About Ursina Giger

URSINA (english Bio) URSINA is a singer-songwriter from Switzerland. Born and raised in a small village high up in the Swiss mountains, she soon felt the urge to express herself through music. From early on, her musical universe was influenced by classical music and by the folk songs sung in her mother tongue of Romansh, a minority language only spoken in the eastern Swiss Alps. In her teenage years she started to listen to jazz. Furthermore she has always been strongly influenced by alternative and interesting pop music with a twist. In 2010 she decided to pack her bags and travelled to Copenhagen, where she lived during one year. Ursina got to meet musicians from all over Scandinavia and wrote new songs, which were strongly influenced by her nordic surroundings and her being far away from home. The result of that year was captured on the EP «Lontan», which she recorded with her Swiss/Danish band URSINA'S DANISH LABORATORY (01/2012). This collaboration came to an end when Ursina returned to Switzerland. Back home, she unpacked her suitcase of new musical ideas. It didn’t take long before she started working on new songs with a new band. In April 2013 Ursina released a few of these songs on the EP «Time is a Thief». One year later she released her second EP «Hiding behind a Mask» in January 2014. After some touring in Switzerland and abroad she worked on her debut album «You Have My Heart» which was released in January 2017. She’s currently writing new songs.

Work experience

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Ursina's Skills

Live
  • Production Manager
  • Tour Manager
  • Touring Musician
Producing
  • Vocal Producer
Songwriting
  • Co-Writer
  • Top Line

Ursina's Genres

  • Experimental
  • Folk
  • Jazz
  • Pop
  • Standards
  • World

Ursina's Experience

I grew up with classical music, sang in choirs as a kid. Later on listened to a lot of pop music. Later on I studied Jazz Music and started writing my own songs. During university I jobbed as a sound engineer in the schools jazz club. During that time (around 2011) I also formed my band URSINA, which is my main project since then. I did most of the things by myself – writing, playing the music, leading the band, booking, managment stuff, organising studio sessions, looking for the money, releasing music etc. During that period a learned so much. Nowadays I have a booking agent for Switzerland and a small label that releases my music, but I’m still doing a lot by myself.