Grzegorz Karnas

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Grzegorz Karnas at the Aarhus Jazz Festival 2014
Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson

Grzegorz Karnas (* 1972 in Wodzisław Śląski ) is a Polish jazz singer .

Life

Karnas grew up in the Polish Upper Silesia ; in Rybnik High School he had a year of classical guitar lessons. He graduated from the Jazz Institute of the Katowice Music Academy . Since then he has been working in the Polish jazz scene, a. a. with Tomasz Szukalski ; In 1998 he was awarded the first prize at the International Jazz Vocalists' Meeting in Zamość . The following year his debut album Reinkarnasja appeared on Not Two Records ; this was followed by appearances in clubs and festivals in Poland and Slovakia . In 2004 Karnas released his album Sny-Dreams of a Ninth Floor and also performed in Germany. Ballads for the End of the World (Ballady na Koniec Świata) followed in 2006 with the cellist Adam Oleś. In the same year he was honored with the first prize at the Young Jazz Singers Competition in Brussels. He has released other albums under his own name, but can also be heard on productions by Yvonne Sanchez ( My Graden ), the Jazz City Choir , Jihye Lee, Maria Guraievska and Edilson Sanchez.

Discographic notes

  • Reinkarnasja ( Not Two Records 2000, with Piotr Wyleżoł , Sławomir Kurkiewicz , Krzysztof Dziedzic, Tomasz Szukalski )
  • Sny (Ninth Floor Productions 2004, with Tomasz Szukalski, Robert Kubiszyn, Michał Tokaj)
  • Ballady na Koniec Świata (Ninth Floor Productions 2006, with Radosław Nowicki, Michał Tokaj, Adam Oleś)
  • Karnas ( Hevhetia 2011, with Adam Oleś, Michał Tokaj, Michał Jaros, Sebastian Frankiewicz)
  • Audio Beads ( BMC 2012, Grzegorz Karnas Trio feat.Miklós Lukács with Adam Oleś, Michał Miśkiewicz )
  • Vanga (BMC 2014, Grzegorz Karnas Trio feat.Miklós Lukács with Michał Jaros, Sebastian Frankiewicz)
  • Power Kiss (Hevhetia 2017, with Elchin Shirinov, Alan Wykpisz, Grzegorz Masłowski)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information according to his website
  2. ↑ meeting
personal data
SURNAME Karnas, Grzegorz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Wodzisław Śląski