Hearing ‘Won­der­wall’ by Oa­sis was like flipping a light switch on. I re­al­ly want­ed to be able to play it on gui­tar. I want­ed to be­come a mu­si­cian. Learning to play my favourite songs grew into composing my own. Even so, I wouldn’t call my­self a ‘gui­tarist’, but rather a well-round­ed mu­si­cian as I also play drums or what­ev­er else a track needs. I’ve picked up many dif­fer­ent in­stru­ments and don’t limit myself by thinking I’ve nev­er learned this or that in­stru­ment. I pro­duce both original songs and songs in col­lab­o­ra­tion with oth­er mu­si­cians.

While com­pos­ing my own songs, I saw that a band in Aar­gau was look­ing for a singer. This was my en­try into the world of mu­sic where I got to know many oth­er mu­si­cians. Once you become a part of this community, you start recognising faces and developing a real sense of home where everyone supports each other. The band start­ed to be­come more pro­fes­sion­al, which led to the production of our first al­bum. After cutting our album, we started getting requests for live performances.

Repeatedly rehearsing songs is an important part of prepar­ing for a show. I make sure to play the en­tire set from start to fin­ish the night be­fore, like a school kid cramming the night be­fore an exam. It’s an im­por­tant part of my process. Even so, I still get but­ter­flies be­fore every show; it’s just part of the experience. I’m not think­ing about what could go wrong, it’s more the an­tic­i­pa­tion and excitement that comes from play­ing mu­sic for oth­er peo­ple.

I started at TBF because I needed money to finance my second album. Soon, though, I got involved in complex projects and started specialising in land acquisition. Exciting stuff! However, I needed to give my creative side more room to express itself, and a radical change of roles within TBF paired with a reduction in working hours gave me that. Now I can live my life exactly as I want to. And I can put the knowledge I’ve gained in legal matters and contracts to good use as the owner of a record company.

I don’t claim to be a synesthete. Numbers don’t have colours for me and I can’t smell words. That said: TBF is red, in the key of A major. So it’s pop music.