Lena Piękniewska
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Lena Piękniewska (born Lena Bem; July 25, 1980 in Poznań) is a Polish singer.
She graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. As a fourteen-year-old she sang at Piwnica pod Baranami in Kraków [1], and began her professional music career in 2004. In 2005, she won the 41st Student Song Festival in Kraków. A year later she won the first place at Castle Meeting in Olsztyn and won a competition for the interpretation of songs by Agnieszka Osiecka during the Remember the Osiecka festival. In 2007 she received Marek Grechuta scholarship, and in 2008 she received the Artistic City of Poznań scholarship for achievement in the field of song. In the same year, she supported jazz vocalist Stacey Kent on her concert tour[2][3].
Music career
In 2010 she released her debut studio album entitled Wyspa (Island)[4][5]. In the same year she traveled to Berlin where she they took part in workshops led by Daan van Kampenhout. It inspired her to write cycle of songs Kołysanki na wieczny sen (Lullabies for the eternal sleep) consisting of fourteen tracks sung in Hebrew[6] and in Polish. Premiere concert took place during the Tzadik Festival in Poznan and in the beginning of October 2012 she published studio album of the same name recorded with a jazz quartet. In the same year she became an actress in Warsaw cabaret Pożar w Burdelu.[7] In August 2014, she sung songs from the album Lullaby for eternal sleep during the Festival of Jewish Culture in Warsaw.[8][9] In 2015, she performed at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole as part of the concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of birth of Jeremi Przybora.[10] During that concert she sang the song Nie pamiętam from the repertoire of Kalina Jędrusik.
