Jan had the idea for such a track in the studio in Berlin with Kilian & Jo and tinkered with it for a few days. A cryptic and slightly dadaistic text that has a very clear message despite its confusing structure. We fill up until everything is completely empty and overlook the fact that everything was already there before we didn't get our fill.

An allusion to 1999 and a party song that celebrates the last and greatest lightness of being at the moment of the apocalypse, and thus possibly saves the world. The lyrics were there and Jan was clear. It's time for the legend Toni-L. ‘I thought it would be such a blast if someone rapped on this song like Toni-L, but A nobody does that anymore and B nobody could ever really do it like him.’ So I messaged him on Insta, sent him the song and he replied straight away.’

The two had also crossed paths in the basements of early hip hop but never exchanged ideas. Toni came to one of Jan's concerts on his big tour of Germany a few weeks later and they spoke at length for the first time backstage. Afterwards they went into the studio in Berlin and the song was then produced in Switzerland by Jan and Massimo Buonanno and also mixed by Massimo. A homage and a celebration of oldskool and the explosive marriage of rap, funk and soul. The soul man and the funk joker on one track!

Life is where time flies. Seconds become hours when the world fades out. An island of two hearts is created. This song in English reminds of UK Garage and 2Step but in German. Prooduced with Benjamin Alasu (ESC winning Prooducer “The Code” Nemo) and written with Revelle, a song was created that only jan SEVEN dettwyler can sing. A feeling taken directly from life and sung with so much soul and feeling that you hope the whole summer only has hours like this. Such 3 hours.

"If the light is missing in your life, start shining yourself. Be the helper you need instead of waiting for heroes. You should shine..." The idiosyncratic lyricist and singer jan SEVEN dettwyler has proven time and again that he writes the best lyrics in his darkest hours. His first songs would not have been written in 2002 if he had not sought solace in a pen to deal with a break-up. "Lisa" was written during a crisis, "City Of Gold" when his best friend died and "I don`t give up" when his son had health problems. With the very personal song LEUCHTEN, he is now once again using music to draw himself back into the light. Getting up and shining himself to attract the beauty in life again is the wonderful essence of this self-therapy.

The third pre-release "Eine Nacht" from the album "Schwarz auf Grün" (Black on Green) for jan SEVEN dettwyler's tour of the same name is characterized by the wonderfully soulful voice and gives a deep insight into the artist's soul. Since he began writing German lyrics in 2019, this one is probably more direct and taken from life than ever before. This song asks for warmth and closeness, because people want to feel safe and secure. "I don't feel alone with you, I promise nothing else will happen" shows the simple honesty without a declaration of intent behind it. Simply a feeling that runs deep. Musically, a warm, tear-wet floor is laid under your feet and the heartbeat in the form of a clear and steady beat leads you through the song. This creates space for the voice and the gospel choirs, which Jan sings himself and which give the song greatness and longing. "The head breathes out, the soul breathes in. May I stay here today. Just for one night."

Lyrics and melody by jan SEVEN dettwyler, produced together with Beni Mühlethaler and mixed by John van Nest in L.A. The accompanying video is once again by director Marco Grob. This is "Eine Nacht", a song that sounds like it's from Philadelphia, but sung with German lyrics as incredibly soulful as only jan SEVEN dettwyler can.

This is the first English release by jan SEVEN dettwyler since 2018 and it took a lot of effort. Nothing Compares 2 U by Prince, who also wrote the song, was released in 1984. It wasn't until 1990 in the version by Sinéad O'Connor that the song became a global hit. Now there is a wonderful orchestral version by Jan SEVEN Dettwyler. "It's a tribute to my great role model, to love and to the pain that turns every tear into music." - jan SEVEN dettwyler

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"There are enough songs that glorify love and put it on a gilded pedestal. But everyday life is different and only then can you see whether you can love unconditionally. It's the little things or even the slightly strange tics and characteristics of the person you're with that make the difference. If you can accept and embrace them, then that is the ultimate proof of genuine affection and love. If even the little things get on your nerves, then you're not ready for the real challenges."

