“You know the scene really well, you know Til and Vito Schnabel – you’re making me big,” sings SIR on her debut album “…instead of rocking out to Hollywood.”
Instead of Hollywood glamour and ice-cold superficiality, Berlin actress and singer Saskia Inken Rutner, who hides behind the letters SIR, is all about telling stories that look beyond the facades and always come straight from her heart. SIR sings of drunken nights, of her relationship with mathematics, peers into Berlin backyards, sends a message in a bottle to a distant soul, or brings courage and laughter back where sadness once existed.
Deutschlandfunk writes about her: "The fun-loving Berliner tells little stories from her city in her songs, sometimes with great emotion, sometimes with infectious wit. Every now and then, there are little Berlin touches in the lyrics, but never is there a false, Icke-like romanticism."
Belgian Radio: “She embodies Berlin.”
Radio Skala: "A 21st-century Berlin native... her voice, with its rather dark, velvety timbre, also fits the successful portrait of a woman torn between self-confident city brat and sensitive backyard gem."
Folker told the music magazine: "For SIR, it's all about feeling life... Swinging through the air without any ambition gives her exactly the feeling of lightness that characterizes many of her songs."
Live & Funny: "Whether she's singing about the sun she's seeking, the rain she's feeling, or her thoughts on the health food store, or captivating with her short, open presentations – the audience is with her."