The expert jury nominated two musicians with close ties to Baden for the nationally important award. This is awarded annually to people or institutions in Switzerland who have made outstanding contributions to the blues scene as artists or sponsors.
Pata Pata was danced on Saturday in the Engelscheune, where the famous innkeeper and freedom fighter Josef Weißhaar once kept the horses. Justina Lee Brown opened a top-class concert series with a brilliant concert, which Helena Günther is offering in her newly opened Café-Bar Baileyni.
Numerous visitors quickly filled the restaurant and realized that the amiable Justina has music and rhythm in her blood. The Blues Queen also expressed visual elegance in the black mini shiny overalls, fishnet stockings and high heels. In her performance, every movement fit the beat and she quickly created a great atmosphere. Every visitor somehow kept up with the beat, even the nimble service staff danced and rocked behind the counter to the rhythms of funk, soul and blues.
“No Woman no Cry” or “The Lion sleeps tonight” were just a few of the numerous musical highlights. With “Pata Pata” the African joie de vivre spilled over onto the “pale faces”, who were completely over the moon. “She has a tsunami voice,” shouted a compatriot of the singer into the microphone, who came from Zurich and gave a spontaneous singing performance himself. “That’s my music, I’ve never heard anything better in Lottstetten,” enthused Fredi Nussbaum from Lottstetten.
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Award-winning Justina Lee Brown is set to release her new album LOST CHILD with a live concert at Nordportal Baden, Switzerland on 28 September this year.
For the past three years, Justina and her band have been on the road to present their album BLACK & WHITE FEELING. Now they’re ready to kick off their upcoming tour with the CD release party of the new album LOST CHILD.
Justina Lee Brown (born Justina Ogunlolu) is an award-winning Nigerian Afro, Funk, Soul and Blues artist, songwriter and entertainer.
As a child, she struggled to survive on the streets of Lagos with her teenage mother. Music gave her the strength to overcome poverty.
She rose to fame in Africa and the young pop star won the ‘WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT AWARD’ in London as ‘BEST AFRICAN VOICE’ in 2009, before touring Europe and Nigeria for years with various projects, leaving the audience speechless but immensely happy and euphoric with her powerful voice and energetic show.
Together with her great band, Justina Lee Brown won the Swiss Blues Challenge in 2019, made it to the semi-finals of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, USA in 2020 and won the second place for Switzerland at the 2022 European Blues Challenge in Malmö, Sweden.
She was also nominated for the the 2022 Swiss Blues Awards and finally was the opening act with her band for ZUCCHERO at the Sierre Blues Festival the same year.
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The 9th final of the Swiss Blues Challenge took place for the 5th time as part of the Summerblues Festival in Basel, on June 28, 2019.
The winner of the Swiss Blues Challenge 2019 is Justina Lee Brown and her band ( Nic Niedermann, Angelo Signore, Thom Wettstein und Robert Mark).
The singer and songwriter from Nigeria, who has now lived in Switzerland for several years, won her place among the 3 other finalists, who also deserve congratulations: David Minster, Steve Hophead and Enrique Parra & Max Dega Band.
Justina Lee Brown and her group will represent Switzerland at the European Blues Challenge which will take place in Malmö, Sweden on June 3 and 4, 2022, and if they wish at the International Blues Challenge , in Memphis from January 28 to February 1, 2020.
We extend our sincere thanks to the members of the Jury under the direction of Rolf Winter: Robert Amsler, Martine Henriod, Dylan Karlen, Thomas Slavicek and Tanja Wirz.
And thank you also to the whole team of the Summerblues Festival , who every year organize the Swiss Blues Challenge in a perfect way!
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From today there’s something on your ears. Today and tomorrow, blues greats will be performing at the “Blues im Madlen” festival in the Madlen cinema theater. There are still tickets!
The time has come. Today, Friday, and tomorrow, Saturday, the bass guitars are pounding again in the Madlen cinema theater, the drums set the rhythm, the guitars howl and great voices can be heard. Blues is hip. And all friends of this down-to-earth music genre will make a pilgrimage to Madlen in Heerbrugg to attend the Blues im Madlen festival .
First act tonight will be Justina Lee Brown and Band. A fantastic artist and a power singer.
Justina Lee Brown faced the hard fight for survival as a street child in Lagos/Nigeria and made it onto the stages of Europe with her extraordinary voice. As a performer a true power house, as a musician a mercilessly talented singer with a phenomenal voice! Their concerts leave no one untouched. You have to experience their explosive performances with their Afro-funky soul!
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Cristina Elena Helfer from the Bluesfestival Baden marketing team had the opportunity to have an exciting conversation with Justina Lee Brown for you . But we would like to start this article with a little reference to one of our location partners, the ClubJoy in Baden.
Even if the jam session of the blues festival weren’t taking place there – by the way, that’s always on Thursday during the festival week – there is also a direct connection to Justina Lee Brown at this location.
Nic Niedermann and his band “Rotosphere” have been there since the first festival. They were probably the most flexible and largest band of the festival because they were the hosts for the jam sessions. At first they performed with their/our guests in the casino and heated it up so much that a fire broke out in the second year, the casino had to be cleared – and Montreux says hello…
For a few years now, the jam sessions have been at home at Joy. Nic Niedermann also organizes concerts in different styles every Thursday throughout the year. And this is where Justina Lee Brown met Nic – and so the circle closes again on the topic of today’s contribution to the virtual Blues Festival Baden 2020.
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