Clara Chill

~ "Mit eindringlicher Stimme hat sie am Flügel ihr Lied vorgetragen, selbstbewusst und selbstverständlich." (Alice Lanzke, ard-online) ~SHORT- STORY --- Clara was born in Berlin, Germany. At the age of 6 she started taking piano lessons and later vocal lessons. At the same time, Clara wrote her first compositions for piano and voice. Likewise others write diaries, she works up her deepest thoughts and feelings in her compositions. Writing songs is always accompanied by finding new perspectives and trying to get the bottom of a feeling’s different meaning. "It’s like a game of associations. When I start writing lyrics I never know where it ends. I start with an idea or feeling and put one piece after another together, like a puzzle. After that I realize what I just created. It's like magic sometimes! “ In 2006, the jury of the Treffen junge Musik-Szene selected her song "Gloomy Soul" from 231 music productions and eventually she became a winner of the singer/songwriter-contest in Germany. Furthermore, she started transforming her songs from piano/voice arrangements to arrangements for larger ensembles. She went to jam sessions with her new compositions and from time to time, she played more and more of her songs with smaller ensembles on stage. In February, she gave her first own concert accompanied by the wonderful musicians Ulrich Stielau (Guitar), Philipp Abromeit (Piano) and Sungur Bentürk (Cajon) in the Bebop-Bar, a Jazz Club in Berlin. Being always torn between the Art and a “civilized” way of life, Clara finally decided to sacrifice a doctoral degree, gave that wish back to her mom, and followed her own dreams. “I always faced the decision to give up on my music. I would probably end up in my own doctor’s office, wow, with a lot of money, a perfect husband and three kids. That seemed to be too easy for me and I know I wouldn’t be happy now. Plus I always felt different. I was never able to align myself. But now I adhere to my own person and present myself as an artist. Going back on stage, and getting that amazing feeling - that's what I am always going to do!” Her actual dream is to start studying after finishing school and eventually get the Bachelor of Music.“That is what I am fighting for right now. Look, there are so many things you can learn. I am at the very beginning. Life is a good way to soak it all up. You fall down and get up again. It is worthwhile and my dream since I can think. I see myself getting better and better, stronger and stronger, growing up and one day sitting somewhere in a studio producing great songs and film compositions. Then I can say I don’t regret anything. I set my mind on it and now it's already too late to reason me out of my dreams. I will go for it. Yip, that's what I am going to do!"