minstrels
minstrels
Genres: swiss, switzerland, Schweiz
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About minstrels
The Minstrels were a Swiss music group. The band consisted of Daniel "Dani" Fehr (piano, banjo), Mario Feurer (fiddle) and Pepe Solbach (guitar, voice). They became well known through the piece "Grüezi wohl, Frau Stirnimaa!, which is partly considered the "secret national anthem of Switzerland" In 1967, the band came together in Zurich. Initially, they moved through Zurichs restaurants as hiking musicians in minstrel costumes, with a repertoire of folk, blues and Swiss folk music. A television appearance at the OLMA in St. Gallen in October 1969 made them well-known by one punch. Grüezi wohl, Frau Stirnimaa!(~"Hello, Ms. Stirnimaa!") moved into the Swiss Hit Parade at No. 2 a few days later, where it held seventeen weeks continuously in the top 10, ten weeks of it in first place. It ranked in Germany (place 3) and Austria (#5) and sold 1.5 million copies in 27 countries. At the end of 1970, the three musicians bought and moved into a 16-room house in the Tobel in Trogen. In the basement, a studio was installed, which was used for recordings. In 1971, the Minstrels released their debut album Chrüsimüsi (Swiss-German for "Throught"). The band gave numerous concerts and appeared in television and cinema films.
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