Sue Schell

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Sue Schell as part of Peter, Sue & Marc with the contribution Djambo Djambo at the Eurovision Song Contest 1976

Sue Schell (born April 6, 1950 in New York ), actually Susan Schell, is a Swiss-American singer .

childhood

Sue Schell is the daughter of a Swiss woman from Bern and a Jewish doctor who is the descendant of an Austrian immigrant family. The father was on duty during the Korean War . During this time, Schell grew up with her mother in very modest circumstances in Harlem . After her father's return they divorced and at the age of eight she moved to Bern with her mother and brother Peter .

Musical career

Schell first discovered her voice at the age of fourteen while practicing a song from My Fair Lady . In 1968 she first met Marc Dietrich at a festival, where they spontaneously played music together and interpreted the Bee Gees . Marc Dietrich was impressed by her vocal performance and therefore introduced her to his friend Peter Reber when she was invited to her home . That evening the three sang together for the first time and then founded the band Peter, Sue & Marc . Schell was on the road with the group until they were dissolved in 1981. In 1982 she started a solo career. With the song Simple Things she reached a top 5 place in the Swiss charts on October 10, 1982. When she couldn't build on earlier successes after her second solo album in 1984, her producers gave up. Schell then released another album under his own direction in 1987.

Today's life

As a result, she withdrew from public life and spent a few months in a Buddhist monastery in Sri Lanka . She lived in a spiritual community in Berlin for six years . In Berlin she was socially committed and campaigned for AIDS sufferers. In 1998 she returned to Switzerland and lived in Teufen . She sings contemplative, spiritual and esoteric songs and occasionally appears in church services or social events. She is often accompanied by her colleague Jutta Wurm. During the year she spends a lot of time with Buddhist meditations and yoga and goes to a Zen Buddhist monastery in Germany for two to three months a year.

Discography

  • Friend to Friend (1982)
  • Here, There And Everywhere (1984)
  • Sometimes (1987)
  • Breathe, You Are Alive (2002, with Jutta Wurm)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birthday list
  2. ↑ a b c Andreas Fischer: Voice of the Soul  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Kirchenbote June / July 2006 edition@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirchenbote-sg.ch  
  3. ↑ hitparade.ch: Interview with Peter Reber . Retrieved May 14, 2009
  4. ↑ Simple Thing on hitparade.ch
  5. ^ Peter Padrutt: Peter, Sue & Marc: The Comeback . In: Blick, October 24, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Schell, Sue
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schell, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-American singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH new York