Dust of Soul

Dust of Soul are POSITIVE MUSIC POWER—the inter­na­tion­al­ly renown music duo com­bin­ing a dis­tinc­tive­ly strong, unique voice and an engag­ing, pow­er­ful piano. Sask­ia Stäu­ble, known pro­fes­sion­al­ly as Dusty, is a Swiss singer, song­writer, and com­pos­er. She is the first singer and moti­va­tion­al speak­er in one com­bin­ing both art forms to have a pos­i­tive impact on the audi­ence through music. This unique abil­i­ty and her ener­gized per­for­mances on stage led Dust of Soul to estab­lish the new music genre POSITIVE MUSIC POWER. Michael Oder­matt, known pro­fes­sion­al­ly as MiKey, is a Swiss pianist, com­pos­er, and record pro­duc­er. He is known for his pure­ly intu­itive cre­ative expres­sion on the piano and his capa­bil­i­ties to visu­al­ly and musi­cal­ly pro­duce the essence of Dust of Soul. This results in the two artists being insep­a­ra­ble and col­lec­tive­ly unique.

Dust of Soul are known for their image rein­ven­tions and musi­cal ver­sa­til­i­ty. They per­form orig­i­nal songs that are writ­ten and musi­cal­ly com­posed by both artists. The music is about nev­er giv­ing up on a dream and strength­en­ing our inner pos­i­tiv­i­ty. But the musi­cians con­vince not only with their song­writ­ing in the tra­di­tion­al sense, but also with their tal­ent to intu­itive­ly cre­ate songs live on stage with the ener­gy of the audi­ence. This cre­ates a nev­er before expe­ri­enced close­ness between artist and audi­ence and is called «Music Soul­ing». With their ini­tia­tive music read­ing capa­bil­i­ties they have had sig­nif­i­cant pos­i­tive impact on health and mind­set of numer­ous peo­ple across industries.

Dust of Soul appeared in more than 160 con­cert per­for­mances on three con­ti­nents—in India, Oman, Tunisia, Europe (Ger­many, Italy, France, Liecht­en­stein, Switzer­land), and Turkey. With a grow­ing com­mu­ni­ty on social media, 220,000 fol­low­ers have led Dust of Soul 2013 to Tunisia, 2016 to the Sul­tanate of Oman into the Mid­dle East, and 2019 to India.

MTV India Unplugged pre­sent­ed Dust of Soul as the sen­sa­tion­al duo as open­ing act for Bol­ly­wood Super­star Ayush­mann Khur­rana in 2017. Anoth­er career high­light is the spe­cial per­for­mance for the King of Oman with their ded­i­cat­ed song «Col­or of Oman» on the Sultan’s birth­day in 2018 at the Amphithe­ater Mus­cat with 20 Omani musi­cians of the «Lujinia Omani Band».

In Novem­ber 2018, Dust of Soul received an award from the Gir­i­ja Baqer Art Foun­da­tion for their con­tri­bu­tion to the world of music.

Their 2019 debut stu­dio album Dust of Soul In Col­ors fea­tures columbian singer & per­cus­sion­ist Rodry-Go (famous for per­for­mances with Car­los San­tana, Anas­ta­sia, Deep Pur­ple) and New York influ­enced Rap­per Yaw Boso. Anoth­er high­ly suc­cess­ful fusion is their mix of Opera/Pop with Indi­an Rap and Beat­box­ing. The music video «Vic­to­ry» fea­tur­ing Hin­di Rap­per Mc Sid­du and The Dhar­avi Dream Project Mum­bai (a «Uni­ver­sal Music India» ini­tia­tive) filmed in the Dhar­avi (same loca­tion as Block­buster «Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire») gets more than half a mil­lion views.

2019 Dust of Soul reached the top 10 in the Switzer­land Nation­al Finals out of 28,000 artists at the largest Euro­pean music con­test «Tour Music Fest». The Berklee Col­lege of Music in Boston respond­ed to their per­for­mance with: «Out­stand­ing artis­tic fash­ion style. Excel­lent stage pres­ence. Extreme­ly descrip­tive. Very interactive.»

In 2020, Dust of Soul release «Rain­bow»—a heart-break­ing bal­lad, «Smile»—in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Indi­an Bol­ly­wood Actor Yash Choud­hary, and «Music Love»—fea­tur­ing Indi­an Rap­per Nox­ious D (famous from «Gul­ly Boy») & Roland India select­ed artist Indi­an Singer-Song­writer Ketan Mohite.

In 2021, Dust of Soul present their stu­dio album WONDERLAND. Fea­tured sin­gle releas­es are «Won­der­land» fea­tur­ing Cortés Kim­ber­ly—mas­tered by Andy Wal­ter at Abbey Road Stu­dios in Lon­don, and «Lost»—in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ed Sheeran’s Mas­ter­ing Engi­neer.

In 2022, Dust of Soul cel­e­brate 10 Years Dust of Soul with the show BACK TO THE FUTURE with inter­na­tion­al and nation­al sup­port­ing acts. 
On this occa­sion, the cul­ture mag­a­zine NAZAR pub­lish­es nation­wide on news­pa­per-stands a spe­cial edi­tion ded­i­cat­ed to 10 years of Dust of Soul and their vision for the future: Sus­tain­able Music—«Positive Music Power».

Dust of Soul have col­lab­o­rat­ed with brands such as MTV India, Star­bucks, Tup­per­ware, Yama­ha Music (through offi­cial reseller Tastenträume.ch), Radis­son Blu, and Grand Hyatt.

Dust of Soul has per­formed in pres­ti­gious venues such as Teatro Dal Verme Milan (Italy), City Amphithe­ater Qurum (Oman), Volk­shaus Zurich (Switzer­land), Opera Gal­le­ria (Oman), Scala Zofin­gen (Switzer­land), Grand Hyatt Mus­cat (Oman), Messe Zurich (Switzer­land), The Blue­bop Café (India), Mar­ti Istan­bul Hotel (Istan­bul), Acrop­oli­um de Carthage (Tunisia), Roland Artist Cen­tre (India), Lan­desmu­se­um Zurich (Switzer­land), Schloss Schwet­zin­gen (Ger­many), and Château Gütsch (Switzer­land).

Sask­ia Stäuble

Sask­ia Stäu­ble was born on 28th July in Basel, Switzer­land, and grew up in the cozy Frick­taler vil­lage Zeinin­gen on the countryside.