Alicia Edelweiss is an Austro-British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and
performer.
In May 2025, Alicia Edelweiss released her new album FURIE on the Hamburg-based label
Glitterhouse Records, marking a significant step in her international career. Her previous album,
When I’m enlightened, everything will be better (2019), released by Medienmanufaktur Wien,
established her as “one of the most exciting and interesting musicians on the Austrian music scene”
(ORF, Austria's National TV).
Alicia’s musical journey began as a wandering street musician, traveling across Europe for two
years. A largely self-taught artist, she initially performed with her guitar before incorporating the
accordion, ukulele, and piano into her repertoire. In addition to her solo career, she was for several
years the accordionist in Voodoo Jürgens’ band.
Her discography includes the studio debut "When I’m enlightened, everything will be better" (2019),
the EP "I should have been overproduced "(2013), and the home-recorded lo-fi album "Mother, how
could you – A sick tragic comedy in 10 acts" (2016). For FURIE, the production process expanded to
include electronic elements, soundscapes, and field recordings, creating a richly textured sound.
Despite its experimental nature, the album retains the accessibility of pop music, balancing depth and openness.
Her music has led her to tour all around Europe and as far as Hong Kong and South Africa. She is
renowned for her captivating live performances, as Radio FM4’s Christian Pausch describes: “Alicia Edelweiss’ songs make us laugh, give us goosebumps, move us with their tenderness, and shatter the silence when the story calls for it. She continues to prove that she thrives on diversity.”
In 2022, she was awarded the "Hubert von Goisern Cultural Prize" for extraordinary talent and
perseverance.
Alicia is also active as an actress and performer. Since 2022, she has contributed to theatre and film, including roles in the play "Die Fürchterlichen Fünf" and the feature films "Happyland" (2025) and "Another Coin for the Merry-go-round", all of which she also contributed music for. In 2025 she collaborated on the music theatre project "Hamlet – Pop Opera" by Bernd Liepold-Mosser, which debuted in Villach, Austria.
Alicia Edelweiss’ music is characterized by authenticity, honesty, and intimacy, complemented by a
poetic embrace of the unconventional, artistic, and absurd. A self-described experimenter and perfectionist, she works meticulously and collaborates with carefully selected artists to craft arrangements that can extend up to 10 minutes on her albums. Her work resists any genre classification, existing at the intersection of many styles but rooted in pop at its core. Alicia
describes it as “experimental hysterical dreamy violent artsy indie chamber folk pop,” while others
have called it “chamber pop” or “experimental folk“.
Her music and albums are a synthesis of poetry, playfulness, wildness, humor, depth, and individuality. Together with her distinctive visual world, her costumes and her stage persona, they form what can only be described as a Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art.