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Biography
Maria Sadowska (born June 27, 1976 in Warsaw), also credited as Marysia Sadowska or simply as Marysia, is a Polish pop singer, music producer, screenwriter and film director.
Career
Early life
Sadowska was born in the capital of Poland, Warsaw, to her father, a composer, and her mother, a jazz singer. She debuted as a singer at the age of 14, and produced a musical, at the age of 17, where she wrote and composed its theme music and played the main role.
1990s
Sadowska released her first album Jutro in 1995. Two years later, in 1997, she released her second and third albums, Lucky Star and Crazy, exclusively in Japan. The song "Crazy" from the third album was featured on Dancemania's seventh issue, and two songs from the second album, "Maybe Baby" and "Lucky Star", were featured respectively on Dancemania 8 and Dancemania 9.
2000s
In 2004, Sadowska released her fourth, jazz-dance-orientated album, Marysia Sadowska, which reached number 38 on the Polish OLiS chart.
Her fifth album, Tribute to Komeda, was literally a tribute album to Krzysztof Komeda. In its release year of 2006, the album reached #11 on OLiS' chart and was certified gold. The next year, 2007, she appeared on the British TV show Dancing on Ice, and released her sixth album Gwiazda dla każdego.
The 2009 album Spis treści featured her tenth single "Jest dobrze". Spis treści was her first completely self-produced album.
2010s
Her debut feature film Women's Day (Dzień kobiet) was released in 2013 and received the main award at the 22nd Film Festival Cottbus.
Sadowska was the judge of the third and fourth season of Polish TV show The Voice of Poland, with participants from her team winning twice. She returned to judging for the show's sixth season, and won again.
Personal life
Sadowska is the daughter of composer Krzysztof Sadowski and singer Liliana Urbańska. She earned a second degree in piano at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw soon after the releases of Lucky Star and Crazy. She also graduated from the Lodz Film School in 2002.
Discography
Albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POL | |||||||||||||||||||
| Jutro |
| — | |||||||||||||||||
| Lucky Star |
| — | |||||||||||||||||
| Marysia Sadowska |
| 38 | |||||||||||||||||
| Gwiazda dla każdego |
| — | |||||||||||||||||
| Spis treści |
| — | |||||||||||||||||
| Demakijaż |
| — | |||||||||||||||||
| Jazz na ulicach |
| 24 |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||||||
Cover albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POL | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kaczmarski & Jazz with Anna Serafińska and Janusz Szrom |
| — | |||||||||||||||||
| Tribute to Komeda |
| 11 |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||||||
Soundtrack albums
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Dzień Kobiet |
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Extended plays
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Crazy |
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