Casimir Lach He has almost always been associated with Krakow. He is an Arabist by education, but as he admitted, he has never worked in his profession.
“I did many things. I worked in corporations, for the Polish airline LOT, in Italy as a sales representative and I was a taxi driver,” he said.
The participant admitted that he had a chance to pursue a football career, but it never came true. “I was in the juniors in Wisla Krakow. (…) I even trained with a third-league team Grzegorz Lata” – he recalled.
Lach fell in love with music, and especially jazz. “This is what you should know,” he said. “I was 40 and I started to be interested in jazz. It even got to the point where I started my own band. We got an offer to play at the biggest jazz festival in Sweden,” he said.
The 61-year-old also added that he had the opportunity to play for King of Sweden“We are sitting in the Mały Rynek in Krakow, playing. A whole entourage drives by, limousines. It turned out that it was the king Charles Gustav XVI. He stopped and listened to two of our numbers,” he revealed.
A contestant on “The Voice Senior” sang a hit “Cose Della Vita” by Eros Ramazzoti, However, he was unable to turn any of the chairs around.
During a later conversation with the coaches, he astonished them when he told them about one of his courses as a taxi driver.
“It used to be that when I was riding in my taxi, I would sing jazz standards. And it used to be that the passengers wanted an extra ride because the performance was so good. So we did an extra ride and made up for it. Strange things like that happen,” he said, not believing the story. Tomek Szczepanik.
“You’re having fun with music and it’s obvious that you enjoy it. Thank you for having us,” Lach’s coach said goodbye.