Francine Jordi's Summer Vacation: 2011

Francine Jordi was the featured performer at the Swiss
Embassy's August 1st "Swiss Day" in Bangkok, Thailand

I can't believe we've gone the whole summer without an update on our favorite Swiss schlager chanteuse, the perky and ever cute, Francine Jordi.

While she didn't undertake a grueling multi-city marathon tour this summer, like her fellow superstars, Helene Fischer and Andrea Berg, Francine Jordi, was by no means letting the grass grow beneath her feet.

On August 1st, at the behest of the Swiss government, she flew down to Southeast Asia to perform at the Swiss Embassy's, first ever, "Swiss Day" event at the Swissotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Earlier in the year she was featured on the 30th anniversary special of the famed Musikantenstadl schlager show. And in late June, she travelled to Vienna for the big Danube Island Music Festival.

Additionally, she maintained a busy schedule of TV appearances and began work on a duet CD with pop singer, Florian Ast, which will be released on September 30th.

Here she is performing at this year's Musikantenstadl 30th anniversary broadcast:



Here she is at this summer's Danube Island Festival in Vienna, Austria on June 26th with the pop offering Die entdeckung der gefuhle (The discovery of feelings):



With the blustery Chicago winter heading our way, what better way to end the summer than with Den schönsten Kuss des Sommers (The best kiss of Summer) from Francine Jordi? She's really at her best in this little clip, also from the Danube Island Festival:



Is it just my perception, or does Francine Jordi seem to be getting more blond with each passing year? Must be the bleaching effect of all that Southeast Asian summer sun, right?