Michal urbaniak i urszula dudziak wikipedia
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Urszula Dudziak
Musical artist
Urszula Bogumiła Dudziak-Urbaniak (born 22 October 1943)[1] is a Polish jazz vocalist. She has worked with Krzysztof Komeda, Michał Urbaniak (her ex-husband), Gil Evans, Archie Shepp, and Lester kniv. In 2007, her 1970s song "Papaya" gained widespread popularity in Asia and Latin amerika.
Career
[edit]Dudziak was born in the Straconka,[1] now a neighbourhood of Bielsko-Biała, Poland. She studied piano, but began to sing in the late 50s after hearing records by Ella Fitzgerald.[1] Within a few years, she was one of the most popular jazz artists in her native country.[1] She met and later married Michał Urbaniak.[1] In the late 1960s, the couple began to tour overseas and in the 1970s settled in New York City.[1]
Dudziak customarily eschews words in favour of wordless vocalising that fryst vatten far more adventurous than scat.[1] Already gifted with a five-octave vocal range, Dudzi
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Mika Urbaniak
American pop singer
Mika Urbaniak (born Michelle Urbaniak in 1980 in New York City) is an American pop singer. She is a daughter of prominent Polish jazz musicians Urszula Dudziak and Michał Urbaniak. Born and raised in the United States, she has lived in Warsaw and London since 2001. Her style is a mixture of pop, jazz and hip-hop.[1] In 2010, she won the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry award Fryderyk in the category Album of the Year - Pop.[2]
History
[edit]Mika Urbaniak started writing her own songs at the age of 11. When she was 14, she performed on stage for the first time. A year later, the first song with her vocals was released.[1] For many years, she collaborated with major Polish artists, such as Smolik, Michał Urbaniak, Grzegorz Markowski, Mieczysław Szcześniak, Novika, O.S.T.R., Liroy and Kayah.[1][3]
Urbaniak's debut album Closer was released on 27 April 2009 through Sony Mu
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Michał Urbaniak
Polish jazz musician (born 1943)
For the Polish politician, see Michał Urbaniak (politician).
Musical artist
Michał Urbaniak (born January 22, 1943)[1] is a Polish jazz musician who plays violin, lyricon, and saxophone. His music includes elements of folk music, rhythm and blues, hip hop, and symphonic music.
History
[edit]He was born in Warsaw, Poland.[1] Urbaniak started his music education during high school in Łódź, Poland, and continued from 1961 in Warsaw in the violin class of Tadeusz Wroński. Learning to play on the alto saxophone alone, he first played in a Dixieland band, and later with Zbigniew Namysłowski[1] and the Jazz Rockers, with whom he performed during the Jazz Jamboree festival in 1961. After this, he was invited to play with Andrzej Trzaskowski, and toured the United States in 1962 with the Andrzej Trzaskowski band, the Wreckers, playing at festivals and clubs in Newport, San Francisco, Chicago, Washin