Rock'n'Roll...


Kirsty and Danny


Open-Air St. Gallen


With Christoph Walter Orchestra - KKL Lucerne


With Kirsty Bertarelli


With Sophie Ellis-Bextor


With Natacha & Marc Storace


Aeschbacher's TV Show


Keep Smiling (Gurten Festival)


With William White

Biography

UP TO DATE September 2010

  

  

September 5th  -  Concert with EVE KAY. She was in the 90’s very successful with the Eurodance-Band GARCIA. Hits such a Bamboleo, Kalimba de Luna, Vamonos were in all European hitparades.

 

 

August 21th 8:00 p.m.  -  KÖNIGSGALA  on  SF1  (first Swiss television channel)

Saturdaynight prime time show with the top Swiss-Cracks.

 

 

August 11th 11:00 a.m.  -  TOP POP RUMANTSCH Single Release from the new upcoming Swiss reggae singer TIZ I-GRATOR with his new track:  "Quai nu va".  (more infos)

 

 

July 18th: Concert in Edinburgh Castle U.K. with KIRSTY and SIMPLY RED.

June 30th: Showcase (live clip) with in the Garouge Theatre in Geneva. After "Black Coffee" the No #1 Hit in the U.K., I'm very excited about it. Here you can see a sample from the TV-Show Benissimo.

 

 

I am looking forward to meet you at some of the next concerts.

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

2008  1 Week No # 7 in the Swiss Charts

2006  4 weeks No #1 in the Swiss Charts

2005  PLATIN AWARD

2004  GOLDEN AWARD for “Baschi” album

2004  Best selling Single (Switzerland)

 

Danny Hertach was born in Zurich as a son of passionate amateur conductor.

As a child, he was classically trained as a violin player, he played mainly classical music in chamber and in larger orchestras.

 

As a teenager, in his rebellious times and during his studies at the High School of Music and Art in Zurich he changed the violin for a bass guitar and with this decision emergered the biggest love of his lifetime and because of this he specialized in bass guitar. During college Danny already had the chance to play with the biggest musicians of his country. Such as Polo Hofer (The king of Swiss Folk Music), Nubya (The Swiss Gospel Queen), Florian Schneiders (The famous Musical Voice) etc.

 

Currently Danny Hertach is thought of as one of the hottest studio and live bassist in the Switzerland. Miscellaneous chart placements among others things including three No. 1 hits in the year 2004, made him an almost hit guarantee. Therefore Danny plays a lot of concerts, He toured across the whole of Switzerland and in neighboring countries; he has appeared in TV Music shows and some music Video clips with international superstars as Sophie Ellis-Bextor (GB), Maria Mena (NOR), CeCe Rogers (James Brown/ Jestofunk), Carmen Fenk ( the winner of Swiss Music Idol) and many others.

 

Danny is not only playing pop he is active in classical music as well.

He was in the Classic Cinema 1st & 2nd project, “The biggest music film of all time”

Just like the contrabass player in The Phil Franklin Jazz band (GB), and Dave Hertig’s Upswingband (CH), Danny shows his talent as an excellent swing musician with an enormous style spectrum

 

 

 

For a few years now his name has frequently appeared as an arranger of symphonic or music for strings and brass band works, as well as his teaching music courses (note reading for electric-bass players, books

1 to 3).

 

This year Danny attempt his first steps as a producer.

 

 

Bands /Projects

 

 

2010          Kirsty Bertarelli - (GB)

2010          Step Bindella - ( Mel Collins, Slädu, Danny Gwada)

2010          Regi Sager - ( Willy Bischof, Curt Treier, Bill von Arx)

2010          Christoph Walter Orchestra  feat.  I QUATTRO the four tenors

 

2009            Miracle Flair - (Rock)

2009         Miraval Live - (J.P. von Dach, Tony Castel, M. Dreta, J. Tönduri, Nico Looser, Pim Nieulands) 

2009         Daniela Brun & Danny Hertach's Jazzlounge

2009          Eve Kay - (formerly Garcia)

 

2008         Miraval - (Walter Keiser, JeanPierre von Dach, Pim Nieuwlands)

2008         Little Shop of Horrors - (Musical)

2007-2009 NBA - (V. Colaiuta, A. Laboriel, G. Willis, M. Caspar, A. Muller)

2007-2009 Just Jazz - (Top 40)

 

2007         Natacha - (7fach Gold & doppel Platin)

2007         Camen - (R'n'B)

2007         Just Jazz - (Top 40)

 

2006         William White and The Emergency

2005-2006 Europa-Park - (Dinner-Show im Variéte)

2005-2006 Kurt Weil & Robi Weber - (Jazz)

 

2005           William White - (Barbados-Reggae-Rock)

2001-2005 Phil Franklin (GB) - (Oldtime Jazz)

2004-2005 Chicago Mountain Swing - (100 Jahre Glen Miller & Duke Ellington)

2003-2005 Jazzlounge - (Jazzy-Acoustic-Ambient)

 

2004         Maria Mena - (Norway)

2004         Baschi (MusicStar Teilnehmer) - (Rock)

2004         Carmen Fenk (MusicStar Siegerin) - (Video)

2003-2004 Dave Hertig Upswing Band - (Swing)

 

2003         Sophie Ellis-Bextor - (Pop)

2002-2003 CeCe Rogers Nu Phunk (Jestofunk) - (New-Funk, Acid-Jazz)

2003         Red Strokes - (Country)
2003-        The HairTea Group - (Latin-Jazz, Fusion)

 

2002          Polo Hofer - (Swiss Folk)

2002          Coal - (Country)
2002-2003 Classic Cinema II mit Mardi Byers, Yasmine Meguid

2000-2002 Classic Cinema I mit Nubya, Florian Schneider

 

1998-1999 The Funkadelics - (Funk, Fusion)

1995-1998 TropiCool (Bra/CH) - (Musica Popular Brasileira)

1995-1997 Critical ACID - (Funk, Acid-Jazz)
1992-1994 The Lazy Bones - (Punk Rock)

 

1990-1992 The Proceed - (Hard Rock)

1990          And After The Dark - (Punk, Sixties)

1988-1990 The Scream - (Punk)
1983-1988 Jugendorchester - (Klassik)

 

Music aducation

 

2001-2003 High School of Music and Art in Zurich (HMT)

1997-2001 Studium A.C.M höhere Fachschule für Musik

1988-1996 E-Bass class, Workshops (irregular)

1978-1988 Jugendmusikschule Violine

1976-1978 Jugendmusikschule Blockflöte