Artist Spotlight: Luca Hänni
Written by WOW! Radio on April 12, 2019
Hänni was born in Bern, Switzerland. During his time in kindergarten Hänni received drum lessons. At the age of nine, he taught himself playing the guitar and piano. After finishing school, he began the training as a bricklayer, which he stopped in 2012, in his second training year, in favor of his music career.
In June 2012, the Swiss trading company ‘Migros’ engaged Luca Hänni for its men’s underwear brand Nick Tyler as a testimonial. In this context the company published a series of underwear for man with the name Nick Tyler by Luca, for which Hänni worked as a model. Moreover, there was a women’s collection which was called Luca’s Favorite Edition. The cooperation with Migros also involved commitment in the context of support for children, as for example during the Grand Prix Migros-finals on April 4, 2014 in Arosa for Hanni.
On 24 August 2012, Hänni opened the auditions to tenth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar in his native city Bern, for which he was seen in an advertising campaign since July 2012. In December 2012, Hänni presented the RTL II program BRAVO The Hits 2012 – The Show. At the 11th Wok World Championships 2013 in Oberhof, Hänni was a driver and finished at 6th place with the Swiss four-man wok team. The last project was with the Swiss DJ Christopher S in 2014. The project had several club appearances and toured through Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The album Dance Until We Die, which was released in April, reached No. 6 in the Swiss album charts. A piano version of the song ‘I can’t get no sleep’ (only Luca and the piano), from the current album, was released worldwide in early September 2014. In close cooperation with the DKMS (German Bone Marrow Donor Center), which he supports, Hänni wrote and published the song “Only One You” in November 2014, all proceeds will go to the DKMS. In November 2014, he supported Migros with a Christmas song, together with other Swiss musicians.
The song “Ensemble” is a charity project and supports the needy in Switzerland. On 21 November 2014, the video was released and reached platinum status. In November/December 2014 Luca participated in the new Swiss evening show ‘Battle of the orchestra’. All formations, occurring in ‘Battle of the orchestra’ were supported by a prominent and full-fledged team-member. This person was integrated into the group and sang or played an instrument in the musical shows. He supported the Lucerne formation BML Talents as a prominent member and won the title.
From mid-January to February 2015 Luca was in Los Angeles. In the studio 17 Hertz in the North of Hollywood, they produced his 4th studio album. The Swiss music producer Fabian Egger produced this album in Los Angeles. There is support of some music greats like Andre Merritt (Songwriter artists such as Chris Brown, Rihanna and Justin Bieber) or James Fauntleroy (Co-car of Justin Timberlake single “Pusher Love Girl”).
In 2019, Hanni was announced as Switzerland’s representative at Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He will perform the song “She Got Me”. This will be Hanni’s second involvement with Eurovision, he previously was Switzerland’s spokesperson in the 2017 contest.
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