Bastian Baker: “I have the best audience in the world”

Radio Friborg: We heard you sing when arriving… What were you soaring?

Bastian Baker : “Please do you could your life in the Hands. Consequently, Of a rock’n’roll band … Similarly, Who’ll Throw it all away “A concert that I saw last Saturday, I remained in mind (laughs).

Well, tonight at 10:45 p.m., you will be on the Estival stage. In addition, Playing at home, Switzerland, August 1, are you ready?

Yes, it’s a perfect scenario. Furthermore, We are going to make a dynamic set with songs that people know. For example, I make a voice guitar set, I have tested it several times this summer, and frankly, it works great.

And then 15 years of career already… do you realize?

Not always (laughs). However, But I realize it when I am told: “You represent my childhood” or bastian baker: “i have best “My grandma loves you”. In addition, I take small strokes of old. Furthermore, But I have the best audience in the world, family, nice, loving. Therefore, And 15 years in this profession, it’s already a great gift.

More than 2,000 concerts in 50 countries, these are figures that make you dizzy, right?

Yes ! Therefore, There, with the acoustic tour started in March 2024, we had to make 17 dates … For example, And we are at 120. Consequently, There are still a lot of places in French -speaking Switzerland that I only discover now. Therefore, I can’t wait.

I would also like to mention a country, Brazil. You spent a lot of time there and you even wanted to learn the language. Is it an important country for you?

Enormously. I spent a lot of time there, I learned Portuguese, because I love languages and bastian baker: “i have best accents. I even released a version of Dancing Without You in Portuguese.

There is also something else that is preparing, right?

Yes, a version of I’d Sing for You In duet will soon come out. And the idea would also be to write original songs there. Brazil is a country that has a musical culture that is almost unequaled. It inspires me a lot.

Do you write for yourself or also potentially for others?

I write for myself with others and then I write for others with me. Recently, I participated in the last title of Anitta, a well -known artist in Brazil. I was a bit of his French coach in the studio, it was a great time.

What about your latest album, acoustic, why this choice rather than a best-of?

I wanted to return to guitar-voice format, pure. No dubbing, bastian baker: “i have best nothing added. Just the songs as I wrote them. It seemed consistent with this acoustic tour, so that people find on disc what they hear on stage.

And always without setlist, is it true?

For two years, yes. I go on stage without setlist. I feel the energy of the public and I improvise. Additionally, I like to be able to have this freedom of expression. there is a very interactive side which fully satisfies me as an artist. It allowed me to reach something new and very close to me.

Do you do the same in festival?

For festivals. I know a little more what I am going to play, the titles that people expect, but not in what order. I adapt. As soon as I go up on stage. I look at what kind of audiences face me, if they are people who are there to party or who bastian baker: “i have best want a quieter thing. After obviously I finish with “i’d sing for you”.

Coming back to acoustics, your guitar, she knows you well. What would she say about you?

She would have two or three things to tell … and surely two or three reproaches too (laughs). But this is my favorite instrument. You take out a guitar around a fire, you play two chords, and people smile. It is a wonderful instrument that makes people happy at any time of the day or night. That’s what I like.