Florian C. Roth Jessica Wezel Grady Lee Pete Borel Max Kämmerling Julian Scenogrady Charlie Weibel
Past members
Ana Jukic Mateo Chacon-Pino
The Black Barons is a Swiss country and folk band. The band was founded in 2007 by Florian C. Roth. Two of the band's members, Roth and Jessica Wezel, also perform as a duo called Flo & Jessie.
Biography
The Black Barons
The band was formed in 2007 by Swiss lawyer Florian C. Roth.[1][2][3] They perform country western music and folk music and are based in Zürich.[4] They have headlined at the Trucker & Country Music Festival in Interlaken and at the Gstaader Nachtschicht[5][6] They have also performed multiple times at the Schützenhaus Albisgütli International Country Music Festival in Zürich, Country Night Gstaad, and the Festival da Jazz St. Mortiz.[2][7][8]
The band was originally made up of Roth, Mateo Chacon-Pino, Ana Jukic, Max Kämmerling, and Julian Szenogrady.[12][13] Jukic and Chacon-Pino later left the band. Pete Borel, Grady Lee, and Charlie Weibel later joined the band.[14] In 2018, Jessica Wezel joined the band and began performing with Roth as their own duo, accompanied by the band.
Their debut album, Rolling Skies, was released in 2013.[15]
Flo & Jessie is a Swiss country music duo composed of Florian Roth and Jessica Wezel. Their debut album, I've Gone My Way, was released on 4 April 2020.
The duo members are Florian Roth, a lawyer, and Jessica Wezel, a medical insurance specialist, both from Zürich.[2] Wezel grew up singing in a gospel choir and later sang as a street performer and club performer in Ireland, where she was taking a language course, going on a pub tour.[2] They met on a country music cruise in the Mediterranean in 2018 and decided to form a country music group together.[2]
Their debut album, an extended play with six songs titled I've Gone My Way, was released on 4 April 2020. The album was recorded in collaboration with The Black Barons.[2]
^Hefti, Rahel (30 April 2012). "Ein Hauch von Nashville"(PDF). Hoefner Volksblatt und Marchanzeiger (in German). Switzerland. p. 9. Retrieved 4 April 2020.