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Wanda Warska

Wanda Małolepsza (28 April 1930 – 6 July 2019), known professionally as Wanda Warska, was a Polish jazz singer and composer who worked with her husband Andrzej Kurylewicz and was nicknamed the "First

Wanda Małolepsza (28 April 1930 – 6 July 2019), known professionally as Wanda Warska, was a Polish jazz singer and composer who worked with her husband Andrzej Kurylewicz and was nicknamed the “First Lady of Polish Jazz”. Biography Early life and career Wanda Warska was born Wanda Małolepsza on 28 April 1930 in Poznań, Poznań Voivodeship, Poland. After singing at the at the age of five, Warska studied piano as a young child and was educated at a music and ballet school and in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. She and her husband Andrzej Kurylewicz started working together in the 1950s, performing for the latter’s bands for her first recording, the 1956 Sopot Jazz Festival, and the Jazz Jamboree, and serving as his repertoire’s primary performer. She was the vocalist of Kurylewicz’s Organ Sextet, and her 1971 album Muzyka teatralna i telewizyjna was a collaboration with him and Czesław Niemen. She also received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2011, Warska was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis for “her contribution to Polish culture”. Polskie Radio described her 2016 album Domowe piosenki,

Era
Post-War
Lived
1932–2019
From
Poland
Born in
Poznań · died Laski
Known as
songwriter, singer, film score composer, composer, chansonnier, jazz singer
Instruments
voice
Genres
jazz

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.