London born, late-comer Alexander Johnson had lived an unusual and interesting life before he started to manifest all his many experiences, into lyrics and music. A fervent reader and music lover, Alexander's life-long dream was always to be, in some form or another, an artist.
In the year 2001 a friend asked Alexander if he could write lyrics for some music for fun, he agreed. Alexander soon realised that he had a talent dormant, a flair for writing, long ignored since his youth.
A request to write lyrics for a bar related blues, planted the seeds of the ambitious musical work "Storm" into Alexander's head. Alexander worked most of 2003 and 2004 alone: researching, rewriting, and creating; by the end of 2004 he had a script and the lyrics, to most of the songs, down on paper.
February 2005 saw chance encounter with a co-composer, and August 2008 most of the songs of the musical STORM were recorded by some of Switzerland's finest performing and studio musicians, while a professional creative team brought the STORM to stage for the first time in May 2009, much acclaimed by audience and press alike.
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Saw the first daylight of his life in December 1976 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Found his first musical roots with 5 years old after hearing an Elvis LP. At 8 years old he was already hitting the keys on his Aunt’s piano, ”the piano always had a magical effect on me”.
Andy went on to the Jazz school of Zurich.
As a young teenager Andy’s talents soon found him in demand to play in local bands, and in time his passion for the blues hit the ears of Chicago blues legends.
“I suddenly got calls to back blues greats such as, Aaron Burdon and Sugar Blue. I mean little Andy from Switzerland backing musicians who were on first name basis with the likes of Willie Dixon and Ray Charles, WOW!”
A fellow musician introduced Andy to Alex who explained his musical idea to him, “I was feeling at a low on the creative side, so I was happy to jump at the opportunity to go a stage further in my music life, and to tell you the truth, I was more than happy at the outcome”.
I hope you enjoy listening to the music as much as I have enjoyed creating it!

Classical ballet and musical artist, education as choreographer and director. Co-choreographer at the “Theater des Westens“ for the musical «Blue Jeans». As choreographer he also worked in productions directed by Dominik Flaschka such as the Shake Musical Company in Zurich as well as «Drei Bräute für ein Halleluja» at the Casinotheater in Winterthur.
Furthermore world premieres of “Heidi – Das Musical“ and “Heidi – Das Musical, Part 2“ in Walenstadt, «Anything Goes» in Gelsenkirchen and Mannheim, «Silk Stockings» in Gelsenkirchen and supervised the tour programme of the a-cappella-group “a-live“.
Artistic and resident director to the musical “Deep“ in Zurich, and choreographed “Singin’ in the Rain“ at the same time at the Stadttheater in Berne. Later “Hello Dolly“.
Markus debut directing 2005 in Brunnen for “No Way to Treat a Lady“. Furthermore stage direction and choreography for “Manche mögens heiss“ on the lake stage in Brunnen. His most recent directing works were “Downtown – Die Musicalrevue“ in Brunnen, “Blood Brothers“ in Berne, and the last two years of the production “Charivari“ in Basel.

Brought up in Germany's Rhineland, the graduated travel agent spent many years working in Düsseldorf, and moved to Frankfurt in 1988 for a new venture. There she pursued a career in airline and travel automation, until she joined a Swiss partner in Zurich in 1992.
Special projects in the travel industry at first, Dot.Com brought her, amongst others, to projects in San Francisco, New York and São Paulo. A versatile management curriculum in consulting, marketing, telecommunication, trade show organisation and web design led to her own business in the music industry in 2003.
With "g r media" Gabriele brings Swiss music productions to download and mobile music shops world-wide. She is a music publisher, online communi-cations consultant, blogger, and new media teacher.
Together with Alex Johnson Gabriele administers the STORM's performing rights as co-founder of Seven Beland.
Gabriele translated STORM's spoken word to High-German. With a history in writing for communication projects, in 2006 she translated Gerd Leonhard's industry best-seller "The Future of Music" to German.

Little melodies on the piano at the age of 3, followed by the passion to play drums, aimed for a career as jazz drummer with his teacher Pierre Favre.
At 12, Urs already toured with the Swiss National TV Big Band, and was soon regarded as one of the greatest young talents of the Swiss music scene.
Several years of gigs in Switzerland's best jazz clubs followed, playing with his older brother and jazz pianist Chris Wiesendanger. Turning 15, Urs began to write and produce, giving his career a new direction. Shortly later, Urs began to produce full time, working with many famous Swiss artists, e.g. DJ Bobo, Nubya, Swiss Musicstar finalist Carmen Fenk. Urs produced half of her album in 2004, even contributing a song. Today, Urs can be considered one of the most skillful arrangers and producers in Europe, so he worked many times in L.A. with some of the greatest musicians there, in arranging and playing jobs on the albums "Midnight" and "State of Grace" by Jeff Lorber. Urs also worked with sax players Dave Koz, Warren Hill, producer Mickey Petralia, drummer John Robinson, guitarists Chris Camozzi, Michael Landau, Dean Parks, vocalist Warren Wiebe and countless more.
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