In teenage years I went to a young people's group and in it I come to be on stage with a band for the first time. I sang with several rock bands and at the age of 17 joined the popband Sunny Manzanas, wich toured to the Zeltmusikfestival Feiburg and also supported bigger pop-acts such as Jamiroquai and Hot Chocolat. During those festivals I came in touch with Jazz more and more frequently.
At the age of 20 I was a background singer for The King, an Irish Elvis Presley interpreter and with this band I toured through Switzerland, Hungary, Austria and Germany. Back in Freiburg, I joined an a-capella-quartett called fourmidable! and also was a guest singer in a variety of projects/bands (among others the Freiburg Jazz Choir, (Bobby McFerrin, Swingle Singers) etc.).
In addition, I performed on a regular basis with the plasma beatz project during the legendary Funky Dance Nights in the Freiburg Jazzhouse (in cooperation with
the London label wahwah45). The band also performed outside the Jazzhouse, as for example supporting the band CHIC (Nile Rodgers, „Le Freak“) during SAPPHIRE 2006 in Paris.
I was also booked for commercial jingles (e.g. ültje) and my voice can be heard on a variety of CDs, as for example the children's CD „Entdeckungskiste“ (published by Herder), the SchulzeMeierLehmann's CD "Schönheit ist grausam" (Jazzhouse records) or on the electro sampler mars music tanzbar (published by fourmusic). As I love listening to electronic music I also was working with DJs (Raimund Flöck, Steve Nash).
I studied with Norbert Gottschalk (Jazz und Rock Schule Freiburg) and, since summer of 2005, am taking classes from Ann Malcom in the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim. Here, I worked with the Professor for contrabass Thomas Stabenow (Joe Pass, Wolfgang Haffner, Lee Konitz) and am singing in several projects with other students.
I am experienced in classic singing lessons (Gabriele Kniesel, Freiburg) and in logopedics/body work and I was educating myself by doing workshops (Martina Freytag, Jay Clayton, Erik Sohn (Coaching, u.a. Wise Guys), Velvet Voices (Wien)). At present, I'm teaching vocal-lessons and bandcoaching at the Modern Music School Heidelberg and at the Music and Singing School in Heidelberg and am teaching jazz/popularmusic for classical singers at the Musikhochschule Mannheim
If you want to hear and see me sing, check out my concert-dates above!
