Claudia D'Addio

Claudia D'Addio (born April 8, 1980) is a Swiss singer. She was born in Schlieren, a suburb of Zurich. Both parents are Italian immigrants. She grew up in Dietikon, which is close to her place of birth. At the age of seven she began singing in her hometown church choir "Voci Bianche" (White Voices), which she was part of until her teenage days. At home she would listen to soul and R&B tunes, and while singing along she discovered the strength of her own voice. She found inspiration in soul legends such as Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder, Brandy Norwood, and her greatest idol, Italian R&B diva Giorgia. Later, she started to attend karaoke competitions, most of which she was able to win effortlessly.

Music Star

In 2004 her best friend filled out an application form for her to audition for the second season of "Music Star", the Swiss version of "American Idol". Claudia attended the first auditions and impressed the jury. While taking part in this show the show Claudia deservedly received the nickname "The Voice", an indication as to why she ended up among the top three. After the show she went on tour with her fellow contestants. Three Singles were produced for the show, all of them featured Claudia among the music stars and became Nr. 1 records.

She performed at open-air festivals together with Marc Sway and Rolf Stahlhofen, at the "Fashion Club Tour 2005" and at the Swiss "Christopher Street Day 2006" held in Zurich, where she performed as a special music guest. For the Subex gala in Egypt, Claudia was invited to El Quseir and only a few weeks later she was the main act for the Swiss stage at the Olympic Winter Games 2006 in Torino (Italy).

Ralph Siegel asked her to be part of his 2006 Eurovision Song Contest project. She represented Switzerland together with 5 other international artists: Andreas Lundstedt from the Swedish dance formation Alcazar; Marco Matias, an up and coming German artist; Tinka Milinovic, a Bosnian superstar; Keith Camilleri from Malta; and Liel from Israel. The group was called Six4One, as in six singers for one country. The contest took place in Athens, Greece.

Meanwhile, she recorded two songs for the Six4One Album "Six4One – The Album". Both songs "U can't stop me" & "Identità" were released as unofficial single.

In late November 2006 Claudia was a special guest at the prestigious "Pirelli Calendar & Film Release Gala" held at the Imagine in Zurich.

Other projects

Claudia then decided to take a brake to regenerate, to improve her vocal range and to work on different projects. She recorded "Girls gone wild" for DJ Scaloni. The track was then signed by Universal Switzerland. Then worked with Tatana for her tribute album "A Tribute to Trance", where she recorded the Tribute to Chicane's "Saltwater", originally sung by Sarah McLachlan. Claudia also lend her vocals for a wellness product. Later on the tune was remixed by Tatana herself and became the hymn of a whole club tour.

Tanja La Croix, also known as Tanja Wettach, is a famous Swiss Model/DJ-ane. Together with her songwriter, Claudia co-wrote four songs for Tanja's first artist album, "A trip to Bikini Island": Catwalk, Save me (Radio Edit), Wet & DNA (Don't need anything). She is also featuring artist on "Wet" and "DNA".

In 2008, Zurich's Christopher Street Day Committee asked Claudia's songwriter Jiameé if he was interested in writing something for the event. He started a project and included Claudia, Tanja La Croix and Donna Tella (a well-known Swiss Drag Queen) The project obtained the title "Pink Riot" and became the official Christopher Street Day Zurich Hymn 2008. The Song was performed by all tree artist on the 2008 Christopher Street Day Zurich concert stage as opening act for Ultra Naté, Colton Ford and Ari Gold feat. Kelly King.

Claudia is currently working on a few other projects, but is focusing on her debut album, which is scheduled for a 2008/2009 release.

External links

* [http://myclaudia.ch/ Official Website]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=184406808 Claudio D’Addio on MySpace]