Swiss-born artiste Neda Cainero carves her own path abroad

Singer, actor and acrobat Neda Cainero is making a name for herself in France. The daughter of Swiss comedian and clown Gardi Hutter and Italian storyteller and stage director Ferruccio Cainero has chosen to forge her own artistic path abroad – in a country where she is not known as her parents’ daughter. Despite having lived outside Switzerland for many years, the 35-year-old artiste from Ticino still feels a strong tie to the canton where she was born and bred. A love of the stage runs in Neda Cainero’s blood. Her father, mother and brother are all theatre artists. So it is hardly surprising that she feels at home in this milieu. Nevertheless, it was not a foregone conclusion that Cainero would follow in her family’s footsteps. Cainero is full of admiration for her mother, who is well known in German-speaking Switzerland. “Back home, I’m often introduced as ‘the daughter of’, but in my professional sphere my mother isn’t very well known,” she says. This, she admits, may be why ...