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Elio Banzer (born 11 January 2006) is a young musician from Switzerland. He is best known for his content on https://www.instagram.com/e0leli0/?hl=en (Instagram). He mainly plays the drums and does so since he was 3 years old, but later on he started showing interests in playing the guitar, the bass and the piano.

Discovering Music (2009-2014)
Elio Banzer began playing the drums at the age of 3 as there was an electric drum kit set up in the house that is father had bought. He wouldn't be able to reach the bass drum with his foot until he was 4 years old though. From then on he used to play the drums for hours a day and when he didn't, he'd draw a drum set or compose a new beat in his head to try out on the set later. He soon discovered the band Toto_(band) and their former drummer Simon_Phillips_(drummer). His mother had bought him Toto's Live Concert DVD Falling_in_Between_Live and he would watch a short clip of the DVD in the living room, paying close attention to the drummer's playing and would stop the video, run upstairs and try it out on his drum kit and go back downstairs to continue watching the concert. He also began to take drum lessons in 2013. A year later he started taking piano lessons with the ambitions to learn Für_Elise by Ludwig_van_Beethoven as his first song on the instrument. He pulled it off and was able to play the whole composition after a few months.

Drumming competitions and first television appearences (2015-2019)
Banzer took part at the Swiss drumming championship in Altishofen in April 2015. He had written a three minute minute long drum solo with his teacher and was ready to perform. The video of his solo was recorded by his father from the side of the stage. He won the competition and was invited by Swiss radio and television channel Schweizer_Radio_und_Fernsehen to be interviewed and perform his solo live on television.

As his run at the drumming competition was a huge success, he signed up for it again in the following year. This time he was followed by the camera of SRF right away and his second participation at the championship was documented on television. He couldn't defend his title though and took the third place.

Unhappy with himself he wanted to redeem his failure and got back to the competition in 2017. This was even the last time the event would take place so his ambitions were set to the maximum. His performance is visible through this link. The result was him winning the last Swiss drumming competition in Altishofen.

In 2019 the Swiss Drum Festival held a youth contest. Banzer took part of it and got second place. He was accompanied by Swiss radio and television channel Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha.

Banzer had several gigs over this time span. The biggest was him spontaniously playing at the BluesAndRockNight Thusis 2016. He was invited by drummer Mario Dawson to improvise on his drums during the concert of Dawson's band and pulled off a solo in front of approximately 500 people. By 2019 he had quit both drum and piano lessons, but started taking guitar lessons the same year.

Social media risings (2019-present)
Elio Banzer had already owned several Instagram accounts since 2014, but he created his current page in 2016. Allthough he hadn't been posting music related content until late 2019 when he met influencer Filippo Di Renzo in vacation in Soma Bay. Di Renzo contacted him after the vacation and motivated him to start posting content of his musical abilities regularly. Since then Elio Banzer has been uploading videos of him covering songs on multiple instruments, him drumming on his body or funny objects or just classicly improvising on the drum set. As of 4 january 2021 he has over 3.1k followers on Instagram.

Dr. Dipshit (2020-present)
In mid 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic Elio Banzer received a message on Instagram of Jamie Brüesch, the vocalist of Dr. Dipshit. They were talking about music until Brüesch asked Banzer to replace their former drummer. Banzer accepted the offer and soon the new Dr. Dipshit lineup would rehearse about once a week. They played several gigs in small venues and released a studio album until the end of the year. They had already started to recording new material in Banzer's miniture home studio.

Personal life
Elio Banzer was born in Los Angeles on 11 january 2006. His family kept on living in the United States for 2 years until they moved back to Switzerland in 2008. Banzer has been there since with his family. In 2015 his father decided on renovating the attic for his son to have space for his musical instruments and acitons.