Benjamin Amaru - Dreamers Tour

In the organizer's words:

Lost in thought, graceful, but also hopeful: Benjamin Amaru's songs build bridges between day and night, between shadow worlds and moments of happiness. He transforms what he sees, experiences and feels into music. His life as a musician is "more of an adventure than a career", he says. The piano runs like a common thread through his songs. The last German tour was already completely sold out.

In 2018, Benjamin Amaru sent his first single on its digital world tour. The track was called "Water Falls" and the artist had just celebrated his twentieth birthday. But "Water Falls" certainly didn't sound like the clumsy attempt of a beginner. Even with the airy electronic marimba riffs that led through the track, Amaru demonstrated his fine feel for unusual arrangements. Meanwhile, the voice glided serenely like a surfer over the waves of the elastic melody, appearing just as relaxed in the soulful troubadour register as in falsetto, in which he provided his own backing vocals. It is the precocious blueprint for everything Amaru has composed since then. And yet it sounds very different from the music he creates today.

Benjamin Amaru has now released more than fifty tracks. He has 800,000 regular Spotify listeners per month and generates over 30 million streams per year, all without being signed to a record label. His success is based entirely on "word of mouth", YouTube, Instagram, a lot of hard work - and not least a stylistically confident taste in music.

Benjamin Amaru grew up in the green hills of eastern Switzerland. His mother comes from Iran, his father is Swiss and the family spent a lot of time together in the USA. He was therefore familiar with the idea of different cultures, languages and perspectives from an early age. He was fourteen years old when a friend persuaded him to add some vocals to his hip-hop track. He met the slightly older producer Joe Actill in the studio. The two are still a team today. In the meantime, the duo has become a working group with various other musicians and producers. The name Shelter 12 also appears in Amaru's discography: "Once a year we produce an EP and go on vacation together with the money."

Improvisation and spontaneity, as well as an open ear and a willingness to take a chance on unconventional ideas: these are the cornerstones of every Amaru song. "A melody comes to me in the studio, I play it a hundred, two hundred times, then I sit down and ask myself: what do these notes mean? I like to develop a musical structure that I then sing into myself until only words come out that are there for this song. This can take 15 minutes, sometimes 30, sometimes two hours, or a few short stages over the course of the week. But it always has to come directly, otherwise I throw everything overboard."

Price information:

Box Office 35,00 € Advance booking 31,80 €