Basia

Quick Facts

Full Name	Basia
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Sep 30, 1954(1954-09-30)
Age	70
Birthplace	Jaworzno
Country	Poland
Horoscope	Virgo

Basia Biography

Basia is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on September 30, 1954 in Jaworzno, Poland. Basia was born in Jaworzno, Poland in 1954. She was the youngest of three siblings – one brother and two sister and her parents operated an ice cream stand that was a hit in the town’s central area. Growing in a musical family, Basia enjoyed singing from at an early age. She also owned an vast record collection. Her mother taught an instruction in piano.

Basia moved from London together with her companion in the beginning of January of 1981, and continued to record demo tracks for a variety of artists. It was in London that she came across Danny White (brother of jazz guitarist Peter White) and his collaborator Mark Reilly. The group appeared in 1983 under the name Bronze however, they later , they changed their band’s name back in the following year to Matt Bianco. The band’s debut record Whose Which Side Do You on? is released on the 14th of July in 1984, and quickly became a smash across Europe. It led to the international Top 40 singles “Get Out of Your Lazy Bed”, “Half a Minute”, “More Than I Can Bear” and”The title song.

The second album, London Warsaw New York, recorded in 1989 and released in early 1990, was promoted by the popular singles “Baby You’re Mine” and “Cruising for Bruising”. The latter peaked in the top 40 on both US and Canadian singles chart and turned out Basia’s biggest hit yet. The album also included the cover of Stevie Wonder-penned track “Until You Come Back to Me” which was a minor hit on the Adult Contemporary chart. London Warsaw New York was another commercial success, selling in over two million units worldwide, including more than one million in the US, earning Basia her second platinum certification there. It also became Billboard’ s Contemporary Jazz Album of

1990. The album was a strong seller in Japan which at that point had become Basia’s second main market. On the back of Basia’s continuing success, her label released Brave New Hope, a compilation consisting of remixes and B-sides, and her first long-form video A New Day, containing music videos and an interview.

Her third studio album, The Sweetest Illusion, was released in spring 1994. Mixed by the then-highly sought after David Bascombe, the project marked the end of a ten-year working relationship with mixmaster Phil Harding and a step into more sophisticated territory. The Sweetest Illusion included a number-one hit on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, “Drunk on Love”, and the moderately successful song “Third Time Lucky”. Although it did not match the commercial performance of Basia’s two previous albums, it still reached the top 40 on the US charts and received gold certification from the RIAA for selling over half a million copies. The album turned out a bigger success in Japan where it peaked in the top 10 and was her best-selling record yet, eventually receiving platinum sales award. During the tour in support of The Sweetest Illusion, Basia played her first ever solo concerts in Poland. Recordings from two November shows at the Neil Simon Theatre on New York City’s Broadway were released in autumn 1995 as her first ever live album, Basia on Broadway.

Basia owns a son named Mikolaj which was born in latter part of 1970. When she was in the 1980s and 1970s, her husband was an English man named John who was an employee in the field of social work. she briefly resided in Chicago before moving back to UK. In the latter half of the 1980s Basia was in a the relationship with her musical collaborator Danny White. Since 1991, Basia’s boyfriend is singer Kevin Robinson, a member of Simply Red, with whom she lives in the London suburbs. Basia has a home in her Polish home town of Jaworzno and splits her time between both countries. She is a dual citizen, Polish and British.

Basia Net Worth

Basia is one of the richest Singer from Poland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Basia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Barbara Stanislawa Tsetse’lefska [‘baca'(listen) ( listen ) more commonly referred to in the guise of Basia (born on the 30th September, 1954) is a Polish musician, singer and record producer well-known for her Latin-inspired jazz pop music. She began performing professionally in several Polish groups in the latter half of the 1960s through the 1970s. She then moved in her home in the UK at the age of 1981. Her fame grew for her singing within Matt Bianco, a British band Matt Bianco. In the year 1986 Basia along with her fellow bandmate Danny White had left the group to pursue a solo career. She joined Epic Records and enjoyed a lucrative international career between 1987 and 1995, primarily in the USA in which her two debut album Time and Tide and London Warsaw New York were certified platinum million-unit sales. In the time period her greatest hits included “Time and Tide”, “New Day for You”, “Promises”, “Baby You’re Mine”, “Cruising for Bruising” as well as “Drunk on Love”. She also built an audience in Japan and in the Philippines. The singer took a long hiatus because of personal tragedies but returned to performing and recording regularly in the latter half of 2000. Her music is currently released via independent labels.

The year was 1969. Basia made her debut as a singer in the local group Astry and also performed in The National Festival of Beat Avangarde in Kalisz which was where they were first. A natural in the field of exact sciences, Basia was intending on studying mathematics at Jagiellonian University, but eventually began a physics course. In the beginning of her course, Basia was offered a job by the director of renowned Polish all-female group Alibabki who offered her a performance in Alibabki. Basia was interested and quit the university , and began singing with Alibabki in 1972. She performed with them throughout Poland and around the world, mostly throughout countries of the Eastern Bloc countries, until 1974. in 1976 Basia was a part of an event called the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole as a soloist with not much results. Between 1977 and 1979, she sang in the Polish rock group Perfect performing songs that were popular in the Polish neighborhood center located in Chicago.

Despite the success, Basia and Danny left Matt Bianco in 1985 to focus on Basia’s solo career, marking the beginning of a longtime collaboration which lasts to date. Their first release was the single “Prime Time TV” in 1986 which was a minor charts success in the UK and Germany. Basia’s first solo album, Time and Tide, was released in 1987 and initially met with mixed commercial success, selling well in France but performing poorly in the rest of Europe. Accompanying singles “New Day for You” and “Promises” were only modest successes too. The album fared much better in the US where it found popularity on the smooth jazz radio stations. The song “Time and Tide” was Basia’s first hit on Billboard Hot 100, peaking at no. 26 in 1988, followed by “New Day for You” and “Promises” both reaching the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1989. The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in November 1989 for selling one million copies in the US alone. Worldwide, it sold almost two million copies.

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Who is Basia Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Basia Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Poland. Basia celebrates birthday on September 30 of every year.

What is Basia doing now?

She had also built up a fan base in Asia. She took a lengthy hiatus due to personal tragedies, then made a comeback to regular recording and performing in the late 2000s. She currently releases her music through independent labels.

What country is Basia from?

Polish

What is Basia?

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How old is Basia now?

67 years (September 30, 1954)

Where is Matt Bianco from?

United Kingdom