Grazyna AuguscikSinger, composer, arranger, and producer Grazyna Auguscik has won the praise and admiration of music critics, jazz enthusiasts and even non-jazz audiences with a singular voice that speaks a universal language. She is one of the most intriguing contemporary vocalists on today’s world jazz scene. Her elusive style challenges traditional definitions of jazz and shows a vocalist and musician without boundaries. Her unorthodox approach to rewriting classic works pays tribute to their authors and at the same time is an adventure into uncharted territory. Her original music gives a fresh taste of uncanny flavor.She began her professional music career in Europe, and then completed her studies at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1992. Since then she has become a prolific collaborator shearing the stage with such jazz notables as Michael and Randy Brecker, Jim Hall, John Medeski, Paul Wertico, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Robert Irving III, Michal Urbaniak, Urszula Dudziak, Patricia Barber, John McLean, Matt Ulery, Paulinho Garcia, Jarek Bester. Andrzej Jagodzinski and many others. Grazyna has recorded, produced and distributed 23 albums, 13 of which were under her own record label, GMA Records, and has appeared as a guest on as many projects. Her album Pastels was chosen one of the best of 1998 by National Public Radio listeners. Her 2002 release River placed her as one of the hottest young jazz talents in the country. In 2003 Grazyna received Twirlie Nomination for Top 15 FEMALE VOCALISTS and was nominated for Best Female Vocalist of 2002 by 22nd Annual Chicago Music Awards. She was named Best Jazz Vocalist of 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2016 by a prestigious European Jazz Forum Magazine. In 2002 Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival awarded her with the TOP VOCALIST title, and the album Homage - Three for Brazil recorded for Pony Canyon Records in Japan was on a TOP 20 JAZZ ALBUMS list in Asia. “Auguscik may be on the brink of innovation,” says a Chicago Tribune critics review. Find out why the LA Times says "Grazyna Auguscik is doing important work in advancing the potential for imaginative jazz singing. She is a singer to be watched.” The Grazyna Auguscik Orkestar Universale Project, presented at Millennium Park in Chicago in 2006, received a standing ovation, reaffirming that music can communicate across boundaries of language. Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune said about her performance: “Auguscik and her ensemble sound like nothing else you ever heard; they are out of this world. This must-see performer is one of the best voices to be heard today.” The album Andanca received great review at DownBeat Magazine radio stations around the country and abroad. Her concert Chopin World Sound at Millennium Park in Chicago on July 25, 2010 with 14 musicians on stage, gathered over 10,000 people in the audience and was chosen one of the 10 most important performances during last three decades in Chicago area, next to Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Wynton Marsalis Septet, Frank Sinatra, Marcus Roberts, Tropicana Orchestra, Danilo Perez, Oscar Brown Jr., and Igor Butman. In 2011 she received the Outstanding Pole Aboard award from the Teraz Polska foundation, and the annual award of the Polish Ministry of Culture. In 2017 she received Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis awarded by Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland In 2018 she received award from National Polish TV “ Polonia “Artist without boarders” In 2016 she established “Sound and Notes” non profit foundation and brought to Chicago “Chopin IN the City” , an 8 day arts festival in Chicago. “She's a music machine.” – C. Loudon, Jazz Times “... stunning