Band
The band Overcross was founded by Michel Zuppiger (Shell), Jannis Metaxas (Jay) and Fabian Wyss (Fab) on the 9th August 2009.
They have known each other from childhood on. Each one of them has been influenced by different music genres; Shell (Rock), Jay (Hip Hop) and Fab (Rock & Classical). For a long time now, they’ve all had the dream of playing in a band.
When Jay and Shell moved in together at the age of 20, they’ve started jamming on the guitar together. As Fab joined the steadily growing number of jam sessions, they decided to form a band.
With the foundation of the band, each one of them contributed elements of his preferred music genres to the song writing. That is why they picked Overcross as their band’s name (crossover of music genres). A couple of weeks later, they had already written several songs, so they started recording them in a small bedroom studio. However, they could not overlook the fact that they were lacking an outstanding voice.
This leads us to our fourth band member Petz Kestenholz (Petz). Shell and Jay have known Petz from school where they were attending music classes together. With her stunning voice and great personality, they never even thought about not asking her to join. And so they did ask her after a couple of rehearsals and she gladly accepted. About three months after the foundation, Overcross was finally complete.