Kasia Zaręba

Kasia Zaręba - Polish jazz vocalist, born in Bielsko-Biała. Kasia is a graduate of the Institute of Jazz Music at the Academy of Music in Katowice, The Music Art Department at the University of Silesia and Culture Management at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. She has been running her own school of music and vocals in Bielsko-Biała called 'Instytut Muzyki Rozrywkowej' (the Institute of Popular Music). Kasia Zaręba tours and gives concerts all over Poland and participates in numerous recording sessions. Her art is based on innovative arrangements of folk songs: both well and less known to a common listener. She took part in numerous festivals and singing competitions, among others:
2008 - The Festival of Folk Music by "New Tradition Radio" (Festiwal Muzyki Folkowej Polskiego Radia Nowa Tradycja) in Warsaw, where she reached the finals,
2009 - The National Festival of Polish Song in Opole "Debuts show" (DEBIUTY Krajowego Festiwalu Piosenki Polskiej), where she also reached the finals.
In 2012 Kasia Zaręba released her first album Po mojymu, which is a skillful mélange of traditional folk songs and jazz music. The record was created in cooperation with prominent musicians and the band Benedictus from Brenna. One year later, she took part in the Polish edition of the talent show "Must be the music" in Polsat TV station in which she reached the semi-filnas accompanied by the vocalists from the folk band from Brenna, lauded for her performance by the show's jury.
Kasia Zaręba has now finished working on her second album Etnokracje which contains 4 previously unreleased songs written to traditional folk lyrics from the region of the Beskid Mountains. This time, the traditional folk content is combined with modern electronic music sounds, which makes this album unique. In her art, Kasia Zaręba has found her own way to present Polish cultural heritage to members of all generations in a very innovative and attractive way.