Alicja Szemplińska
Alicja Maria Szemplińska (; born 29 April 2002), also known mononymously as Alicja, is a Polish singer. She won season 10 of '' The Voice of Poland'' in 2019. The following year, she won Poland's national Eurovision selection competition '' Szansa na sukces'' with her song " Empires", which she would have performed at the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam on 14 May 2020. On 18 March 2020, the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December .... Although Alicja expressed her desire to represent Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, she was ultimately not chosen to represent Poland again and Rafał Brzozowski was chosen instead. Discography Studio albums * ''Nie Wracam'' (2024) Singles * " ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ciechanów
Ciechanów is a city in north-central Poland, seat of the Ciechanów County in the Masovian Voivodeship. As of December 2021, it has a population of 43,495. A city with almost a thousand years of history, recorded in 1065, Ciechanów is one of the oldest and largest cities of northern Mazovia, particularly known for its Middle Ages, medieval castle, brewery, founded in the 18th century, and the science park with the unique Hyperboloid structure, hyperboloid water tower. The city has experienced several foreign invasions and was the site of the publication of Poland's pioneering honey harvesting law in 1559. From 1975 to 1998, it was the Capital (political), capital of the Ciechanów Voivodeship. History The settlement is first mentioned in a 1065 document by Bolesław II the Bold handing the land over to the church. The medieval Gord (archaeology), gord in Ciechanów numbered approximately 3,000 armed men, and together with the region of Mazovia, it became part of the emerging P ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Krystian Ochman
Krystian Jan Ochman (; born 19 July 1999), known professionally as Ochman, is a Polish-American singer-songwriter. He rose to fame after winning the eleventh season of '' The Voice of Poland'' and represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "River". Early life Ochman was born in Melrose, Massachusetts to a Polish family. He started to take singing lessons during his high school years and later played the role of the prince in a musical production of ''Cinderella''. Ochman graduated from Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland in 2017. Following his high school graduation, he enrolled at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Career 2020–2021: ''The Voice of Poland'' and ''Ochman'' In 2020, he auditioned for the eleventh season of '' The Voice of Poland'' with the song "Beneath Your Beautiful" by Labrinth and Emeli Sandé, getting chair turns from Michał Szpak and Edyta Górniak. He joined Michał Szpak's team and wo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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21st-century Polish Singers
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The Voice (franchise) Contestants
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Living People
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The Ride (Rafał Brzozowski Song)
"The Ride" is a song by Polish singer Rafał Brzozowski. The song represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Eurovision Song Contest Internal selection On 12 March 2021, Telewizja Polska confirmed that Rafał Brzozowski would represent Poland in the 2021 contest. At Eurovision The 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ..., the Netherlands and consisted of two semi-finals on 18 and 20 May 2021, and the grand final on 22 May 2021. According to the Eurovision rules, all participating countries, except the host nation and the " Big Five", consisting of , , , and the , are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals to compete for the final, although th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pali Się
"Pali się" is a song by Polish band Tulia. A bilingual version with additional English text, titled "Fire of Love (Pali się)", represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv. It did not progress to the final. Eurovision Song Contest The song was selected to represent Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 after Tulia was internally selected by the Polish broadcaster. On 28 January 2019, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Poland was placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 14 May 2019, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show. Once all the competing songs for the 2019 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the show's producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Poland performed in position 4, and did not qualify for t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tulia (band)
Tulia is a Polish folk music group. The band was formed in 2017, in Szczecin, Poland. There are three singers in the band: Dominika Siepka, Patrycja Nowicka and Tulia Biczak, whose name was chosen as the name of the band. They received major attention in Poland in 2017, after sharing a cover of Depeche Mode's song "Enjoy the Silence" on YouTube. The group use the white voice singing technique. Career In 2017 they recorded and uploaded their own version of Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode which in the same month was published on the band's fanpage. In November 2017, in Szczecin, Tulia band was officially formed. In February 2018, they realised an official video to the song. It scored over 11 million views on YouTube. In the same month they presented a video clip to their cover of "Nieznajomy" by Dawid Podsiadło. On 25 May 2018, they released their first album, called ''Tulia (album), Tulia'' and distributed by Universal Music Poland, which includes a number of original songs ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Poland In The Eurovision Song Contest
Poland has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 27 times since its debut in . The Polish participating broadcaster in the contest is (TVP). Poland's debut in the contest in remains its most successful entry, with " To nie ja!" by Edyta Górniak finishing second. This remains Poland's only top five result in the contest. The country reached the top ten for the second time with Ich Troje finishing seventh in . Poland then failed to qualify from the semi-finals in six out of seven years between 2005 and 2011, before withdrawing from the contest in 2012. Since returning in 2014, Poland had qualified for the final for four consecutive years (2014–2017), achieving a third top ten finish in , with Michał Szpak finishing eighth. The country failed to qualify three contests in a row (2018, 2019, and 2021), a streak that ended with Ochman finishing 12th in 2022. History (TVP) is a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1 January 1993, thus eligible t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wiwibloggs
Wiwibloggs is a fansite and YouTube channel focusing on the Eurovision Song Contest, launched in 2009 by journalist William Lee Adams. History In April 2015, Wiwibloggs won the Arts & Culture category at the UK Blog Awards. Adams has judged at national selections for a number of countries, among them Armenia (in 2017), Belarus (in 2020), Finland (every year between 2017 and 2021), Germany (as a member of the 100-member fan jury panel in 2019), Norway (in 2017 and 2018), Romania (in 2019, alongside fellow Wiwibloggs correspondent Deban Aderemi), Slovenia (in 2025) and Spain. Wiwibloggs staffers have also been among the jurors for selections in Latvia and Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share .... In some cases, their role as jurors in national selection ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |