Bruno Amstad (1964 – 25 January 2024) was a Swiss singer in the field of

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and

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Life and career

Amstad was at first a

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and rock singer in the 80s. Then, he changed his genre to jazz and

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Christy Doran Christy Doran (born 1949) is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Lucerne, Switzerland. Doran founded OM with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber, and Bobby Burri in the 1970s; this ensemble recorded for ECM. He and Studer also work ...

took him in his project ''New Bag''. He was active in the project for twelve years (with Wolfgang Zwiauer, Fabian Kuratli, Hans-Peter Pfammatter, Dominik Burkhalter and Vincent Membrez). In this project, seven albums were created from 1999 to 2011. Also, he sang in Asita Hamidi's group, Bazaar. He became an important figure of world music in Switzerland, He belonged to Sandro Schneebeli's international project, ''Scala Mobile'' (along with Antonello Messina and

Paul McCandless Paul Brownlee McCandless Jr. (born March 24, 1947) is an American multi-instrumentalist and founding member of the American jazz group Oregon. He is one of the few jazz oboists. He also plays bass clarinet, English horn, flute, penny whistle, ...

). In the last twenty years, Amstad has collaborated with several bands and projects in more than fifty countries. Among the musicians whom he has worked with, can be mentioned

Fredy Studer Fredy Studer (16 June 1948 – 22 August 2022) was a Swiss drummer and percussionist. Biography Fredy Studer was born in Lucerne, Switzerland on 16 June 1948. In 1972, he founded the jazz fusion quartet OM, with guitarist Christy Doran, sa ...

Phil Minton Phil Minton (born 2 November 1940) is a British avant-garde jazz/ free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter. Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook' ...

Lauren Newton Lauren Amber Newton (born 16 November 1952) is an avant-garde jazz and Contemporary classical music, contemporary classical singer and founding member of the Vienna Art Orchestra. Biography Newton earned a degree in music at the University of O ...

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...

, Christian Weber/

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or Martin Baumgartner. In recent years, Amstad has performed more in theater, movie and radio projects. He has cooperated with the ''Werkstatt für Theater Luzern'' for several years. Also, he has worked with Albin Brun for theater. Amstad died of cancer on 25 January 2024.

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