Nationality Swiss and German Genre Pop | Website Official website | |
Occupation Film composer and musician Similar Paul Riniker, Sophie Hunger, Jörg Schneider, Ralph Metzner, Jimi Hendrix |
Marcel Vaid (born 1967 in Erlangen) is a Swiss-German composer of music for television and film.
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Life and career

Born in Erlangen, Germany, Marcel Vaid's father originates from India. He studied guitar at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Zürich. Besides his work as a composer and music producer for theatre, he composes and produces film music for fiction and documentary films. Vaid is also the head of the electro-acoustic experimental collective Superterz. Among others, he collaborated with Sophie Hunger, Nils Petter Molvær, Fredi Murer, Lauren Newton, Marianne Schroeder and Damo Suzuki.

Vaid produces music mainly for German-language films, but also for international productions, among them Wake Up Running: A Story of Losers. Feature-length films he served as a composer for include the 2015 documentary Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel (The Day the Sun Fel) by the Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the 2015 Swiss comedy Usfahrt Oerlike starring Jörg Schneider and Mathias Gnädinger, the 2008 Swiss-Austrian-German comedy Tandoori Love, and the 2004 Swiss television film Das Paar im Kahn.
Awards

Songs
Letters
Emil Behind the Courtain
Die Standesbeamtin: Es tut ihr leidSchonholzer - M: Die Standesbeamtin · 2009