Both jan SEVEN dettwyler and Johannes Oerding have been on the road for 20 years, in the studio or on tour. Both are perfectionists, singers of the old school and also stand for real handmade music live. Both are often described as ambitious and are welcome and respected in all genres and musical corners. It's no wonder that both have accompanied "Sing meinen Song" once as guests and four times as hosts, because there aren't many musicians of this caliber in the German-speaking world. They have been talking about doing a song together for almost 10 years. Now the right song has happened and they press stop.

7 years of "Sing Mein Song" are coming to an end. So many memories and stories in my heart. In 2016 I was a guest in Germany and now in 2023 I will host "Sing meinen Song - Das Schweizer Tauschkonzert" for the 4th time. "Sing Mein Song" changed my life and I was able to experience the most beautiful game in the world 5 times. So now my last season starts and before it starts next week I would like to look back with you. "Go make memories" with excerpts from all seasons. I would like to thank the whole team, the band, you out there for your loyalty and my biggest thanks go to the 24 artists I was able to invite. You are "Sing Mein Song". You have laid your songs, stories, hearts, wounds and tears on this sofa and this carpet. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and I will never forget it all.

With "Ich Feiers Dich zu Lieben" SEVEN releases another track from his anniversary album "Ich Bin Mir Sicher! For the artist it was always clear that this song especially needs his attention again, because somehow something has always been missing: another voice - this song is made for a duet! At the beginning of this year, SEVEN discovered a voice online and cut a duet from it for TikTok. It was the voice of Chiara Castelli. By chance, she is also from Lucerne, so the contact is quickly established, although they have never met before. She is also not an unknown musical leaf, she has participated in the SRF show "Kampf der Chöre" (2010) and in "The Voice Kids" (2014) and in the meantime she has been able to build up a large fan community on social media by successfully covering well-known songs - her fans include Rita Ora and James Arthur - and publishing her own songs. The paths of Seven and Chiara Castelli have crossed only now, but so right! This song is now finally rounded and coherent and Seven has invited Chiara directly on his upcoming tour in the fall across Germany.

Just over a year ago, SEVEN opened the gates to a new world with his first own German release - the half album "Brandneu" and the first single "Seele", which was not yet known from him. This journey dangerously close to himself has continued in recent months and the German pen has been held on to. However, this was not a deliberate and consistent continuation of a path he had taken, but rather topics that stir the thoroughbred musician and force him to sing them are currently all in German. SEVEN has been writing songs for 30 years, following all the rules and in all forms.

As a harbinger of his 12th studio album "ICH BIN MIR SICHER", SEVEN starts the 20th year of his active artistic career with a special song: "ASCHE IM WIND" is about the moment when he understood that he already had everything really important things in his life.

«I was never satisfied, I am impatient and also insatiable. I always want more, and even better, and all over again. However, when I looked into my son's eyes, I noticed how empty and small all things are. For the first time I didn't care if someone else wins. "

After 298 published songs, 11 studio albums, 4 live albums, 7x Gold Awards, a total of well over 1 million tickets sold, SEVEN cannot wait for the anniversary year 2022!

At the turn of the year, it's time to say thank you. So I found my very own way to say thank you with Credibil from Frankfurt. I wrote this text in these absolutely crazy times and then recorded and produced it in the studio at Kilian&Jo in Berlin. Credibil contributed an incredible part. "Danke Danke Dafür" is the start of my anniversary year 20 years Seven and thank you is all I can say.

