Karin Stanek

Karin Stanek

Karin Stanek (born August 18, 1943 in Bytom ; † February 15, 2011 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a Polish rock and pop singer.

Career

After attending primary school, she worked as a messenger. Her musical career began in the early 1960s when she appeared as a singer in various talent competitions. In a competition organized by Polskie Radio in Katowice , she qualified for the first Young Talent Festival, held in Szczecin in 1962 . 150 singers took part in this casting show. 30 of them made it to the finals, including Stanek and later well-known artists such as Wojciech Korda , Helena Majdaniec and above all Czesław Niemen . She then became the singer of the band Czerwono-Czarni , one of the most important groups in the Polish version of beat music until 1969. A number of songs were created especially for her, often in the style of rock 'n' roll or folk . She later worked with various mostly short-lived bands such as The Samuels and Schemat.

Stanek received awards at various festivals: 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966 in Opole , 1962 and 1964 in Sopot . At the same time, she expanded her stage presence to Czechoslovakia , Hungary , the Soviet Union and the GDR . In 1976 she traveled to the USA to perform and then to the Federal Republic of Germany , from where she never returned to Poland. She lived in Germany until her death, where she also recorded some records in German and English (including "Let's Have a Party" under the pseudonym Cory Gun). In the ZDF show Disco she appeared with the title “I like you the way you are”. It was only after 1989 that she was seen more frequently in Poland again, and in 1991 her biography was published by Anna Kryszkiewicz. In 2005 her last single "Sex" was released in Germany. In 2007, her health deteriorated and four years later she died early of pneumonia .

Discography

Albums

• 1966: Malowana lala - Najpopularniejsze przeboje śpiewa Karin Stanek
• 1979: The concentrated temperament with the unheard-of voice
• 1992: Greatest Hits
• 1999: Malowana lala
• 2002: Jedziemy autostopem - Złota kolekcja
• 2003: Platynowa kolekcja - Złote przeboje
• 2003: Jimmy Joe - Polskie perły
• 2006: Platynowa kolekcja - Moje złote przeboje
• 2009: Dziewczyna z gitarą
• 2011: Autostopem z malowaną lalą

EPs

• 1962: "Malowana piosenka" / "Teddy Bear" / "Jimmy Joe" / "Tutti Frutti" (with Czerwono-Czarni )
• 1963: "Chłopiec z gitarą" / "Wio, kary" / "Piosenka o warkoczykach" / "Gaz, panie szofer" (with Czerwono-Czarni)
• 1963: "Wala twist" / "Jedziemy autostopem" / "Piosenka z uśmiechem" / "Biała bluzka, czarne spodnie" (with Czerwono-Czarni)
• 1964: "Zielone serce" / "Katarzyna" / "Motor i ja" / "Dla młodych ten twist" (with Czerwono-Czarni)

Singles

• 1979: "I like you the way you are"
• 1979: "Hey Schnucki, come and dance Boogie Woogie"
• 1979: "Tango Gitano"
• 1981: "Let's Have a Party" (as Cory Gun)
• 1982: "Don't Play That Game with Me" (with Blackbird)
• 1982: "Tell Me" (with Blackbird)
• 1984: "You Better Run for Your Life (If You Can)" (with Blackbird)
• 2005: "Sex"

Filmography

• 1963: Gdzieś w Polsce
• 1964: Dwa żebra Adama

literature

• Anna Kryszkiewicz: Karin Stanek - Malowana lala , Warsaw 1993, ISBN 83-85606-35-1
• Anna Kryszkiewicz: Karin Stanek. Autostopem z malowaną lalą , Warsaw 2015, ISBN 978-83-7945-068-8

Web links

• Official homepage (Polish).
• Official Facebook homepage (Polish).
• Literature by and about Karin Stanek in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Karin Stanek in the Internet Movie Database .
• Karin Stanek on EMI Music Polska ( Memento from February 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (Polish).
• Archiwum polskiego rocka ( Memento from January 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Polish).