Balbina (musician)

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Balbina (2015)

Balbina (bourgeois Balbina Monika Jagielska , born May 13, 1983 in Warsaw ), formerly Bina , is a German - Polish singer , composer and songwriter who is under contract with Sony Music . She has been publishing on her own label since 2020.

Life

Balbina grew up in Warsaw until she was three years old and in 1986 moved with her parents to Berlin-Moabit . After her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Berlin-Neukölln , where she later attended the Albert Einstein Grammar School and graduated in 2002 with the Abitur. She then completed a degree in business administration after completing her preliminary diploma examination .

music

Even during her elementary school days, Balbina began to write poems and songs, staged plays with classmates and practiced singing as an autodidact in order to be able to interpret songs by Whitney Houston as authentically as possible. At the end of the 1990s, because of her affinity to the Berlin hip-hop and rap scene, she came into contact with the independent label Royal Bunker , where she met numerous genre representatives such as Prinz Pi , MOR , KIZ and Biztram . With the latter, she produced her first studio album in 2011 Bina , besides, she had at that time numerous appearances in smaller clubs , toured with the etching and featurete Prinz Pi.

Since 2014 she has been accompanied by Nicolas Rebscher ( guitar , bass , piano ), Tobias Rebscher (guitar) and Christian Vinne ( drums ) in live performances .

In 2015, Balbina and her musicians were the opening act for Herbert Grönemeyer's Continuous Now Tour.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
About brooding
  DE 47 05/08/2015 (1 week)
Question after question
  DE 33 02/24/2017 (1 week)
Point.
  DE 84 January 17, 2020 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 2011: Bina
  • 2015: About brooding
  • 2017: questions about questions
  • 2020: period .

EPs

  • 2014: doing nothing
  • 2014: doing nothing with a band

Web links

Commons : Balbina Jagielska  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annemarie Manthei: Interview with the Berlin singer: A run with Balbina. ( Memento of June 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Runner's World of July 10, 2000, accessed January 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ Balbina, interviewed by Anni Jane: musician Balbina “about brooding”. In: ThisIsJaneWayne.com. March 12, 2015, accessed January 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Pop discovery Balbina: It doesn't go away with soap. In: Spiegel Online. September 18, 2014, accessed January 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ Björn Springorum: "Today it's all about Bumsfallera". In: Tagesspiegel.de. January 6, 2020, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Balbina: Homegrown: Balbina about concrete fairy tales of an outsider girl. In: Vice . March 11, 2015, accessed January 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ Message: Congratulations: These are the successful high school graduates from Berlin. In: Tagesspiegel.de. July 8, 2002, accessed January 30, 2020.
  7. ↑ Interview: Balbina: “My family was never enthusiastic about my musical future plans”. ( Memento from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Backspin.de. September 16, 2014, accessed January 30, 2020.
  8. ↑ Balbina West Berlin Feminine. In: Juice , No. 160, July / August 2014, p. 81
  9. ^ Balbina - artist. ( Memento of December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: FourMusic.com. Status: December 4, 2014, accessed on January 30, 2020.
  10. ↑ Discussion: Balbina and “doing nothing with tape”. ( Memento of December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Musicism & Cinelove Online Communication. November 10, 2014, accessed January 30, 2020.
  11. ↑ Chart sources: DE
  12. ↑ Rolling Stone Magazine: Balbina ABOUT THINKING as a source for title and font
  13. ↑ Label website ( memento from March 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) as a source for title and font
personal data
SURNAME Balbina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jagielska, Balbina Monika (real name); Bina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, composer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw , Poland