Philipp Fankhauser

Philipp Fankhauser is a Swiss blues singer/guitarist who experienced TOP success in his homeland after 2 decades of saving activity. Created in 1964 in Thun, Switzerland, he started playing music through the past due ’70s after acquiring an unlikely desire for the blues as an adolescent. His desire for the blues was compounded after he went to the 1981 Montreux Jazz Event, where he observed firsthand a overall performance by Albert Collins. Additional American blues legends he noticed in the Montreux Jazz Event through the early ’80s included such luminaries as B.B. Ruler, Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Specifically, a 1984 overall performance by Johnny “Clyde” Copeland remaining a enduring impression on Fankhauser; actually, both became acquainted as well as the Tx tale became a coach towards the Swiss beginner, whose performance profession was learning to be a full-time profession around this time frame. In 1987 Fankhauser founded the Checkerboard Blues Music group and started touring throughout Switzerland, playing a large number of displays a yr. The Checkerboard Blues Music group presented vocalist Margie Evans, and produced their documenting debut in 1989 with Blues for the girl, which Fankhauser created and which he also sang. The Checkerboard Blues Music group — sans Evans — came back in 1991 using their second record, With a sense; two various other albums with the music group followed — Devoted (1992) as well as the live record Thun-San Francisco (1994), the last mentioned offering Evans — before Fankhauser documented the single record On Broadway (1995) in Memphis with manufacturer/songwriter Dennis Walker. From 1994, Fankhauser resided in america, where he toured along with his coach, Copeland, before Texan’s loss of life in 1997. For the time being, a best-of record, His Sort of Blues (1996), was put together being a gap-filler. Fankhauser eventually came back to Switzerland in 2000 and resurrected the Checkerboard Blues Music group for a fresh record, Welcome to real life (2000). Carrying out a live record with the Philipp Fankhauser Blues Music group, the trio display Live — Therefore Damn Great (2003), Fankhauser authorized a recording agreement with Memphis International Information and proceeded release a Speak to Me (2004), a single recording documented in Memphis with maker David Much less. Fankhauser then authorized with Funk Home Blues, a Sony BMG subsidiary, and released his most commercially effective albums to day: Watching through the Safe Part (2006) and Like Man Using (2008), the previous which was a high 20 hit for the Swiss albums graph, the latter a high Ten hit.