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‘Swiss Johnny Cash’ Florian Fox walks the line between Zurich and Nashville

Country musician Florian Fox
Country musician Florian Fox © Rob Lewis Photography

Sometimes changing names and continents is the best way to cope in a pandemic. For Swiss country music singer-songwriter Florian Fox, this meant moving to Nashville, Tennessee. He tells us why he's in the right place at the right time.

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Born in London, Thomas was a journalist at The Independent before moving to Bern in 2005. He speaks all three official Swiss languages and enjoys travelling the country and practising them, above all in pubs, restaurants and gelaterias.

Not content to mind her own business, Susan studied journalism in Boston so she’d have the perfect excuse to put herself in other people’s shoes and worlds. When not writing, she presents and produces podcasts and videos.

In this episode, host Susan Misicka talks to journalist Thomas Stephens, who’s been following the career of Florian Fox for a while now. We hear how the country musician has experienced a personal as well as musical rebirth, plus we get to listen to some of his songs.

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