BIOGRAPHY

Benno Ernst was born in 1982 in the small Swiss town of Aarau. He began playing guitar at the age of seven. Since then, he has played in over 20 different bands, launched projects in theater and film, spent a total of six months in Buenos Aires to dance tango, and worked part-time as an event technician for around ten years. Since 2015, Benno Ernst has lived with his family in the countryside, where his wife runs a horse farm. Today, Benno Ernst is a freelance and self-employed live and studio musician and participates in theater and film projects. He also helps out in the stables and tends forests and meadows. He is busy yet loves idleness, equally in need of urban hustle and bustle and the tranquility of nature, lives as wildly and freely as possible, is an opportunist and realist with a weakness for utopias.

 

Current artistic work: 

 

- Niño (singer-songwriter) 

- Duo Hendrix Ackle & Niño (blues/soul) 

- Chommerbuebe (dialect songs) 

- Sugar and the Josephines (jazz/evergreens) 

- Salut les Copains (chansons) 

- The Sheds (Irish traditional/folk) 

- Crown Affair (smooth jazz-funk) 

- 3 Flats (jazz-funk) 

- STEEM (alternative rock) 

- The Möckli Tales (theatrical reading) ​ 

 

His goal is always to be able to implement ideas according to his own taste, without regard for losses, directly and honestly. His own artistic freedom has always been more important to him than commercial success. Authenticity, simplicity, and joy are the most important things in his work as an artist.