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Mira Kubasińska (8 September 1944 – 25 October 2005) was a Polish blues rock singer during the big beat (an alternative term for rock and roll) period of the Polish music scene in the 1960s and 1970s. She was a member of the bands Blackout, Breakout, and After Blues.
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Mira Kubasińska (8 September 1944 – 25 October 2005) was a Polish blues rock singer during the big beat (an alternative term for rock and roll) period of the Polish music scene in the 1960s and 1970s. She was a member of the bands Blackout, Breakout, and After Blues.
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Early life Kubasińska was born at Bodzechów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland in 1944. She grew up in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. Her grandfather played the violin and her father played the accordion. During her childhood, Kubasińska won a competition ran by the "Microphone for Everyone" radio show. She also practiced ballet in a folk ensemble at the Zakładowy Dom Kultury in Ostrowiec.
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Music career Kubasińska moved to Rzeszów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, in November 1962 to join the band of Roman Albrzykowski, a band leader for dance orchestras. In 1963, Kubasińska sung a cover of "Let's Twist Again," originally by American rock and roll singer Chubby Checker, with blues guitar player Tadeusz Nalepa at the Young Talent Festival in Szczecin, Pomerania. Kubasińska and Nalepa became close during rehearsals, exchanged addresses and wrote each other letters. They married at the Civil Registry Office, Wałbrzych on 8 January 1964. They had one son, Piotr Nalepa, who was born in 1965 and became a guitarist. During the early 1960s, Kubasińska sometimes sung for the "edgy" blues rock band Blackout, with members including her husband and Stanisław Guzek (also known as Stan Borys). Blackout's biggest hit was the anti-war song "Wyspa." In 1965 and 1966 Blackout toured with the British group London Beats in both Poland and England. Kubasińska was only permitted to travel abroad from Poland (then under the leadership of Władysław Gomułka of the Polish United Workers' Party) as she was a married woman and mother. After Guzek left Blackout in February 1968, Kubasińska became lead singer of the reformed and renamed band Breakout. Her husband…
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Death and legacy Kubasińska died at Otwock, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, in 2005, after suffering a stroke while out shopping. She is buried at Otowick. A memorial plaque has been erected in Kubasińska's memory at the Old Cemetery in Rzeszów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland. Kubasińska has been referenced in a 2008 poem by cultural historian and writer Stanislav Lvovsky.