With the song "Zu Zweit" appears a beautiful duet, which lays like a musical wool blanket warmly around the heart. We can also use it well when it is foggy and cold outside and the days are noticeably short. Then the Christmas season is usually not far away and at SEVEN's home his wife's X-mas playlist runs on continuous loop from mid-November onwards - because the whole family loves Christmas! Gospel music is the origin of everything we call Soul today and that's probably why Christmas and Soul music are so closely connected. Both Cassandra and SEVEN are children of soul music and have a lot of common influences. So it's not surprising that Cassandra also loves Christmas and while SEVEN was writing this song, he immediately thought of her and picked up the phone to ask if she would like to write the second verse and sing it right away. Now they sing "Zu Zweit" together.

SEVEN follows up with the next single and appeals to tolerance and celebrates all those people who dare to be different. With Lasst Uns Anders Sein the artist invites you to another insight into his upcoming album and above all he leaves a gap to himself open. If you look into it, you quickly realize, it's about a very personally experienced topic in terms of content. Because SEVEN heard the phrase "You're different" all his life and in his youth this comment was actually always meant negatively. If you don't fit into the average, then you stand out and that's not right. To go with the flow and not be complicated is decent. Everything else is conceited and tedious, resulting in "Why can't you just be like everyone else"? At the age of 13 SEVEN was also given the stamp "stupid & difficult" and based on a certain "conspicuousness" school psychologists and doctors wanted to prescribe him medication and thus keep him quiet. He refused and had to leave school. Even then, the teenager sensed an absolute contradiction in this: we all have to be the same, but in the real world we suddenly need pioneers, visionaries and creative minds who think differently? We all have ideas, feelings, dreams and passion, but if we really listen to ourselves and want to follow them, we only get headwind and obstacles in the way. SEVEN believes that "being different" is the best thing that can happen to you. How you live, what you love and who and how you love should simply be you. Be proud and embrace it, stand up for yourself and do not hide and hold the poster with the inscription Lasst Uns Anders Sein (Let Us Be Different) with both hands stretched and proud upwards.

"Unser kleines Wunder" addresses the feeling of never being alone, no matter where you are in the world. This connection gives safety, strength, security, meaning and certainty and never lets you lose the ground under your feet. It is a connection to a person - no matter if it is a partner, a best friend, a father or a sister - that you feel and the kilometers of distance that might lie in between simply disappear because you are always close. That's a miracle and that's magical.

A graceful and warm duet about a sad event - a touching live song. The Soulmate Tour 2019 took Seven across Germany and Switzerland. Every night he shared the stage with a different guest and magical moments and combinations were created. Like this duet with Laith Al-Deen and he says himself about the song: It always makes me very proud when I can become part of stories, of people who have touched. So deeply touched that it has become a song. And the story is not forgotten, because it is simply carried on through a song, for example, and then you know that it was a special moment. That is a great joy for me - thank you very much.

"And all the time I keep hearing about persevering and running on, working to buy groceries and getting drunk when in doubt. Zero perspective with endless options, I'm out man, I'm gone, I have to repeat myself at last." - CURSE
The hamster wheel is spinning and everyone knows how quickly you can lose yourself and suddenly there seems to be no way out. This song is for everyone who is on the brink and can only see one solution. But there is always more than one way and one of them leads back to you.
"There is no one who could capture this theme and tell of these wounds better than CURSE. It has been one of my favorites for over 20 years. He inspires and accompanies me to this day and to be able to illuminate this edge of life with him is a gift. I hope we can show everyone openly and honestly that we know this cliff and that the step towards ourselves is the right one." - SEVEN

"You have to understand yourself well". With this statement and my good friend Flo Mega this song was created. We met 5 years ago at festivals in Germany and now finally made a track. The song comes from my pen and the lyrics we wrote together. The song was produced and created in Berlin with Kilian&Jo.

With this text in his book Seven went to Kilian&Jo in Berlin. In this familiar kitchen of the producer duo where he already produced his last songs like "Immer Noch" and "Seele", this track was created in just one night. The content is about the situation that when you are completely flashed by another person, then you completely lose control over almost everything and no matter how deliberate you are otherwise, you become a shy boy again. Seven gets Moses Pelham as reinforcement and emerged apt and funny images that visualize this situation and that is accompanied by a loose-light sound carpet that revives the last summer feelings again. This is the first time where the two work together - fits perfectly.

