Christine Zufferey

2006 was a year of challenges. Christine returned to her old Europe. She was home again, back on the hill of her childhood, full circle, there she spent her summer writing and recording her first solo album, ?? d?couvert? (?Uncovered?). Christine grew up in the Rhone Valley of the Swiss Alps... and much of the world seemed remote... However at age 17, she spent a year in California to study English, the language of her favorite songs and artists.

A few years later, she returned to the U.S. and settled in Boston, where she studied film scoring and sang as often as she could in a succession of rock bands.


Her musical journey begins with ?January?, a rock/pop/alt band that records
three CDs. In parallel, Christine joined the dark art-rock quintet ?Sabot?;
group made two records, gathered a strong following of Gothic music fans,
before disbanding in 1999.


Next came ?All the Queen's Men? (AQM), a hybrid rock/electronica (or
rocktronica) band. AQM produced two CDs, one of them a double-album
featuring remixes of the songs by international DJs. Christine took AQM
to tour her native Europe.



Then Christine discovered that her voice was a great fit for the work of the legendary Edith Piaf. AQM learned twelve of her songs. Thus ?Ziaf? was born. And for Christine, a return to her native language. The appeal of this new group grew fast, especially in Europe. It was featured in the documentary film, ?Marguerite Monnot, Dans l'ombre de Piaf?. Georges Moustaki, writer of ?Milord? and other Piaf songs, praised Ziaf for its ?freshness, musicality, rhythm, talent, sensibility, emotion...Piaf would have loved to hear these songs?.


In 2005, she recorded a CD with the electronic group ?Vavoom? that marked the first time that both French and English were sung, whispered, and wailed side-by-side by this bold, voluptuous voice.

Today, Christine is daring to venture on her own with the release of a first solo CD, a collection of French songs, ?? d?couvert?, that she wrote, performed, recorded and produced. Sometimes one needs to leave and go far away to find oneself and make peace with home. And sometimes returning home becomes the start of a whole new adventure.

Christine has already been invited several times by Serge Le Vaillant on the french national radio ?France Inter?, as well as on the Swiss ?Radio Suisse Romande la 1?re?. Live, she plays either alone, or with Pierre Gueguen on guitar, Samuel Pont on bass, and Sam Amos on drums.

She performs in Switzerland, France, and recently opened up for Georges Moustaki in Bruxelles. She played at a festival along with performers such as Yannick Noah. She also works with Bernard Arcadio, piano (pianist, composer, arranger for Claude Nougaro, Michel Jonasz, Henri Salvador), Herv? Cavelier, violin (Bireli Lagrene, Nougaro, L?o Ferr?, Django'd'Or), Jean-Philippe Audin, cello (Solal, Lockwood, Levallet, Stephan Eicher, ex-cellist of the Lyon Opera) and Gilles Perrin, percussionist (Gilbert B?caud, Michel Fugain, Nougaro, Ivan Julien, Aldo Romano, Jimmy Slide).