The part-male, part-female outfit was formed by drummer Maciej Szajkowski (formerly of the band Antidotum) in Warsaw, Poland, in 1997; their first album,Hopsasa, was released that year and helped them to gain a small following in their country (the album was released as Kapela Ze Wsi Warszawa: Wiosna Ludu in the United States and Great Britain). But the Warsaw Village Bandstarted attracting a lot more attention outside of Poland when Jaro Records, a German label, signed them in 2002 and released their second album, People's Spring (or Wiosna Ludu in Polish) the following year. the Warsaw Village Band's third album, Uprooting, was released by Jaro in 2004, and it was also in 2004 that the Warsaw residents won the BBC Radio 3 Award for best newcomer in the world music category. Subsequent releases included Upmixing (an album of remixes) and Infinity, both of which Jaro put out in 2008 (Infinity was licensed to the Brooklyn, NY-based Barbes label for distribution in the United States). Members of the Warsaw Village Band have included founder Szajkowski (b. 1975, Warsaw) on drums; Maja Kleszcz (b. 1985, Warsaw) on lead vocals and cello; Magdalena Sobczak (b. 1978) on lead vocals and dulcimer; Sylwia Swiatkowska (b. 1974, Warsaw) on lead vocals, suka (a traditional Polish fiddle that has been compared to the Bulgarian gadulka and the Indian sarangi), and violin; Wojtek Krzak (b. 1980, Kozienice, Poland) on violin, hurdy-gurdy, and drums; and Piotr Glinski (b. 1974, Warsaw) on drums and percussion. Kleszcz is the daughter of Wlodzimierz Kleszcz (b. July 27, 1949, Lublin, Poland), a Polish journalist, radio DJ, and producer who has worked with the well-known Jamaican reggae group the Twinkle Brothers and is considered an authority on a wide variety of roots music.
Artist Biography by Alex Henderson-Source: allmusic
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