Dodo Hug

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Doris "Dodo" Hug (born February 12, 1950 in Bern ) is a Swiss singer , musician , actress , comedian and singer-songwriter. She became famous with the group «Mad Dodo».

Career

Dodo Hug has been active in the music scene since the 1970s. She started as a music teacher and with street and pub music. She became known through Mad Dodo , founded in the 1980s, together with Dominique Brod, Bruno Brandenberger and Christoph Ausfeld. Dodo Hug toured Europe with “Mad Dodo” and presented a comedic music program.

For several years now, Dodo Hug has been playing with Efisio Contini, a Sardinian musician and composer .

The artist is famous above all for her musical diversity and her talent for languages. Dodo Hug speaks Bern and Zurich German without an accent. In her songs she often switches between different languages, German , French , Italian , English , Spanish , Portuguese , back and forth or creates new words.

Dodo Hug plays guitar , mandolin , ukulele and various percussion instruments .

Awards

Acting activities

In the years 1982–1984 she was seen as an actress in the following TV productions:

  • "King David", "Joan of Arc", "The Black Spider"
  • «Blanc et Immobile» - Erik Satie evening,
  • "The transformation"

Further appearances as an actress:

  • 1986: "Dünki Schott", a film by Tobias Wyss and Franz Hohler
  • 2000: Swiss-German dubbing voices for the films "Stuart Little" and "Rudolph, the little reindeer"
  • 2003: film "Big Deal"
  • 2003: "The Apple Shot"

Musical productions

  • LP: Mad Dodo, with Christina Bauer and Bruno Brandenberger (1984–1986)
  • LP: Mad Dodo light, with Lucy Novotny and Bruno Brandenberger (1988)
  • CD: Mad Dodo - Juke Box (1983–1988), with Dodo Hug, Bruno Brandenberger, Christina Bauer, Lucy Novotny
  • CD: Mad Dodo - De la musique à la folie (1992), with Gina Günthard, Andrej Togni, Marc Hänsenberger
  • Participation in the stop-aids-sampler (1994)
  • CD: Dodo Hug - Ora siamo now (first solo CD) (1994), with Efisio Contini
  • CD: Dodo Hug - Câméléon (1996)
  • CD: Dodo Hug - Xang (1997) - live in the Kleintheater Luzern
  • Songs for the children's CDs Ohrewürm (1994)
  • CD: with Christian Fotsch , Schnabelsetzer 1, 1997
  • CD: Dodo Hug - Hugability (1998) - (Tournée Dodo Hug & Band with Piero Contu from Sardinia)
  • CD: Dodo Hug - Kaleidofon (2001) - first in-house production (Hugini Records)
  • Songs for the Röseli-Rock-Sampler (2001)
  • Tournée Kaleidoskop, Dodo Hug & Band with Ioana Butzu (Ro) and Mimmo Pisino (I / ch)
  • CD: s'Äntli Gundula (2003) - children's stories by Rosalina Zweifel with songs by Bodo Hut and Efisio Contini
  • CD: Mad Dodo - Kiné Kinà Kinò? (2003) - with Efisio Contini
  • CD: Mad Dodo - Ma Collection (2004) - Best of Dodo Hug 1985–2004, remixes and new recordings
  • CD: Mad Dodo - Via Mala (2006) - Black Songs, Detectiv Songs & Canti di Malavita
  • CD: Dodo Hug - Circle (2008)
  • CD: Dodo Hug & Efisio Contini - Sorriso Amaro (2010) - Canti di Lavoro e d'Autore
  • CD: Dodo Hug - Jokerwoman (2012) - Spielfrau
  • CD: Dodo Hug - Digi Tales Best Of 2003-2013

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personal data
SURNAME Hug, dodo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hug, Doris (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss singer, musician, actress, comedian and singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern