Grażyna Łobaszewska She was born on July 20, 1952 in Gdańsk. As a child, she knew that music would be her life – during her family meetings she arranged vocal performances. Talent had solid roots: Mom was a pianist, and his father, a sailor with passion for music, brought the album of the legendary Motown label from the cruises.
“We didn’t listen to Polish music at home. Father loved Soul, I grew up on it,” the singer recalled.
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She took her first steps in Zielona Góra, at the Soviet Song Festival in 1971. Then she sang in the choirs of Halina Frąckowiak and Urszula Sipińska, and in 1978 she recorded an album with Ergo Band, which still surprises with a fresh, funk sound.
Successes and hits that have gone down in history
Łobaszewska never chased fame, and yet her voice became recognizable for several generations of listeners. Her repertoire includes songs that have gone down in the history of Polish music: “Time teaches us weather” (Jacek Cygana lyrics, 1983), “Ugly, ugly on” or “I will drink a third coffee quite calmly”.
“Grażyna is the darkest of white women,” said bass player Krzysztof Okrański. In turn, Stanisław Soyka stated directly: “This is the best soul voice in Poland.”
She was compared to Aretha Franklin and Billie Holiday. The artist herself was delighted with jazz and blues, and her interpretations – including Czesław Niemen’s “one heart” – to this day they are appreciated by listeners.
Love, marriage and difficult choices
The personal life of Łobaszewska was intertwined with music. She married the head of Ergo Band and moved to Poznań for him. The marriage did not survive, which the artist herself recalls with bitter humor:
“We lived with my mother -in -law, which had this minus, that she loved my husband the most in the world. I cooked broth, she tomato and it translated into everything,” she said.
He has a son Michał, who lives in Germany today.
An accident that changed everything
Łobaszewska went through the biggest attempt to fate in the 1980s. During the journey, the car she was driving collided with a truck. The singer recalls that just before leaving she said the words: “Well, with God.” Only she and the passenger who responded to her at the time survived.
“Everything happened in fractions of a second, but I had time to think: Lord God, I would like to love someone with reciprocity,” she recalled in an interview with the golden scene.
She came out almost without injuries, but her life was completely overwhelmed. “Waking up, I felt like a whale. God kept me, I am happy, though in a different form, but still in the world … The car had to be sawing” – she said in the same interview.
An artist without media noise
Although in the 1990s she almost disappeared from the media, she never stopped creating. In 2012 she returned with the album “We are flowing”, and five years later she recorded an album with Ajagore. To this day she gives concerts, and her performances gather faithful audiences.
“The audience knows to whose concert comes. (…) People come because they want to be in the circle of feelings once again, which I have been singing about for years. They are involved” – she emphasized in an interview with Anna Gryszkiewicz.
In 2012, she was awarded the silver medal “Merit to culture Gloria Artis”.
Today, Łobaszewska lives in Gdynia, on a hill with a sea view. He surrounds himself with simplicity, concerts, conducts vocal workshops and inspires young musicians. He still emphasizes that every moment is worth appreciating.