Education
After a yearlong stay in America, she graduated from high-school and moved to Munich to study music, dance, and acting.
After a yearlong stay in America, she graduated from high-school and moved to Munich to study music, dance, and acting.
Mia Aegerter is a Swiss musician, model, and stage and film actor. Childhood and Young She started working as a model and took part in many talent competitions. She also succeeded in the famous "Bravo Girl - Model Contest,“ in Germany.
At fifteen, she began to write her own songs.
After a short time, Aegerter was discovered by a talent scout and moved to Berlin, Germany. Musical and Film At the beginning of 2003, Aegerter had a breakthrough in the national music scene.
Shortly after, Aegerter played the role of “Laura Moretti” in the film Achtung, fertig, Charlie, which came in second on the list of the most successful Swiss movies ever made (with over 560"000 entries at the box office as of 2011. Behind Rolf Lyssy"s classic "Schweizermacher" of 1978 with over 940"000 tickets sold).
The film was also released in France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the United States of America, where it was renamed, Ready, Steady, Charlie!.
Aegerter also composed and sang the film’s title song, "Hie u Jetzt," which became a hit in Switzerland, reaching the Top 5 of the Swiss single charts. With her debut album, So wie I bi / The way I am, released in 2004, Aegerter proved that she is not only an excellent dialect singer, but very expressive with English lyrics. With the song, "Alive," she took part in the German selection to the "Grand Prix d"Eurovision".
"Alive" was her fourth single release and got into the Swiss and German charts.
In January 2005, the Album So wie I bi / The way I am went gold in Switzerland. In the same year, Aegerter played the female lead in the Swiss film, Leben auf Kr, which also played in France and Italy.
She also hosted the weekly youth magazine, Bravo television, for one year. Bravo television was also broadcast in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
After many unplugged gigs in 2004-2005, she and her rock band, were a supporting-act of Ronan Keating’s German Tour, which allowed them to perform on the biggest stages in the country.
Aegerter also had her own Club Tour in Switzerland and played in various open-air festivals. Besides acting in various plays and movies in Switzerland and Germany, Aegerter’s main passion remains the music and the songwriting. Her lyrics have a healthy portion of provocative irony.
She takes the listeners on a journey through her thoughts and beliefs.
She extended her writing, by working for three years, as a columnist for the Neue Luzerner Zeitung, a renowned daily Swiss newspaper.
Her parents were members of a band, which drew Aegerter to the stage at an early age.