Born: April 28th, 1949, Bern (Switzerland)
Nationality: Swiss
In due course, the short impression below will be replaced with a more extensive career overview
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Reber studied the piano as well as psychology in Bern. With Susan Schell and Marc Dietrich, he founded the group Peter, Sue & Marc in 1970. Until the group was dissolved in 1981, it had many hit records in Switzerland. Reber composed most of the material for the group and, moreover, was its producer and main arranger. He also composed songs for other artists, such has Paola Del Medico and Nana Mouskouri. At the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, he won the Outstanding Composition Award. In the 1980s, Reber started writing and singing songs in the Swiss-German dialect (such as ‘Jeder bruucht sy Insel’ and ‘Ufem Wäg nach Alaska’), which turned out to be enormously successful with the Swiss audience, to the point that he gave 99 concerts in 99 days.
EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
Peter Reber composed no fewer than 6 songs in four different languages for the Eurovision Song Contest, of which he performed four himself with Peter, Sue & Marc: ‘Les illusions de nos vingt ans’ (1971), ‘Djambo, djambo’ (1976), ‘Trödler und co.’ (1979), and ‘Io senza te’ (1981). The 1976 and 1981 efforts both finished fourth, while ‘Io senza te’ also was an international hit and was covered in many languages. In 1977, Reber composed ‘Swiss Lady’ for the Pepe Lienhard Band, which finished 6th. As a conductor, he appeared in the 1980 contest in The Hague, leading the orchestra during the rendition of his self-penned song ‘Cinéma’, which was sung by Paola Del Medico and finished 4th.
EUROVISION INVOLVEMENT YEAR BY YEAR
Country – Switzerland
Song title – “Les illusions de nos vingt ans”
Rendition – Peter, Sue & Marc
(Peter Reber / Susan Schell / Marc Dietrich)
Lyrics – Maurice Tézé
Composition – Peter Reber
Studio arrangement – Hardy Schneiders
Live orchestration – Hardy Schneiders
Conductor – Hardy Schneiders
Score – 12th place (78 votes)
Country – Switzerland
Song title – “Djambo, Djambo”
Rendition – Peter, Sue & Marc
(Peter Reber / Susan Schell / Marc Dietrich)
Lyrics – Peter Reber
Composition – Peter Reber
Studio arrangement – Peter Reber / Rolf Zuckowski
Live orchestration – Peter Reber / Rolf Zuckowski
Conductor – Mario Robbiani
Score – 4th place (91 votes)
Country – Switzerland
Song title – "Swiss Lady"
Rendition – Pepe Lienhard Band
(Pepe Lienhard / Bill von Arx / Pino Gasparini / Christian von Hoffmann / Mostafa Kafa’i Azimi / Georges Walther)
Lyrics – Peter Reber
Composition – Peter Reber
Studio arrangement – Peter Reber / Rolf Zuckowski / Pepe Lienhard Band
Live orchestration – Peter Jacques
Conductor – Peter Jacques
Score – 6th place (71 votes)
Country – Switzerland
Song title – “Trödler und co.”
Rendition – Peter, Sue & Marc feat. Pfuri, Gorps & Kniri (Peter Reber / Susan Schell / Marc Dietrich / Pfuri Baldenweg / Anthony Fischer / Kniri Knaus)
Lyrics – Peter Reber
Composition – Peter Reber
Studio arrangement – Peter Reber / Rolf Zuckowski
Live orchestration – Peter Reber / Rolf Zuckowski
Conductor – Rolf Zuckowski
Score – 10th place (60 votes)
Country – Switzerland
Song title – “Cinéma”
Rendition – Paola Del Medico
Lyrics – Véronique Müller / Peter Reber
Composition – Peter Reber
Studio arrangement – Peter Reber
Live orchestration – Peter Reber
Conductor – Peter Reber
Score – 4th place (104 votes)
Country – Switzerland
Song title – “Io senza te”
Rendition – Peter, Sue & Marc
(Peter Reber / Susan Schell / Marc Dietrich)
Lyrics – Peter Reber / Nella Martinetti
Composition – Peter Reber
Studio arrangement – Peter Reber / Rolf Zuckowski
Live orchestration – Peter Reber / Rolf Zuckowski
Conductor – Rolf Zuckowski
Score – 4th place (121 votes)
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