Kasia Nosowska

{{Infobox person

| name = Katarzyna Nosowska

| image = Nosowska1.jpeg

| caption = Kasia Nosowska, Club Exit, Brooklyn, NY

| occupation = Singer, songwriter, columnist

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|08|30|df=y}}

| birth_place = Szczecin, Poland

| years_active =

| alma_mater =

| module = {{Infobox musical artist

| embed = yes

| background = solo_singer

| alias =

| instrument =

| genre = Alternative rock, rock, electronic

| label = PolyGram Poland, Universal Music Poland, QL Music, Supersam Music, Kayax

| years_active = 1989–present{{cite web|url=http://www.wlochaty.most.org.pl/band/historia|title=Historia {{!}} WŁOCHATY|publisher=wlochaty.most.org.pl|language=Polish|accessdate=July 23, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907071352/http://wlochaty.most.org.pl/band/historia|archivedate=September 7, 2013}}

| associated_acts = Hey, Włochaty, Alians, Dezerter, Świetliki, Ścianka, Voo Voo, Piotr Banach, Pogodno, T.Love, Pustki

| website = {{url|nosowska.pl}}

}}

|signature = Nosowskasignature.jpg

}}

Katarzyna (Kasia) Nosowska (born 30 August 1971, Szczecin) is the lead singer of the Polish rock band Hey.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aAgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42|title=Izabelin Makes Hey with MTV|last=Richardson|first=Rick|date=November 12, 1994|magazine=Billboard|page=42|accessdate=April 15, 2012}} She is also known for her solo career, which in contrast to Hey's guitar-driven rock delves more into electronica. Apart from penning Hey's lyrics, she is also a columnist in several Polish magazines.

She received many awards and holds the record for the largest number of Fryderyk awards, including multiple wins in categories Author of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year.{{Cite web |title=Fryderyk 2019 – FRYDERYK 2022 |date=March 2019 |url=http://fryderykfestiwal.pl/fryderyk-2019/ |access-date=2022-03-26 |language=pl-PL}} In 2012 and 2013, she was the art director of concert tour Męskie Granie.

Discography

=Solo albums=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1" ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:9em;"\| Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"\| Album details ! scope="col" colspan="1"\| Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:9em;"\| Certifications
scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"\| POL
scope="row" \| puk.puk \| Released: 16 September 1996 Label: PolyGram Poland \| — \| POL: Gold{{cite web\|url=http://www.zpav.pl/rankingi/wyroznienia/zlote/index.php?lang=2 \|title=Bestseller charts and awards – Gold certification awards \|publisher=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry \|accessdate=July 23, 2013 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603083840/http://zpav.pl/rankingi/wyroznienia/zlote/index.php?lang=2 \|archivedate=June 3, 2013 }}
scope="row" \| Milena \| Released: 8 March 1998 Label: PolyGram Poland \| — \|
scope="row" \| Sushi \| Released: 15 May 2000 Label: Universal Music \| — \|
scope="row" \| UniSexBlues \| Released: 28 May 2007 Label: QL Music \| 1{{cite web\|url=http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=416&lang=en\|title=OLiS – sales for the period 10.09.2007 – 16.09.2007 \| work=OLiS \| accessdate = July 23, 2013}} \| POL: Gold
scope="row" \| Osiecka \| Released: 28 November 2008 Label: QL Music Album with songs written by Agnieszka Osiecka \| 1{{cite web\|url=http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=534&lang=en \| title = OLiS – sales for the period 31.08.2009 – 06.09.2009 \| work= OLiS \| accessdate = July 23, 2013}} \| POL: 2× Platinum{{cite web\|url=http://www.zpav.pl/rankingi/wyroznienia/platynowe/index.php?lang=2 \|title=Bestseller charts and awards – Platinium certification awards \|publisher=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry \|accessdate=July 23, 2013 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207105403/http://zpav.pl/rankingi/wyroznienia/platynowe/index.php?lang=2 \|archivedate=December 7, 2013 }}
scope="row" \| 8 \| Released: 23 September 2011 Label: Supersam Music \| 1{{cite web\|url=http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=692&lang=en \| title = OLiS – sales for the period 19.09.2011 – 25.09.2011 \| work= OLiS \| accessdate = July 23, 2013}} \| POL: Platinum
scope="row" \| Basta \| Released: 12 October 2018 Label: Kayax \| 1{{cite web\|url=http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=1169&lang=en \| title = OLiS – sales for the period 12.10.2018 – 18.10.2018 \| work= OLiS \| accessdate = October 25, 2018}} \| POL: Gold
colspan="4" style="font-size:90%"\| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1"

