# Anna Maria Jopek

Anna Maria Jopek (born 14 December 1970) is a Polish vocalist, songwriter, and improviser. She represented Poland in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Ale jestem" and finished 11th out of 25 participating acts; and in 2002, she collaborated on an album with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. She has received numerous awards for her music, including Michel Legrand's Personal Award in Vitebsk in 1994, as well as all of the awards for music in Poland, together with gold and platinum records.

## Biography

She is the daughter of Mazowsze singer Stanisław Jopek (1935–2006), known as the "First Coachman of Poland" for his signature song "Furman" (The Coachman), and former Mazowsze dancer Maria Stankiewicz. Her 1999 Christmas album, Dzisiaj z Betleyem, features two duets with her father. Anna Maria's sister, Patrycja is a violinist.
In Poland she has sung with Marek Grechuta, Jeremi Przybora and Wojciech Młynarski. Abroad she has performed with Pat Metheny, Youssu'n Dour, Bobby McFerrin, Ivan Linz, Branford Marsalis, Nigel Kennedy, Richard Bona, Oscar Castro-Neves, Makoto Ozone and Gonzalo Rubalcaba among others. In 2017 Jopek also sung a duet with Sting on a New Year's TV program.
Jopek has performed at the world's leading concert venues such as Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Royal Festival Hall, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Blue Note Tokyo, The Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv or Hamer Hall in Melbourne. She has recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World studio, Abbey Road in London and Power Station in New York.
In 2015 she received the Knight's Cross Order of Polonia Restituta conferred by President Bronisław Komorowski for promoting Polish art worldwide.
In 2019 Jopek released a new album "Ulotne" (Elusive) with Branford Marsalis.
Currently, she is working on a new concert project titled "Przestworza" (The Expanses). In August 2021, she will continue this tour at Poland's most popular concert venues.
Over the past few years, Jopek has been experimenting with various stage forms. She has performed in "Czas Kobiety" (A Woman's Time), a play staged at Teatr Stary in Lublin, directed by the legend of Polish theatre – professor Leszek Mądzik. The music was written by Jopek and Robert Kubiszyn. In 2014, she accepted Song of the Goat Theatre's invitation to perform in an oratory "Return to the Voice". They held a series of performances over a month as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she was noticed by Michael Hirst, creator of HISTORY's flagship series Vikings. The producers offered her to record a song to be featured in the show.

## Discography
### Solo albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | POL | Sales | Certifications |
| Ale jestem | Released: 22 November 1997 Label: Mercury/PolyGram Poland Formats: CD | – | POL: 50,000+ | POL: Gold |
| Szeptem | Released: 6 June 1998 Label: Mercury/PolyGram Poland Formats: CD | 38 | POL: 200,000+ | POL: 2× Platinum |
| Jasnosłyszenie | Released: 26 March 1999 Label: Mercury/PolyGram Poland Formats: CD | – | POL: 50,000+ | POL: Gold |
| Dzisiaj z Betleyem | Released: 8 November 1999 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD | – | | |
| Bosa | Released: 14 September 2000 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, digital download | 3 | POL: 50,000+ | POL: Gold |
| Barefoot | Released: 28 February 2002 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD | – | | |
| Nienasycenie | Released: 25 March 2002 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD | 1 | POL: 35,000+ | POL: Gold |
| Secret | Released: 13 June 2005 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, digital download | 3 | | |
| Niebo | Released: 24 October 2005 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital download | 2 | | |
| ID | Released: 11 May 2007 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, digital download | 1 | POL: 30,000+ | POL: Platinum |
| Sobremesa | Released: 14 October 2011 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, digital download | 5 | POL: 30,000+ | POL: Platinum |
| Polanna | Released: 14 October 2011 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, digital download | 14 | POL: 15,000+ | POL: Gold |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |||||

### Collaborative albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | POL | Sales | Certifications |
| Upojenie (with Pat Metheny) | Released: 1 December 2002 Label: Warner Music Poland Formats: CD, digital download | 1 | POL: 70,000+ | POL: Platinum |
| Haiku (with Makoto Ozone) | Released: 14 October 2011 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, digital download | 17 | POL: 30,000+ | POL: Platinum |
| Minione (with Gonzalo Rubalcaba) | Released: 3 February 2017 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, album, digital download | — | POL: 60,000+ | POL: 2× Platinum |
| Ulotne (with Branford Marsalis) | Released: 14 December 2018 Label: Anna Maria Jopek Music AMJ002 Formats: album | — | POL: 30,000+ | POL: Platinum |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |||||

### Live albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | POL | Sales | Certifications |
| Farat | Released: 16 November 2003 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, digital download | 2 | POL: 35,000+ | POL: Gold |
| JO & CO | Released: 17 October 2009 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD, digital download | 4 | POL: 15,000+ | POL: Gold |
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### Compilation albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | POL | Sales | Certifications |
| Anna Maria Jopek | Released: 26 July 2006 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD (Box set) | — | POL: 5,000+ | POL: Gold |
| Dwa serduszka, cztery oczy | Released: 14 December 2008 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD (Box set) | 47 | | |
| Lustra | Released: 14 October 2011 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: CD (Box set) | 12 | | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |||||

### Video albums

| Title | Album details | Sales | Certifications |
| Farat | Released: 2003 Label: Universal Music Poland Formats: DVD | POL: 10,000+ | POL: Platinum |

### Music videos

| Title | Year | Directed |
| "Inna" | 1995 | — |
| "Ale jestem" | 1996 | — |
| "Joszko Broda" | 1997 | Dariusz Błaszczyk |
| "Nie przychodzisz mi do głowy" | 1997 | — |
| "Ja wysiadam" | 1999 | — |
| "Na całej połaci śnieg" | 1999 | — |
| "Wspomnienie" with Michał Żebrowski | 1999 | — |
| "Szepty i łzy" | 2000 | Bolesław Pawica, Jarek Szoda |
| "Na dłoni" | 2002 | — |
| "I pozostanie tajemnicą" | 2002 | — |
| "Cichy zapada zmrok" | 2003 | — |
| "Możliwe" | 2003 | — |
| "Tam, gdzie nie sięga wzrok" | 2004 | — |
| "Don't Speak" | 2005 | — |
| "Gdy mówią mi" | 2005 | — |
| "Sypka Warszawa" | 2009 | Adrian Panek |