Roland Zoss

Roland Zoss (born 1951 in Bern) living on the Aeolian Islands is a songwriter and novelist. Zoss studied anthropology and literature in Bern and Avignon.

Roland Zoss started his songwriter career in the Seventies in Switzerland and Germany. After travelling the world, performing in the "Troubadour" in L.A. he made success in Europe in 2004 with the album Härzland ('heartland') with Swiss German translations of the Leonard Cohen song First We Take Manhattan (Zersch näh me mer Manhattan), Halleluja and the Elvis Presley song In the Ghetto. He works with musicians and artists like Gottfried Helnwein, Michael Mish, Clare de Lune, Mauro Guiretti, Shirley Grimes. With Idan Raichel, Maggie Reilly, Marta Gomez he's producing a children's world music lullabies album "Slumberland".

Between 1999 and 2015 he released two dozen albums for kids, some in English, some Spanish, some French, becoming one of the most known Swiss German singers for children. His brand became the mouse Jimmy Flitz known in the multi awarded radio play serie about Swiss mythologies Jimmy Flitz ('a journey through Switzerland') in 2007. Starring his famous mouse on airlines. In 2010, the book Jimmy Flitz, die Schweizermaus ('the Swiss mouse') was released. Roland Zoss represents Switzerland in his native Swiss dialect on the world music children's CD European Playground with the song "Baerengeburi-Bubuland" and "Krokodil". Some songs are covered in English, French, Spanisch.

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