grazyna auguscik / bio

Singer, composer, arranger, and producer Grazyna Auguscik has won the praise
     and admiration of music critics, jazz enthusiasts and even non-jazz audiences
     with a singular voice that speaks a universal language.
     She is one of the most intriguing contemporary vocalists on today’s World jazz scene.
     Her elusive style challenges traditional definitions of jazz and show vocalist and
     musician without boundaries. Her unorthodox approach to rewriting classic works
     is at once a tribute to its authors as well as an adventure into uncharted territory.
     Her originals give a fresh taste of uncanny flavor.
     Her professional music career She began in Europe, completed her studies
     in 1992 at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston,
     and has since become a prolific collaborator shearing the stage with such
     jazz notables as Jim Hall, Michael and Randy Brecker, Bobby Enriquez, John Medeski,
     Paul Wertico, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Robert Irving III, Michal Urbaniak,
     Terry Callier, Patricia Barber, John McLean, Andrzej Jagodzinski, Jarek Bester
     and many others.

        Since 1994, Grazyna has made Chicago her home where she performs at the
     legendary Green Mill, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Millennium Park, named just few.
     Her appearances at the Chicago Jazz Festival and the World Music Festival in Chicago are always
     highly anticipated.
     Amidst her active schedule of Worldwide performances, Grazyna has managed to record,
     produce and distribute fourteen albums, ten under her own record label, GMA Records,
     and appearing on as many projects as a guest.
     Her albums: "Don't Let Me Go". “Pastels”, “Fragile”, “River”, "Past Forward", “The Light”,
     “LULAJZE The Lullaby for Jesus” consistently reported #1 at stations across
     the United States and Canada bringing her into the covered Top 10 Charts of both Jazz and
     the College Music Journal

     With nomination by 22nd Annual Chicago Music Awards for Best Female Vocalist as well as
     TOP VOCAL AWARD of 2002 Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival she is named in recent years - 2002,
     2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 as Best Jazz Vocal by a prestigious European "Jazz Forum Magazine".

     Find out why the LA Times say "Grazyna Auguscik is doing important work in advancing the potential for
    imaginative jazz singing. She is a singer to be watched.”
    “Auguscik has assembled a dream band. Taking charge of the band she has created, she could make a difference
    in jazz today. Auguscik may be on the brink of innovation as does her new CD “The Light“ says Howard Reich
   “Chicago Tribune” music critic.

       In year 2006 her collaboration as an Assistant Producer for Patricia's Barber next Blue Note project brings
another worldwide highly acclaimed album “Mythologies”.
    In August of the same year Ms. Auguscik presented at Millennium Park her next project “Orkestar Universale“
   which reaffirmed once again that just about any musical language can take flight and swing.

   Her new album "Live Sounds Live" is out now getting enthusiastic reviews and the second upcoming release of
   "ANDANÇA" as of 2008 with Paulinho Garcia is already here as well.

"Auguscik and her ensemble are out of this world" - Howard Reich

"Andança is a beautiful album with a great repertoire.... I have one word to describe this album -- gorgeous.
Grazyna Auguscik and Paulinho Garcia have never sounded better together. The entire album is a feast for the ears."

- Randy Morse, Producer/Host "The Best of Brazil" KZUM 89.3 FM Lincoln, Nebraska

GRAZYNA AUGUSCIK from her new CD, THE LIGHT. I want you to process and synthesize
a whole new world jazz fusion from a ‘Peter Gabriel’ bossa nova perspective - a new interesting
direction for this very progressive artist . We played Roberta Flack’s “Until It’s Time For You To Go,”
Auguscik’s version is ingenious , worldly, out reaching our perspective of how a jazz singer should sound.
Grazyna Auguscik is setting a new standard for modern jazz singing, Listen to Auguscik’s version
of Barber’s “If I Were Blue,” surreal, European and blue, with ketch string accompaniment, occurrent of blue.

- Dick Crockett /STILL ANOTHER JAZZ SHOW/ “The Voice” 88.7fm / Sacramento, Ca