Wow! Work and Travel in Australia. Many millennials still talk enthusiastically and quite unironically about the stay abroad after graduation, which they spent in the Australian outback instead of in the German suburban wasteland. Susanna Sallinger, 26, also talks about it, but with a good dose of self-mockery. Australia has a special meaning for her music. It was there in Melbourne, just over 16,000 kilometers from her hometown of Munich, that Susanna dared to sing in front of an audience for the first time. Today she does under the stage name Sunny Acc’s Music.
It’s been seven years now. Always there: Susanna’s acoustic guitar. “What others have in sweets or cigarettes” is her guitar, says the singer-songwriter. Back then, in Melbourne, she mainly made street music with her guitar. “Melbourne is known for street art,” says Susanna. Back in her hometown of Munich, she only sporadically stands on street corners and sings to passers-by. Not because she wouldn’t enjoy it anymore, nor because it wasn’t worth it. “Doing street music isn’t that easy in Munich because the rules are so strict,” she says. “You can’t play with an amplifier in the city center, for example. And I don’t have such a loud voice that I could drown out Kaufingerstrasse.”
Here Susanna concentrates more on her own music, on being able to play on small stages, in bars, at weddings. Her style is not always easy to describe. Sometimes it’s more indie, sometimes more folk or country. The acoustic guitar and Susanna’s clear, calm and gentle voice run through all of her music.
“In Australia, people understood me when I played my English-language music,” says Susanna. Back in Germany, however, she noticed: “People don’t understand what I’m saying. But I want to tell something, reach people, touch them. That’s why I’m finding my way into German music,” she says.
Sunny Acc’s
- Occupation: Susanna Sallinger