DZIARMA

**Agata Dziarmagowska** (born 25th August 1997 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski), also known as **DZIARMA**, is a Polish singer, rapper, vlogger and influencer. She released her five-song debut EP, *V*, on 18th December 2019.

DZIARMA was chosen to represent Poland at The Origin Song Contest 08 in Brussels, Belgium, after being internally selected by TVP. Her song for the contest, "Demony", was chosen from six in Piosenka dla #08.

## Career

DZIARMA made her first musical appearance in 2012 participating in *Mam talent!* the Polish version of Got Talent, where she reached the semi-finals. In 2014, she participated in X Factor where she impressed the judges with her ability to both sing and rap and made it to the judges' houses stage, where judge Ewa Farna eliminated her.

Following her X Factor participation, Agata signed to Warner Music Poland and released her first song "Mogę wszystko, nic nie muszę" (I can do anything, I don't have to do anything) in June 2014, followed by an English language version, "Drop Drop", roughly a month later. In January 2015, her second single, "Blisko mnie" (Close to me) was released, followed shortly after by "President". The music for these three songs was composed by a Swedish team, including Christoffer Lauridsen and Polish-Swedish composer Mark Tysper. The same year, Agata was nominated in the *Best Radio Debut* category at the Eska Music Awards and won the *Debut of the Year* prize at the Young Stars Awards.

in July 2016, "Incomplete" was released - the first of Agata's songs to be released under the moniker *Agata Dziarma Dziarmagowska*. In 2017, she released "Kawaii" - her first of two projects with producer Maro Music. The song was entered to represent Poland at The Origin Song Contest 03 in Switzerland, however placed last in the national selection Piosenka dla Szwajcarii. Nonetheless, the song placed fourth with 69 points at the OGAO Second Chance Contest for songs which did not represent their country. In July 2018, "Coolaid" was released, a song written by Maro Music and American singer Lex Lu. "Coolaid" was the first song Agata performed under her current artist name *DZIARMA*. Later that year, she released "Drogie zabawki" (Expensive toys) featuring German-Polish rapper Malik Montana. DZIARMA has also seen large success as a featured artist, on Adi Nowak's song "Placebo", which has received over 14 million views on YouTube and 7 million streams on Spotify, and on Żabson's track "Ucieknij ze mną" (Run away with me), which has had over 5 million views and 3 million streams.

On 18th December 2019, DZIARMA released her debut EP, *V*, an EP through which the reversal of gender roles plays a large part in presenting DZIARMA as a determined and tough woman. The EP contains five tracks - "Plik" (Wad; also released as a single), "Demony" (Demons), "Zepsuty" (Rotten), "Liczi" (Lychee) and "BO$$ B!TCH".

## The Origin Song Contest

DZIARMA has made several appearances in The Origin Song Contest. She performed a mashup of her song "President" and Major Lazer, DJ Snake and MØ's globally-charting song "Lean On" as the interval act in the second-semi final of The Origin Song Contest 01 in Kraków, and competed to represent Poland in the third edition with "Kawaii", as well as presenting the votes from the Polish international jury in many other countries' national finals, such as Latvia's Supernova and Belarus' Naš Puĺs Bjecca.

Most notably though, it was announced on 1st February 2020 that DZIARMA had been internally selected to represent Poland at The Origin Song Contest 08 in Brussels, Belgium. Her song was chosen through the national final Piosenka dla #08, where she performed the five songs from her EP *V* as well as "Coolaid". The winning song, with 174 points, was "Demony" (written by 帰国者 and DZIARMA), which represented Poland in the grand final of the edition.

## Discography

### Singles

* "Mogę wszystko, nic nie muszę"/"Drop Drop" (2014)
* "Blisko mnie" (2015)
* "President" (2015)
* "Incomplete" (2016)
* "Kawaii" (2017)
* "Coolaid" (2018)
* "Drogie zabawki" (feat. Malik Montana) (2018)

#### As a featured artist

* "Placebo" (Adi Nowak, 2018)
* "Ucieknij ze mną" (Żabson, 2019)