Basia

Basia ( born September 30, 1954 in Jaworzno, Poland; actually Barbara Trzetrzelewska, Basia is the diminutive of her first name ) is a Polish singer.

She became known as a multi-year lead singer of the English rock band Matt Bianco. Her collaboration with Matt Bianco held but only up to their first album. It was replaced for the second album by Jenny Evans, but in the long refrained Matt Bianco to a singer and sang all the parts themselves or they could be here for other singers (eg by the rapper Ambassador ). Your greatest solo achievements came in the 1980s and early 1990s in the U.S. and in Asia. The music of the first album Basia but has so marked that pulled the Matt Bianco - style sustained by all of their albums, either by the overall sound of the songs, the jazz -associated harmonies, or the fact that the vast majority of their songs Sambas are. 2014, it was awarded the Order of Knights of the Equestrian Order of Polonia Restituta.

Discography

Albums

• Time And Tide - 1987 ( U.S. # 36, UK # 61)
• London Warsaw New York - 1990 ( U.S. # 20, UK # 68)
• The Best Remixes - 1990
• Brave New Hope - 1991
• The Sweetest Illusion - 1994 ( U.S. # 27)
• Basia on Broadway - 1995
• Traditional Polish Sambas - 1998
• Clear Horizon - The Best of Basia - 1998
• Simple Pleasures - 2003
• It's That Girl Again - 2009
• From Newport To London: Greatest Hits Live ... And More - 2011

Singles ( in the charts )

• Primetime TV - 1987 ( D # 68, UK # 88)
• Promises - 1988 ( UK # 48)
• Time And Tide - 1988 ( U.S. # 26, UK # 61)
• New Day For You - 1988 ( U.S. # 53, NL # 74)
• Baby You're Mine - 1990 ( UK # 84, # 45 F )
• Cruising For Bruising - 1990 ( U.S. # 29, UK # 86, NL # 51, # 46 F )
• Drunk On Love - 1995 ( UK # 41, U.S. Dance # 1)