He’s gone and done it again. At first glance, BRANDNEU appears to represent a huge step: For the first time in his international career spanning 17 years, the Swiss “soul train” is releasing his own German-language songs for the first time. The “half-album”, which features five new songs plus four bonus tracks, appears to be a novelty, but it’s actually just what SEVEN has always been doing – reinventing himself, challenging himself. And tentatively, but fearlessly, going to where it hurts. In this case, dangerously close to himself.  It would have made sense for this record to be released three years ago – BRANDNEU simply represents the urge of a musician who has never erred on the side of caution, and who is almost pathologically curious. It was on his “Soulmate” tour, where he played these songs live and received standing ovations every night, that he realized he was on to something – nevertheless, BRANDNEU is unadulterated egotism. “I am not just going to stay stuck in a groove – I’m liberating myself from the box in which many people may think I belong. But I have never been so close to my true self as I am now.”

When passion meets determination, anything is possible. A real fire deserves something to be done for it. The greater the talent and the love for the cause, the more one should invest. Most of the time, we slow ourselves down when we don't dare to just do something. To become better, to develop and to achieve more out of true passion is not arrogant and restless, but this is the hunger of dreams. This hunger drives us to shine, to change or simply to be fulfilled. The stars in the sky are not there just to illuminate, but to reach for. Am I talking about money or success in numbers? No, I'm talking about that feeling and the drive to make my music even better. To finally be able to work with this orchestra, to plan and rehearse the concert at home down to the last detail, so that it still turns out differently on stage. This energy, which is released when you dedicate yourself and give everything you have, is pure satisfaction. But if you want something to happen... For that you have to do something. Because only the ambition and the will bring you beyond the limits into the zone in which everything is possible.

"There is a kind of ranking when it comes to love songs. Clearly at #1 is the theme: 'It's over' and at #2 comes: 'I met someone there'. I've wanted to write a song about what happens in between for a long time. About how you can still have a crush after ten years of marriage - if you manage to make a best friend and continue to find each other hot in the process. It's not a given, especially when you have kids and a weird job like I do - but if it works, maybe it's forever." This atypical declaration of love for his "most important homie" sounds as honest and casual in German as anything on BRANDNEU: "Wir sind ein Team wie Batman und Robin es sind. Bonnie and Clyde wär’n gerne wie wir, doch mussten kaptitulier’n. Oft werd’ ich zum Hulk, bin gepisst auf die Welt – doch du beschützt mich vor mir selbst."

It all started with "Seele", the first single from the album "Brandneu". "The song is the why, the explanation. I face the nakedness that singing German means to me. Behind the English language I could hide, there was always a certain distance. German lyrics are more difficult because the language is more precise and everyone understands every detail immediately. I maintain that in German you have to find metaphors and thus often have one foot in pathos. That the tightrope walk has succeeded is already proven by the first lines of "Seele" - even before the song takes away all our worries with velvety groove and usual virtuoso vocals, SEVEN gets personal: "Wenn man mal annimmt, dass alle Seelen verwandt sind, sind wir im tiefsten Inneren ein Spiegel. Sieh mich an: Erkennst Du Dich wieder?"

The promising combo Nativ, Pablo Nouvelle and Seven release the joint track "Aber Wohi?". In Swiss German, they ponder the colder days of the year, fathom the path of a homeless person and skillfully fuse soul with pop and electronic influences. Melancholic, the sound carpet carries the voices of Nativ and Seven, and the question remains until the end: Aber Wohi?

