Nadja Zela
Nadja Zela (born May 10, 1971 in Zurich ) is a rock musician from Zurich, Switzerland. The singer, songwriter and guitarist moves stylistically between black music, blues and alternative rock. Zela also works as a graphic designer. She lives in Zurich with her two children. She is the widow of the draftsman Christophe Badoux († 2016).
Artistic career
Nadja Zela composes rock, americana, blues, folk and black music. She is also a copywriter of her works and writes mainly in English, occasionally in German and Swiss German. She is considered an unconventional singer with a powerful blues voice and lyrical songwriting.
Zela was a co-founder of the Swiss-wide known women's band Rosebud together with the filmmaker Anna Luif, as well as a founding member and singer of the roundabouts with the filmmaker Micha Lewinsky. She played bass for the musician Roli Strobel's Zurich band Fingerpoke (Hora Band).
In the 1980s and 1990s she gave indie rock a female voice in Switzerland. In addition to the big music festivals, she played in smaller clubs, e.g. B. with Rosebud as the first resident band in the Zurich Helsinki Klub . In 2002 she released her first solo CD, Four Track Songs , a collection of songs that she had recorded for years on her own with a four-track cassette player . In 2006 she founded the rock'n'Soul band Fifty Foot Mama (2005 - 2009), which released the album Hard and Soul on the up-and-coming Zurich indie label Kuenstli.ch. The band consisted of the former rhythm section of "Der böse Bub Eugen". After the breakup, she worked with the drummer "Fish" in a duo under her own name.
In 2009 she released her second solo album Ciao Amore , which she wrote, recorded, mixed and produced by herself again. For the release of the album she founded the label "Patient Records".
In 2012, Wrong Side Of Town , their third solo album (recorded and produced by Olifr Maurmann aka GUZ der Aeronauten ), was released, which achieved considerable independent success in Switzerland and was able to break the borders between German and French-speaking Switzerland.
In 2016 Zela released the album Immaterial World , which is thematically dedicated to the capitalist end-time mood.
Current band formation
- Nadja Zela, vocals and guitar
- Fisch (Martin Fischer), drums and percussion
- Michel Lehner, bass
- Nico Feer, guitar
Discography
Nadja Zela
- Immaterial World, CD / LP 2016 (Patient Records / Irascible)
- Wrong Side Of Town , CD 2012 (Patient Records / Irascible)
Nadja Zela
- Ciao Amore , CD 2009 (Patient Records / Irascible)
Fifty Foot Mama
- Hard and Soul , CD 2007 ( kuenschtli.ch )
- Der Freund Soundtrack to the film by Micha Lewinsky (Song: "Go Away You Dangerous Diamond")
- Big Zis dörf everything (Song: Ich waart )
Rosebud
- Emptiness , Without me , 2004 vinyl single
- The Pillow Mountain 2002 (MakeUp / RecRec )
- 13 songs NET 2000 (MakeUp / RecRec )
- Dynamo 4-track vinyl maxi single 1999
- Ohrewürm : Ruumschiff, 1999 (Tudor)
Nadja Zela
- 4 track songs , CD 2001 (Daisycutter)> Solo debut
- Ciao Amore , CD 2009
- Wrong Side Of Town , CD 2012
Fingerpoke
- The Comic Opera Of Our Real Days CD 1997 (Glow / Tudor )
- Live At The Studio LP 1998 (Irish Mooncake)
The roundabouts
The Whooshings
- Bye-bye tape cassette 1992
- Child / Mask vinyl single 1991 (SSR label)
- Mask 8-track demo tape 1989
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary
- ↑ Exit Music - Love A, May 30, 2015 - Kulturladen, Konstanz. (No longer available online.) In: Exit Music. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014 ; Retrieved April 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zela, Nadja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss singer-songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |