rock lady" or even the "skirt tube" from the nearby long ago. "I am now arrived at the storytellers," she says, and cites as influences of songwriters like Rosanne Cash or Alison Krauss, are deeply rooted in the country traditions. And the you across plants in their life-world, in the Alps, folklore has no place.

Modern folk songs

remember New Songs such as "Wa nothing to me" instead of the old Swiss classics such as "i Truure", also because of the polyphonic songs, which she sings with her Band and guests. She says: "Yes, it's modern folk songs are to tell the small daily stories and also the big issues – love, misfortune, and Lament for lost Dreams."

"it's high time that the also to a woman."Sina gets first woman to the life's work prize of the Swiss Music Awards.

autobiographical you do not need to read these compressed little stories, because Sina has not charged for the call without sense in the Lenzburg stapfer house, where currently the exhibition "Fake – The whole truth" will be shown: "another word for Fake News is just fantasy. And this connection of self-experience with fiction is an important part of my work."

The listener to make the "Gitarru Ma", with the presence of Hader guy from her village, noticed her for a long time, but not ever plays the guitar. Or you will meet the woman who dreams of freedom, and the village of road in your Route 66 turns. But Yes, the Album is named after her grandmother, was a personal fancy than originally planned. Because it is so that they remain readable. "I can't do more."

"I schwöru": Sinas duet with Büne Huber. Video: SinaSinger (Youtube)

"Emma" but is just out of the air, of the inexorable flight of movement, but also from a Position of contemplation. 25 years of Sina, in the Swiss Pop is already in a career, which is now honoured with the lifetime achievement award of the Swiss Music Awards. Sina is the first woman to receive the award.

"it was high time that the also to a woman," says the 52-Year-old, and adds that the price would not have also earned a few other musicians a long time ago – so small, as always, the selection is claimed in this country, Yes. And it calls for a rethink in this men's domain, even if music are today more visible than before: "But as long as men of all switching make this so modern and hip music scene, it is difficult."

a Secret in the dark

If you don't only hold, but also looks back on their history and the traces of this career carries on, it begins, of course, everything in the Valais. Your home is unmistakable, although Sina, the name was Ursula bellwald, has left the valley for so long and long ago in Aargau lives.

it is reminiscent of churches that she visited as a Catholic girl very often and where you as a Vorsängerin of the priest appearances. You mentioned in your first Band Clear Darkness", we played Progressive Rock, found us strong and cool and have about the school sang, we found shit" – and the upper Valais strike price, you with their performance of "The House of the Rising Sun" had won.

thanks to this performance she received her first contract, her father had to sign, because she was of full age. "My father, show business was suspicious of, he Association with unsavory types in smoky places," recalled Sina. But he sensed their urgency. You made the trade school, then went as an 18-Year-old to Geneva and sang as Sina Campell in Dancings, in anniversaries of bands star. With such performances, she has abverdient their spores: "This is a part of me, and showed it to me: I'm tender, but tough."

current Single: "I süächu you."

This "teaching and Durchsiechjahre", this "Secret in the dark", as she calls it, proved her, too: With the blow of the world, she wanted to have nothing to do. Sina out rummaged your dialect texts, which she had written as a 13-Year-old. Sang at the Label. Received a recording contract. Benefited from the first wave of Dialect lyrics – by Züri West and Patent Ochsner and still Polo Hofer – and sold it in 1994 from their debut 50'000 CDs, in today's world of Streams, unlikely large number.

your biggest Hit: "son of the priest". Video: SRF music (Youtube)

How's things now with Sinas audience, 25 years later? "I'm going to count to those who have an audience that still has a CD in Hand and not a Selfie, but an autograph card." You mentioned that she was glad not to be a young artist, because it "gopferdeli has become much more difficult with the own Songs from the whole musical mass to stand out". And compares with a pre-installed Browser of a smartphone: even Though the people there had actually the selection, you will remain the default browser loyalty.

"I'm better in a Team"

Such statements – in a dry, slightly ironic self-überhöhend: adjust to playing in the Swiss Pop a role of Vereinigerin and people to bring together, in this compilation on a Album. In "Emma" there are musicians like the "America"singer Adrian Stern, who produced the Album, the Bernese Songwriter Trummer and Tinu Heiniger or the cabaret artist Olga Tucek: "I'm better in a Team", says Sina, it does not need to be everywhere your Name is on it.

Because it warns: "All the red carpets and the too-bright spotlights, illuminate me now, can you wrap up quickly and curl up."

Sina: "Emma" (Muve) appears on 1. February. The Swiss Music Awards will be on may 16. February, awarded in Lucerne.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 24.01.2019, 18:19 PM