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Biography
Wonderfully expressive and refreshingly versatile, Sabine
Fiegl sets out with her third CD to tackle nothing less than life today.
The result: fourteen stimulating and insightful compositions influenced
by jazz, blues, pop, soul and singer/songwriter material.
As the title suggests, her songs are about the quality of life. A
wake-up call to make more time for yourself, to live more consciously,
to see the ruts you may have got into — and should try and get out of.
She tells of powerlessness, of the search for love and solace, of
finding – and relishing – peace and contentment. And of the various
states of emotion that, over the course of time, we all have to go
through.
Sabine's ideas for her music come from processing her own experiences
and observations. She reflects, analyzes and philosophizes about
everyday occurrences — in effect about life itself. She uses the lyrics,
the melody, the arrangement, an inimitable feeling for rhythm and, not
least, her expressive wonderful voice to musically translate those
impressions into reality.
New York, that huge melting pot of different cultures and influences,
was the ideal place to record these songs. As it was for her first CD I
wonder and her second Today's A Good Day. Right in the heart of
Brooklyn, in the renowned Park West Studios, she and her band (plus a
few American pals) recorded the tracks live.
Music is Sabine's life. Born in Rüti in the hills of the Zurich
Oberland, Sabine began singing as a child, joined several choirs and
co-wrote her first songs at the tender age of fifteen with her then
band: the Speedways. As a youth group leader and as a teacher, she
penned songs for children and teenagers. She performed regularly with a
party band (Flying Fish) and with a big band (The RP Big Band).
She went on to train as a Professional Performing Artist at the Vocal
Institute of Technology in Los Angeles. At the degree ceremony, she was
presented with the Outstanding Student Award.
Back in Switzerland, Sabine worked as a singer on several projects both
at home and abroad – with the Big Band Liechtenstein, for instance – and
as vocal coach in Wetzikon, Winterthur and Liechtenstein. She
continually worked on her own material before finally making her dream
come true, in 1996, by recording her first CD: I wonder. Her first son
was born in 1999. In 2002, she returned to her other creative career as
singer/songwriter and producer with Today's A Good Day. Her second son
was born in 2003. And now in 2007, she's released her latest CD: Quality
Time. Produced by her husband, Hannes Würgler, it appears on the Jazz
Elite Special label (Turicaphon).
Sabine Fiegl lives with her family in Zurich.
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