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 shows a vocalist and musician without boundaries.
Her unorthodox approach to rewriting classic works pays tribute to their authors and at the same time is 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 Michael and Randy Brecker, Jim Hall, Toots Thielemans, John Medeski, Paul Wertico, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Robert Irving III, Michal Urbaniak, Terry Callier, Patricia Barber, John McLean, Jarek Bester, Andrzej Jagodzinski, 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, to named just few. Amidst her active schedule of Worldwide performances, Grazyna has managed to record, produce and distribute seventeen albums, ten under her own record label, GMA Records, and appearing on as many projects as a guest.

Among many awards she was named Best Jazz Vocalist 6 times by the prestigious European Jazz Forum Magazine, Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival awarded her the TOP VOCALIST with album Homage - Three for Brazil recorded for Pony Canyon Records in Japan.

The LA Times says "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 CD "The Light" says Howard Reich "Chicago Tribune" music critic.
The Grazyna Auguscik Orkestar Universale Project, presented at Millennium Park in Chicago, received a standing ovation, reaffirming that music can communicate across boundaries of any language.

Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune said about her performance: “Auguscik and her ensemble sound like nothing else you ever heard; they are out of this world. This must-see performer is one of the best voices to be heard today.”
Recently her another visionary project and concert "Chopin World Sound" at the Millennium Park with 14 musicians on stage, gathered over 10,000 people in the audience and was chosen one of the 10 most important performances during last three decades, next to Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Wynton Marsalis Septet, Frank Sinatra, Marcus Roberts, Tropicana Orchestra, Danilo Perez, Oscar Brown Jr., and Igor Butman.

In a meantime Ms. Auguscik collaboration as an assistant producer for Patricia's Barber two latest Blue Note recording projects brings another worldwide highly acclaimed albums. As of now her new European release "Personal Selection" already came out and another new album "The Beatles Nova" is in full rotation in all jazz radio stations all over the

U.S.

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.