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Spent a couple of years in the band called Matt Bianco before her solo career. She collaborated with the band again for the album "Matt's Mood" (2004).

Is the second of four children.

She has 2 brothers (Jacek and Roman) and a sister (Ewa).

Older brother Jacek died when her third studio album "The Sweetest Illusion" (1994) was made.

Son, Mikolaj, born c. 1977.

In 1985, she and White left Matt Bianco to launch her solo career. In 1987, her first album, Time and Tide, was released, selling over one million copies alone in the United States, including the Top 30 hit "Time and Tide" in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her second album, London Warsaw New York (1990), repeated that success with sales of more than one million units, and featured another pop Top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "Cruising for Bruising." This album also topped Billboard's yearly chart of Contemporary Jazz albums, even beating the Grammy-winning album of Quincy Jones. Achieving success beyond the U.S. market, Basia also became a very popular artist in Japan and Europe (particularly in France). Her third and most recent studio album, "The Sweetest Illusion," was released in 1994 and was a moderate success in the U.S. market, selling over 500,000 copies, and globally became another million-seller.

In 1983, the trio performed as the jazz-pop group Bronze, but later changed their name to Matt Bianco and recorded their debut album Whose Side Are You On? (1984). This album included UK Top 30 hits "Get Out of Your Lazy Bed" and "Half a Minute," eventually achieving gold status in Great Britain.

From 1977, she sang with the rock group Perfect; settling temporarily in Chicago in 1979, she later relocated to the UK in 1981. It was there she met Mark Reilly and longtime collaborator Danny White, brother of jazz guitarist Peter White.

From 1972 to 1974, she was a member of the popular Polish female vocal group Alibabki.

In 1969, she debuted with her local amateur rock band Astry, and performed with them on Polish Festival Of Beat Avangarde in Kalisz.

Jazz singer.