1. Edwin Fischer (1886)

Swiss Musician

Considered one of the 20th century's greatest piano pedagogues and interpreters of traditional Germanic repertoire.

2. Paul Baumgartner (1903)

Swiss Musician

Musician who was also the author of The Seven Searchers and Other Poems when he was 12.

3. Albert Ferber (1911)

Swiss Musician

Swiss classical pianist and teacher who was primarily a solo recitalist.

4. DJ BoBo (1968)

Swiss Musician

Born Peter René Cipriano Baumann, he was nominated for an Echo Award for Best National Pop Male Artist.

5. Alex Bugnon (1958)

Swiss Musician

Jazz pianist and composer who became a recipient of the Soul Train Music Award and a featured player on the R&B charts.

6. Homero Francesch (1947)

Swiss Musician

Acclaimed Swiss musician known for performing and recording both contemporary and classical works.

7. Jojo Mayer (1963)

Swiss Musician

Swiss-born drummer who became known for his work in the jazz and electronic music genres. He founded a group called Nerve and also performed with such bands as Intergalactic Maiden...

8. DJ Antoine (1975)

Swiss Musician

Multi-Echo Award nominee for Best Dance Artist and multi-Swiss Music Award winner for Best National Dance Album. He is a DJ and producer known for hits such as "Welcome To...

9. Urs Bühler (1971)

Swiss Musician

Classically-trained tenor who has performed with the operatic pop group Il Divo.

10. Electroboy (1974)

Swiss Musician

Electroboy is a Swiss electronic musician and music producer. He lives in Bochum Germany and is often in Zürich Switzerland. Electroboy produces electronic trash-pop and electroclash with simple cheeky...

11. Lionel Rogg (1936)

Swiss Musician

Lionel Rogg is a Swiss organist composer and teacher of musical theory. Among many other distinctions he has recorded the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach three times. Rogg...

12. Daniel Humair (1938)

Swiss Musician

Daniel Humair is a drummer jazz composer and painter. He is widely renowned and became a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1986. He has played with many jazz performers...

13. Henri Dès (Unknow)

Swiss Musician

Henri Dès is a Swiss French-language children's singer and songwriter immensely popular in European Francophone countries. In 1970 he released his first album Retour. Dès also founded his own record...

14. Rocco Filippini (1943)

Swiss Musician

Rocco Filippini in Lugano-Switzerland is a classical cellist.

15. Phil Carmen (1953)

Swiss Musician

Phil Carmen is a Swiss musician and producer of Canadian heritage.

16. Andreas Vollenweider (1953)

Swiss Musician

Andreas Vollenweider is a Swiss musician. His music has been categorized as World Music Jazz New Age and even Classical; two of his albums were No. 1 on the Billboard...

17. Chiara Banchini (1946)

Swiss Musician

Chiara Banchini is a Swiss violinist involved in the historical performance practice movement. She specializes in the music of the Baroque. Banchini was born in 1946 in Lugano Switzerland. She...

18. Günter Müller (1954)

Swiss Musician

Günter Müller is a German sound artist that originally performed as a percussionist and drummer active primarily in free improvisation. He was born in Munich West Germany in 1954 on...

19. Christy Doran (1949)

Swiss Musician

Christy Doran is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin Ireland and raised in Lucerne Switzerland. Doran founded OM with Fredy Studer Urs Leimgrumber and Bobby Burri in the 1970s; this...

20. Carlos Perón (1952)

Swiss Musician

Carlos Perón is a Swiss musician. He was a founding member of the band Yello.

21. Felix Haug (1952)

Swiss Musician

x Haug was the drummer and keyboardist for the Swiss band Double from the time of its creation in 1981 to its disbandment in 1987. He died of a heart...

22. Roland Dahinden (1962)

Swiss Musician

Roland Dahinden is a Swiss trombonist and composer. He was born in Zug Switzerland. He studied the trombone and composition at Musikhochschule Graz with Erich Kleinschuster and Georg Friedrich Haas...

23. Gölä (1968)

Swiss Musician

Marco Pfeuti better known by his stage name of Gölä is a popular Swiss rock musician performing mainly in Bernese German.

24. Thierry Lang (Unknow)

Swiss Musician

Thierry Lang is a Swiss composer and jazz pianist. In 2006 Lang gave a concert in his native village of Romont along with bassist Heiri Kanzig and violinist Didier Lockwood....

25. Sylvie Courvoisier (1968)

Swiss Musician

Sylvie Courvoisier is a Swiss composer and pianist. Courvoisier was born and raised in Switzerland. In 1998 she moved to Brooklyn New York where she currently resides. She co-leads the...

26. Emil Frey (composer) (1889)

Swiss Musician

Emil Frey was a Swiss composer pianist and teacher.

27. Thierry Fischer (1957)

Swiss Musician

Thierry Fischer is a Swiss orchestra conductor and flutist. Fischer was born in Zambia to Swiss parents who had been missionaries and studied flute with Aurèle Nicolet and began his...

28. Adriana Kaegi (1957)

Swiss Musician

Adriana Kaegi moved to New York City at the age of 18 to learn the art of entertainment. She co-founded the band Kid Creole and the Coconuts together with August...

29. Daniel Kandlbauer (1983)

Swiss Musician

Daniel Kandlbauer is a Swiss pop musician who achieved notoriety on the Swiss reality show MusicStars. Kandlbauer was one of the finalists of the show and he performed songs on...

30. Sevan Kirder (1980)

Swiss Musician

Sevan Kirder is the flutist/bagpiper for the Swiss band Red Shamrock.

31. Rafi Kirder (1980)

Swiss Musician

Rafi Kirder is the bassist for the Swiss band Red Shamrock he also plays slap bass and tic tac bass in Swiss outlaw country band Deathrope under his alter persona...

32. Ian Christe (1970)

Swiss Musician

Ian Christe is an author disc jockey and the publisher of Bazillion Points Books. He attended Mynderse Academy The Clarkson School's Bridging Year and Indiana University. Christe is the author...

33. Seelenluft (1971)

Swiss Musician

Beat Solèr better known by his stage name Seelenluft is a producer of electronic music from Switzerland.

34. Roger Staffelbach (1972)

Swiss Musician

Roger Staffelbach was born on February 19 1972 in Sursee Switzerland. At the age of 7 he started learning to play the trumpet which he continued until he was 14....

35. Andy Egert (1961)

Swiss Musician

Andreas Andy Egert is a Swiss blues guitarist harmonica player and singer. Egert who started his career around 30 years ago as a street musician is mainly a live performing...