It's as if he'd spent his entire life doing nothing else: the rock songs on san mattia's third album Bhüet di Gott promptly set the pulse racing. And yet this is something quite new in the life of Bern-born San. He's got two rap albums in Swiss German under his belt, validation of his core competence indeed, but so much more lies dormant in this music maker, who actually started out in pop and rock. How does he manage to reconcile his wide-ranging interests and maintain empathy for his fellow human beings? Although still in his early 20s, he's already an old hand at producing – he released his first EP at just 9 years of age!
san mattia is a participant in this year's Mountain Academy.