Kasia Stankiewicz
Sleek, sophisticated Polish pop with a breathy, electronic edge. Crystalline synths and intimate vocals for late nights and rainy city drives.
Sleek, sophisticated Polish pop with a breathy, electronic edge. Crystalline synths and intimate vocals for late nights and rainy city drives.
Kasia Stankiewicz crafts a sound that sits at the intersection of high-fashion polish and intimate vulnerability. Her music often feels like a cool, smooth surface that hides a deep emotional reservoir. It is characterized by a clean, electronic production style that favors shimmering synths and precise, sometimes glitchy percussion, all anchored by her distinctive, airy vocal delivery.
What truly sets her apart is the transition from her early pop-rock roots into a more experimental, 'extrapop' territory. She manages to balance radio-friendly hooks with a sophisticated, almost avant-garde sensibility, utilizing space and silence just as effectively as her melodic layers. There is a certain European chic to her arrangements that feels both timeless and distinctly rooted in the early 2000s electronic boom.
For those new to her work, 'Extrapop' is the essential entry point. It captures the moment she shed her 'good girl' image for a more daring, electronic identity. Tracks like 'Schyłek lata' offer the perfect blend of her melodic gift and her sharp, modern production instincts.
Kasia Maria Stankiewicz (born 2 June 1977, Działdowo, Poland) is a Polish pop singer. She started her career in 1995 singing a song by Varius Manx, a multi-platinum Polish band, in the TV song contest Szansa na sukces (A Chance for Success). In 1999 she recorded her first solo album, Kasia Stankiewicz, with soul and jazz compositions. In 2001 Kasia Stankiewicz recorded "The Bridge Song" with the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. The single promoted their new album around the world. In 2003 she produced and published a new album called Extrapop. The first single "Schyłek lata" (The End of Summer) was a smash hit in Poland, and two other singles "Francuzeczka" (The French Girl) and "Saint Etienne" were successful too. Kasia also left behind her "good girl" image. In 2006 Stankiewicz released a new album called Mimikra (Mimicry). She released two singles from the album: "4 ręce" (4 Hands) and "Marzec" (March). On the album was also a song called Dla Frycka which Stankiewicz wrote for her first-born son. A third single from the album is "W środku myśli" (In the Center of Thoughts). It was one of the ten chosen songs to take part in the preliminary to the Sopot Music Festival. During 2008 Kasia Stankiewicz performed and recorded "Baby w Meksyku" on the Te 30 Urodziny (30th Birthday) album of Martyna Jakubowicz along with other artists recordings and two new songs performed by Jakubowicz. In December 2012, she produced a two-disc re-release of "Extrapop". There is original material on disc 2, and some remixes and the song "Run" for the series "Londoners". Kasia Stankiewicz performed Dancing with balloons in English on TVP Polonia in Poland in 2013 to promote her work. The album, entitled "Lucy and the Loop" was released in October 2014 by Warner Music Poland. The first single "Lucy" premiered on 22 August 2014. The album was in English, Stankiewicz recorded it in studios in Great Britain, Poland and Iceland. Among the track list of the CD were Lucy, Soul, Up and Dancing With Balloons among others. In 2016 Varius Manx & Kasia Stankiewicz released the 25 live 2-CD album. Varius Manx and Kasia Stankiewicz did a 25th anniversary concert at CKK Jordanki Concert Hall, in 2017 and other notable locations during their jubilee concert tour.
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Shares electropop, downtempo, synth-pop (subgenres); digital clarity, studio polished, layered dense (production style)
Shares digital clarity, studio polished, layered dense (production style); breathy, gentle, ethereal (vocal style)
Shares electropop, art pop, synth-pop (subgenres); breathy, gentle, ethereal (vocal style)
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