"Christian Zehnder was born in Zurich in 1961 and now lives and works in Basle. He began his musical career by studying guitar but then turned to singing, studying with baritone singer Rapael Laback among others, and graduated with a diploma as a voice instructor. He went on to study overtone singing with Tokne Nonaka and Alfred Wolfsohn’s body-voice techniques with Daniel Prieto. He has also spent many years researching the non-verbal communication of the human voice and the yodel as communication form.