use of her lithe, mobile voice ... she is doing important work in advancing the potential for imaginative jazz singing... result is a singer to be watched.” – Don Heckman, LA Times “Grazyna Auguscik is emerging as an individual voice in a world of sound-alike singers ... Auguscik approaches the art of jazz singing with fervor and intensity. She treats even the most well-worn fare with a spirit of adventure.” – Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune “Her name is Grazyna Auguscik and she is one of the hottest jazz talents in the country.” – American Jazz Scene“Jazz Innovator Singer Grazyna Auguscik a fresh voice on a jazz scene ... powerful statements.” – Mark Guarino, Daily Herald"One of Chicago's hidden treasures, singer Grazyna Auguscik is a jazz-rooted, genre-blurring provocateur.” – Michael Wojcik, Illinois Entertainment“... she conjures otherworldly images of Yma Sumac sweating to an Esquivel beat.” – C. Loudon, Jazz Times Discography:Solo albums: 2023 “2 The Light” GMA Records 2019 Bossa e Outras Nova, GMA Records 2019 Bossa e Outras Nova, Muzak Records 2016 Never mind the rain, GMARecords 2016 Koledy , MTJ Records 2016 Szeptem MTJ Records 2015 The Beatles Nova, Muzak Records 2014 Grazyna Auguscik Orchestar Inspired by Lutoslawski, Four tune Records 2012 Man behind the sun-Songs of Nick Drake GMA Records/EMI 2011 Personal Collection, MTJ Records 2011 The Beatles Nova, MTJ Records 2008 Andanca, GMA Records 2007 Sounds Live Sounds, GMA Records 2005 Lulajze - The Lullaby for Jesus, GMA Records 2005 The Light, GMA Records 2003 Past Forward, GMA Records / Jazz Institute of Chicago Sound Archive and Recordings 2002 Homage -Three for Brazil, Pony Canyon Records (Japan) 2001 River, GMA Records 2001 Don't Let Me Go, GMA Records (Remastered Release + BT featuring Michal Urbaniak) 2000 Fragile, GMA Records 2000 To i Hola, Selles Records 1998 Pastels, GMA Records 1997 Koledy, Voice Magic Records 1996 Don’t Let Me Go, GMA Records 1989 Sunrise Sunset, Polskie Nagrania --- Some records featuring as a guest (selected projects): 2023 Robert Swistelnicki-Piosenki Milosne wczesnej postkomuny I pozniego kapitalizmu-SJ Records 2022 Andrzej Jagodzinski REQUIEM, PRK 2022 Luka Mazur Quartet Impresje Swietokrzyskie IMG 2022 Zorza Przesliczna Wynika-Ryszard Wojciol United Orchestra-FINA 2022 Krzysztof Puma Piasecki “Cieplykraj”-Soliton 2014 In the Ivory-Matt Ulery- Greenleaf Music 2012 FROMM -The Intuition Orchestra MTJ 2012 By a Little Light -Matt Ulery - Greenleaf Music 2011 Muzyka Polska - Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio - SRMT Records 2009 Krzysztof Komeda -Agora 2010 My very life - Paulinho Garcia - Jazzmine Record 2010 Kobiety i Jazz- Trio Inspiracje - GRAMI Records 2010 Komeda Inspiration - Jan Bokszczanin, ARMS Records 2009 Krzysztof Komeda – Agora 2009 Dylan Rise Electric Grids&Concrete Towers-Deep Tissue Records 2008 Music Box Ballerina - Matt Ulery’s Loom -Woolgathering Records 2007 Better Angels - John McLean – Origin 2007 Dobra Nowina Sienna Gospel Choir PKO 2007 Jazz Simfonica Live 11 Wielkanocny Fesival -Polskie Radio 2005 John McLean - Welcome Everything Guitar Madness - JohnMcLeanMusic 2005 Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - Cracow Klezmer Band – Tzadik 2004 Janga-Grami Records 2003 -Bereshit Cracow Klezmer Band - Tzadik 2003 Batizado Scottinho - Scott Anderson 2003 Widow's First Dawn Rope - Family Vineyard 2000 Gephart Long Quartet - Corners Gephart, Long Records 2000 The City of Strangers,-Sepia Records 2000 The Surrender- Sepia Records 1999 Primordial Passage – vinyl, Peacefrog Records, London 1999 Primordial Passage – CD, Peacefrog Records, London 1999 The Sacred Spaces Epî-Underground Evolution Records 1998 Fernando Huergo Living these Times, Browstone Records 1998 Women Who Swing Chicago- Big Chicago Records