Blue cafe

Blue cafe
Singer Dominika Gawęda
General information
origin	Łódź ( Poland )
Genre (s)	Pop , acid jazz , funk , soul
founding	1998
Website	blue-cafe.pl
Current occupation
singing	Dominika Gawęda
Violin, guitar, keyboard	Paweł Rurak-Sokal
guitar	Sebastian Kasprowicz
bass	Marcin Błasiak
Drums	Łukasz Moszczyński
Trumpet	Piotr Grąbkowski
Trumpet	Piotr Sławiński
trombone	Michał Niewiadomski
former members
singing	Tatiana Okupnik
singing	Viola Danel

Blue Café is a Polish pop band, with elements of acid jazz , funk , soul and Latin rhythms from Łódź . They were nominated in the 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards in the Best Polish Act category. The band became internationally known in 2004 with the song "Love Song", the Polish contribution to the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest .

history

The band's first single "Español" was released in August 2001, but it was not very successful. A year later, the song "Kochamy siebie ..." was released, which became a huge hit, and the debut album Fanaberia attracted listeners and critics. In the same year the band won the Fryderyk in the category "Debut of the Year" for the song . In 2003 the band took part in the Polish preliminary round of the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "You May Be in Love". It was won by the Polish band Ich Troje with the song “No Limits - Żadnych Granic”, which reached 7th place in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga. The song "You May Be in Love" only reached third place in the preliminary round, which brought the band national success. In the same year the album Fanaberia got the platinum record certified. In 2003 the band released their second studio album Demi-sec , which reached number 3 in Poland. The album contains the song "Love Song", with which the group took part in the Polish preliminary decision for the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest . This time the band won with over 60,000 votes. In the final in Istanbul the song reached 17th place with 27 points. In 2005 the band toured abroad.

In autumn 2006 the band released their first studio album ( Ovosho ) with a new singer (Dominika Gawęda). It got gold record certified a week after its release. The fourth album Four Seasons was released in spring 2008. This reached number 4 in the Polish album charts. In May 2011, the fifth studio album DaDa was released , which reached number 7 in Poland. The album got the gold record certified. The single Buena reached number 1 in the Polish Airplay Charts, where it stayed for four weeks.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		PL
2002	Fanaberia	PL3 platinum (12 weeks)PL	First published: 2002 Sales: + 70,000
2003	Demi-sec	PL3 gold (21 weeks)PL	First published: 2003 Sales: + 35,000
2006	Ovosho	PL10 gold (8 weeks)PL	First published: September 29, 2006 Sales: + 15,000
2008	Four Seasons	PL4 (17 weeks) PL	First published: April 14, 2008
2011	Dada	PL7th platinum (25 weeks)PL	First published: May 10, 2011 Sales: + 30,000

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		PL
2011	Buena DaDa	PL1 (10 weeks) PL	First release: 2011 feat. Daro Dee

More singles

• 2001: Español (Fanaberia; first published 2001)
• 2002: Łap mnie (bejbe Fanaberia; first published: 2002)
• 2012: I'll Be Waiting (Fanaberia; first published in 2002)
• 2012: Kochamy siebie (Fanaberia; first published in 2002)
• 2003: You May Be in Love (Fanaberia; first published in 2003)
• 2003: Do nieba, do piekła (Demi-sec; first published in 2003)
• 2004: Love Song (Demi-sec; first publication: 2004, Polish contribution to ESC 2004 )
• 2004: Złość (Demi-sec; first published: 2004)
• 2006: Baby, Baby (Ovosho; first published in 2006)
• 2006: My Road (Ovosho; first published in 2006)
• 2007: Another Girl (Ovosho; first published 2007)
• 2007: Amsterdam (Ovosho; first publication: 2007)
• 2008: Czas nie będzie czekał (Four Seasons; first published: 2008)
• 2008: Niewiele mam (Four Seasons; first published: 2008)
• 2008: Girl in Red (Four Seasons; first published 2008)
• 2011: DaDa (DaDa; first publication: 2011)
• 2011: Noheo (DaDa; first publication: 2011)

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Poland (ZPAV)	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	150,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
All in all	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2

Artist awards

Tabular overview of awards and nominations
year	Award	For	category	result
2001	Fryderyk	Blue cafe	Nowa Twarz Fonografii	Won
2003	MTV Europe Music Awards		Best Polish Act	Nominated

Web links

Commons : Blue Café  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (Polish)
• Blue Café at MusicBrainz (English)
• Blue Café at Allmusic (English)
• Blue Café at Discogs (English)

swell

1. ↑ zpav.pl (Nominowani i laureaci 2001)
2. ↑ eurovision.tv ( Eurovision Song Contest 2003 )
3. ↑ muzyka.interia.pl ( Blue Café jedzie na Eurowizję! )  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ eurowizja.info ( 2004 (F) - Blue Café - Love Song )
5. ↑ eurovision.tv ( Eurovision Song Contest 2004 Final )
6. ↑ emimusic.pl ( Blue Cafe "Ovosho" - ZŁOTA PŁYTA! ) ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Chart sources studio albums: PL
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} zpav.pl (explanation of sales figures on awards)
9. ↑ itunes.apple.com (first release of the album Ovosho )
10. ↑ itunes.apple.com (First release of the Four Seasons album )
11. ↑ amazon.com (first release of the DaDa album )
12. ↑ Chart sources singles: PL Airplay ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PL LP 3