GRAŻYNA AUGUŚCIK
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, Vocal Jazz, Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz, Jazz Related Electronica, Hip-Hop, World Fusion, Third Stream, Nu Jazz • Poland

Grażyna Auguścik (born 17 August 1955) is a Polish jazz vocalist, composer and arranger.In her individualistic and international in character singing repertoire she frequently utilizes Polish folk music,Latin American music and Klezmer music. Grażyna studied guitar in her native Słupsk, Poland. Later she studied vocal, graduating in 1992 from Berklee College of Music in Boston. Her singing debut took place in 1977 at a festival in Toruń. At the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole in 1979 she won in the category of first-time contestants. W 1981 won prizes at the Student Festival of Song in Kraków and at the Festival of Traditional Jazz "Złota Tarka" in Warsaw. In 1988, Grażyna moved to the United States, where she has performed with Michał Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak, and many other leading jazz musicians, including Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, John Medeski, Patricia Barber, Paul Wertico, Bobby Enriquez, Terry Callier, John McLean, read more...