Anna Rossinelli (born 20 April 1987 in

Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...

) is a

Swiss Swiss most commonly refers to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland * Swiss people Swiss may also refer to: Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina * Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses * Swiss Café, an old café located ...

singer-songwriter A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. In the United States, the category is built on the folk- acoustic tradition with a guitar, although this role has ...

. Rossinelli is part of a

pop-soul Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in African-American communities throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body movements, are an important hall ...

trio band of her name. Georg Dillier and Manuel Meisel are also part of the trio.

Music career

''Eurovision Song Contest''

On 11 December 2010, Rossinelli won the Swiss national final (''Die grosse Entscheidungs Show''), with the song ''In Love for a While'' and represented

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

at the

Eurovision Song Contest 2011 The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 was the 56th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Düsseldorf, Germany, following the country's victory at the with the song "Satellite" by Lena. Organised by the European Broadcasting Uni ...

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. On 10 May 2011, she joined the first semifinal of the show. She entered the finale successfully thanks to the jury vote. Unfortunately, Switzerland ended up last that year.

2011-present: ''Bon Voyage'' and present

On 14 October 2011, Rossinelli released the lead single from her debut album ''Joker''. It was written by Phillipa Alexander, Ellie Wyatt, Alex Ball, Vicky Nolan. It was produced by Fred Herrmann. She released her debut album '' Bon Voyage'' on 9 December 2011. On 6 March 2013, her next single was published.
Let It Go
' is the first single from her upcoming album, ''Marylou'' which was released on 3 May 2013 and debuted at number one. On 7 February 2014, Rossinelli re-release her album ''Marylou'' under the new title '' Marylou Two'' with the bonus tracks
Shine In The Light
',
Let It Go (Live)
',
Vagabonds (Live)
',
Reconcile
' and
Shine In The Light (Piano Version)
'. The Swiss television studio SRF used the single '' Shine in the Light'' as their official song for the broadcast of the 2014 Winter Olympic. After the fifth album
Takes Two To Tango
', Anna Rossinelli released a fifth album on the 18 January 2019. The album had singles such as
Union
',
Jewellery
',
Feel It
' and
Hold Your Head Up
', which was also the lead single of the album
White Garden
'. Due to the

Covid-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

, the tour accompanying this album was cancelled. At the end of 2022, the band announced a new album called
Mother
' for the upcoming summer. On 22 February 2023, the "Mother"-Tour was announced after the release of the album in the fall of that year.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Web links

Anna Rossinelli
on

Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

Anna Rossinelli
on

Instagram Instagram is an American photo sharing, photo and Short-form content, short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with Social media camera filter, filters, be ...

Anna Rossinelli
on

TikTok TikTok, known in mainland China and Hong Kong as Douyin (), is a social media and Short-form content, short-form online video platform owned by Chinese Internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which may range in duration f ...

References

Living people 1987 births 21st-century Swiss women singers Musicians from Basel-Stadt Swiss-German people Swiss singer-songwriters Swiss women singer-songwriters Eurovision Song Contest entrants {{Switzerland-singer-stub