Anna Buchegger is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Austrian music. Born in 1999 in

Abtenau in Salzburg’s Tennengau region, she found her way to music early on, starting with hammered dulcimer and piano and developing her own musical language from a young age. In 2021, she won the ORF casting show Starmania, where she impressed with her own composition and stage presence. Since then, she has consistently been working on a body of work that combines traditional elements from the Alpine region with contemporary pop and jazz language, while also raising questions of identity, origin, and expression.

With her debut album Windschatten from 2024, Buchegger created a kind of musical renegotiation of “home”, bringing together folk, pop, and jazz traditions in a way that is neither nostalgic nor backward-looking; the album drew attention with two Amadeus Award nominations, the Hubert von Goisern Culture Prize, and an ARTE TRACKS portrait, and marked the beginning of an intense engagement with sound, language, and cultural positioning.

In 2025, she continued this path with the album Soiz, whose title is far more than a play on words: it refers to salt as a metaphor for identity, memory, and ambivalence. The songs on this work blend dialect, pop aesthetics, experimental approaches, and a narrative directness that challenges listeners to confront the familiar without protection. Buchegger draws on Alpine traditions not to preserve them, but to bring them into dialogue with contemporary perspectives — musically, lyrically, and culturally. She is currently nominated for 3 Amadeus Awards.