Hecht is a

pop rock Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, earl ...

band hailing from

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. One of their albums and one of their singles have been awarded gold status in Switzerland and all their full-length albums were in the national charts for multiple weeks. They perform in the band's native

Swiss German Swiss German (Standard German: , gsw, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no defined orthography for any of them, many different spelling ...

language.

History

Together with Rolf Furrer, Stefan Buck and Cristoph Schröter founded the Band ''Seng'', that would later be renamed to ''Hecht'', in the year 2000 in

. Buck and Schröter were already acquainted with each other from growing up in the same village. In the band's early years their music was performed in English. From 2010 onward they started experimenting with music in the

language. In 2011 Philipp Morscher and Daniel Gisler became part of the band. This is also the year in which they changed their name to ''Hecht'' and they released their first songs in Swiss German called ''Tänzer'' and ''24 Bilder'' as well as the EP ''Revier Songs''. As support group for Baschi and 77 Bombay Street ''Hecht'' got introduced to a broader audience. In May 2012 the band released their first full-length album called ''Wer zerscht s'Meer gsehd''. It peaked at number 72 in the Swiss charts. Following this, the band won in the category ''Best Talent National'' at the

Swiss Music Awards The Swiss Music Awards (SMA) is Switzerland's largest award ceremony for music, and serves to promote the national music scene and showcase its cultural diversity. The event allows newcomers to introduce their music to a broader public, while also ...

. In 2015 they contributed the official song for ''SRF bewegt'', a week long health campaign from the Swiss national broadcasting station SRF and the Federal Offices of health, sport and energy. On 28 August in the same year, their second album ''Adam + Eva'' was released. It entered the chart on number 5. On 9 March 2018 the bands most successful album ''Oh Boy'' was released. It peaked at number 2 of the charts and received favourable critique in the press. On 28 October 2019 ''Hecht'' played their largest concert to this day in the Hallenstadion Zurich. During the preparations for this concert the band was accompanied by a film crew and a documentary of it was broadcast on 24 November on the television channel

SRF 1 SRF 1 (''SRF eins'') is a German-language Swiss television channel, one of three produced by the SRG SSR public-service broadcasting group (the others being SRF zwei and SRF info). The channel, formerly known as SF1, was renamed on 16 Decemb ...

Music videos

''Hecht'' is known for their original and energetic music and live videos in which the band members perform dance choreographies. The band has worked together with the Zurich-based film-producer Claude Gabriel with whom they created videos for their songs ''Surfer'', ''Heicho'', ''Kawasaki'' and ''Prosecco''.

Discography

Albums

* ''Revier Songs'' (EP, 2012) * ''Wer zerscht s’Meer gsehd'' (2012) * ''Adam + Eva'' (2015) * ''Oh Boy'' (2018) * ''Live im Hallenstadion'' (2020)

Singles

* ''24 Bilder'' (2011) * ''Tanze tanze'' (2012) * ''Gymnastique'' (2015) * ''Kawasaki'' (2017) * ''Besch ready für die Liebi vo mer?'' (2019) * ''Gsehnd üs im Sommer'' (2020) * ''Nur 1 Minute'' (2020) * ''Prosecco'' (2021) * ''Nimm Mech I Arm'' (2021)

Awards

* 2013:

Best Talent National * 2017:

Best Live Act * 2020:

Best Live Act

References

{{reflist Swiss pop rock music groups