Christina Maria Rieder, known professionally by their stage name Rykka, is a Swiss-Canadian singer. Born in Vancouver, they took up guitar lessons at age 15 and their music has been featured in many Canadian TV series. In 2012, they released their first album and in 2013, they won the Peak Performance Project, a music competition in British Columbia.
They divide their time between Vancouver and Zurich.
They represented Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm with the song The Last of Our Kind, but was unable to advance from the second semifinal. They released a new album called Beatitudes in November of that year.
Some time after Eurovision, Rykka came out as non-binary.
Trivia[]
- Rykka is the third Canadian-born singer to represent Switzerland at Eurovision, following Celine Dion and Annie Cotton.
- She is also the first of the three to sing in English, as Celine and Annie before her both sung in French.