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Wanda Małolepsza (28 April 1930 – 6 July 2019), known professionally as Wanda Warska, was a Polish jazz singer and composer who worked with her husband Andrzej Kurylewicz and was nicknamed the "First Lady of Polish Jazz".
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Wanda Małolepsza (28 April 1930 – 6 July 2019), known professionally as Wanda Warska, was a Polish jazz singer and composer who worked with her husband Andrzej Kurylewicz and was nicknamed the "First Lady of Polish Jazz".
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Early life and career Wanda Warska was born Wanda Małolepsza on 28 April 1930 in Poznań, Poznań Voivodeship, Poland. After singing at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań at the age of five, Warska studied piano as a young child and was educated at a music and ballet school and in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. She and her husband Andrzej Kurylewicz started working together in the 1950s, performing for the latter's bands for her first recording, the 1956 Sopot Jazz Festival, and the Jazz Jamboree, and serving as his repertoire's primary performer. She was the vocalist of Kurylewicz's Organ Sextet, and her 1971 album Muzyka teatralna i telewizyjna was a collaboration with him and Czesław Niemen. Zofia Komedowa, a manager commercially involved with Kurylewicz at the time, conceived Warska's pseudonym. She was a performer of sung poetry and also performed her own lyrics. She also worked in cinema, providing vocals for Night Train (1959) and Cyrograf Dojrzałości (1967) and being the composer for Jan Batory's films Jezioro osobliwości and Karino. She made live appearances not only in Europe, but also in Cuba and Venezuela. She also performed at Piwnica pod Baranami (a…
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Later life and death In 2000, she was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. She also received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Her 2005 album Piosenki z piwnicy Wandy Warskiej was a ZPAV platinum album. In 2011, Warska was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis for "her contribution to Polish culture". Polskie Radio described her 2016 album Domowe piosenki, composed of her recordings from over the past six centuries, as a "phonographic rarity", noting that her work rarely appeared on albums. In April 2016, Warska was incapacitated by a paralyzing stroke. In December 2018, a memorial concert named "Mount Jazz" was held in Warska's honour, with performances by such musicians as Grażyna Auguścik, Krzesimir Dębski, Urszula Dudziak, and Zbigniew Namysłowski and a poster designed by Andrzej Pągowski. However, the concert was made without the involvement of her daughter Gabriela Kurylewicz, who turned down the concert's profits, and none of Warska's compositions (or those of his husband) were performed due to concerns about offense towards the younger Kurylewicz. She won the 2020 Fryderyk in Jazz Music, which her daughter accepted on her behalf…