After a couple of intense concert years for SEVEN & Band, the immortalization follows: 7/7 Live Experience contains 7 songs with the 7-piece band live from the Mühle Hunziken in March 2018 as well as 7 songs in duo with Rose Ann Dimalanta at the Blue Balls Festival in July 2018. At the latter, Seven's brother Micha was also a guest, who sang his way into the hearts of the audience with the duet "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me". Whether funk, heartwarming ballad or pure soul - everything can be found on this live double album. A beautiful contemporary document that captures the musical adventures of the soul singer and his excellent band.

Modern R'n'B Smash was written by Seven in Switzerland, produced and mixed in Sweden and mastered in the UK. A tribute to attitude and attitude - because all you need is attitude. Shoulders back, look straight ahead and the summer is yours!

The album title speaks for itself: 4COLORS offers four different colors - four genres and four completely unique moods. It is SEVEN's tenth work, which was produced in 127 days in different studios with an outstanding team from London, Los Angeles and Switzerland. The result is four self-contained musical worlds that take the listener on a journey through the musical universe of the soul singer.

After 9 studio albums, almost 1000 concerts, chart hits and the opening of the Sundance Festival as the first European ever, the Swiss star SEVEN finally releases a compilation of his most important songs with "BEST OF 2002 - 2016". In addition to SEVEN's greatest hits and his interpretations from "Sing meinen Song", tracks with idols like Commissioner Gordon (Lauryn Hill, Amy Winehouse) and James Poyser (Erykah Badu, The Roots) as well as features from Talib Kweli and Stefanie Heinzmann can be found on the album "BEST OF 2002 - 2016". 

After four seconds from the title track the path is clear. Seven goes "BACK" to his roots, to his idols - to the funk and soul he loves unconditionally. This record has no questions, is absolute self-evidence in perfection, totally unconventional and so unashamedly uncompromising. "This record is me, I am this record. Anyone who doesn't like it, doesn't like me." The soul singer spread out his entire record collection on the floor and picked out the songs he still adores just as much as he did on day one. "I wanted to know why. A song that stays with me forever has to have at least one of these three superpowers: It makes me cry, it makes me dance, or it makes me go to the bedroom." Those three qualities were exactly the premise for this album.

This album closes a circle - because the compositions of the predecessor "The Art Is King" were originally written on the piano. Together with jazz pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck, Seven wrote all the songs in New York using only piano and voice. This extremely personal atmosphere is deliberately celebrated again on "The Art Is Piano".

"The Art Is King" is less painted than before. It speaks out more, dares to take an edge and allows for more darkness. "The Art Is King" is a very important album in my career and "The Art Is King" is an essential insight. I have written this on my banner in a big way so that I never forget it.

All the hits of the last ten years on a newly recorded unplugged album: contrabass, cello, piano, acoustic guitar and their friends are the main actors. Raw, honest, reduced and as mature as you have never heard Seven before.

Seven's fifth studio album has sold over 25,000 copies to date. An edgy, international, modern and intelligent pop-soul album on which the musician perfects his sound. The big hit succeeds among others with the songs "Go Slow", "I Know", "Keep Ur Head Up" and the Top 20 hit "Lisa".

The pregnancy of this record lasted exactly nine months. Seven traveled alone through the States during this time - from idol to idol, from studio to studio. The result is a brilliant US soul album that sold over 25,000 copies. The team of D'Angelo (Carvin&Ivan), the producer of Erykah Badu (James Poyser), the guitarist of Prince (Mike Scott), Sheila E., Larry Gold and Commissioner Gorden, the producer of Lauryn Hill - they all worked with Seven on "Home". The result is a milestone.

The name says it all: this album is a sensual and catchy diary of love. With his ten musicians, Seven recorded the work himself in the old school and expanded his band with a horn section, which wraps the songs in the dress of classic soul. With the song "Sign" he also manages a small miracle on the radio.

If you're looking for crisp, timely R'n'B and soul that's funk-laden and earthy, you'll find it here. The constant of the album is Seven's soulful, clear voice and his heart and soul. With the song "Make U Happy", the 26-year-old achieves airplay on all relevant Swiss radio stations for the first time.