Magda Vogel

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Magda Vogel (born August 11, 1955 ) is a Swiss singer who has emerged in rock music and improvisation music.

Live and act

Magda Vogel, who actually wanted to become an actress, discovered her voice in the early 1980s. It was with the formation UnknownmiX known in which they together with Ernst Thoma (synthesizer), Knut Remond (drums), and the typographer Hans-Rudolf Lutz developed a fusion of rock and improvisational music with which, for example, at the Jazz Festival Willisau success celebrated. UnknownmiX toured Europe and released several LPs, CDs and a 45-minute live video for eyes and ears . Afterwards she devoted herself to other projects, in particular the avant-garde vocal trio Eisgesänge with Dorothea Schürch and Brigitte Schär , the pop rock band DominaDea or the funk jazz band Jick the Rapper , with whom she toured Russia in 1995. Later she concentrated on the direction of the Zurich women's choir Die Vogelfrei , performed the song program Songs'n'Roses with the pianist Cristina de Simoni and participated in numerous improvisation concerts.

Vogel has also been active in the field of new music since the late 1990s. With the pianist Laura Gallati, she performed Schoenberg's song cycle Das Buch der Hängling Gardens . Since 2000 she has performed in a duo with pianist John Wolf Brennan as sculpted sound , setting concrete poetry by Eugen Gomringer , Hans Arp , Ernst Jandl , Eveline Hasler and André Thomkins to music (CD from Altrisuoni ). Furthermore, she performs together with the Berlin electro-acoustician Inge Morgenroth, teaches music, gives workshops and continues to lead the choir Die Vogelfrei .

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SURNAME Vogel, Magda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1955