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:9em;"| Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:18em;"| Album details

! scope="col" colspan="1"| Peak chart positions

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:9em;"| Certifications

scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| POL

scope="row" | puk.puk

Released: 16 September 1996
Label: PolyGram Poland

| —

POL: Gold{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/rankingi/wyroznienia/zlote/index.php?lang=2 |title=Bestseller charts and awards – Gold certification awards |publisher=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 23, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603083840/http://zpav.pl/rankingi/wyroznienia/zlote/index.php?lang=2 |archivedate=June 3, 2013 }}

scope="row" | Milena

Released: 8 March 1998
Label: PolyGram Poland

| —

scope="row" | Sushi

Released: 15 May 2000
Label: Universal Music

| —

scope="row" | UniSexBlues

Released: 28 May 2007
Label: QL Music

| 1{{cite web|url=http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=416&lang=en|title=OLiS – sales for the period 10.09.2007 – 16.09.2007 | work=OLiS | accessdate = July 23, 2013}}

POL: Gold

scope="row" | Osiecka

Released: 28 November 2008
Label: QL Music
Album with songs written by Agnieszka Osiecka

| 1{{cite web|url=http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=534&lang=en | title = OLiS – sales for the period 31.08.2009 – 06.09.2009 | work= OLiS | accessdate = July 23, 2013}}

POL: 2× Platinum{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/rankingi/wyroznienia/platynowe/index.php?lang=2 |title=Bestseller charts and awards – Platinium certification awards |publisher=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 23, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207105403/http://zpav.pl/rankingi/wyroznienia/platynowe/index.php?lang=2 |archivedate=December 7, 2013 }}

scope="row" | 8

Released: 23 September 2011
Label: Supersam Music

| 1{{cite web|url=http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=692&lang=en | title = OLiS – sales for the period 19.09.2011 – 25.09.2011 | work= OLiS | accessdate = July 23, 2013}}

POL: Platinum

scope="row" | Basta

Released: 12 October 2018
Label: Kayax

| 1{{cite web|url=http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?idlisty=1169&lang=en | title = OLiS – sales for the period 12.10.2018 – 18.10.2018 | work= OLiS | accessdate = October 25, 2018}}

POL: Gold

colspan="4" style="font-size:90%"| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Awards and nominations

=Fryderyk=

Fryderyk awards received by Kasia Nosowska and her band Hey

class="wikitable sortable" style=text-align:left;

! Year

! Recipient

! Award

! Result

rowspan="5"|1994

| Hey

| Group of the Year

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=1994 |title= Nominees and Winners 1994 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Hey in Spodek, Katowice

| Concert of the Year

| {{won}}

Katarzyna Nosowska

| Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}

Ho!

| Album of the Year – Rock/Pop

| {{nom}}

Hey concert tour

| Event of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="3"|1995

| Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{nom}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=1995 |title= Nominees and Winners 1995 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Hey

| Group of the Year

| {{nom}}

| Album of the Year – Rock

| {{nom}}

rowspan="4"|1996

| Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=1996 |title= Nominees and Winners 1996 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

rowspan="2"|puk.puk

| Album of the Year – Alternative

| {{won}}

Album of the Year – Rock

| {{nom}}

Katarzyna Nosowska

| Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2"|1998

| Katarzyna Nosowska

| Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=1998 |title= Nominees and Winners 1998 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Milena

| Album of the Year – Alternative

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2"|1999

| Katarzyna Nosowska

| Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=1999 |title= Nominees and Winners 1999 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Hey

| Album of the Year – Rock

| {{nom}}

rowspan="3"|2000

| Sushi

| Album of the Year – Alternative

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2000 |title= Nominees and Winners 2000 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

rowspan="2"|Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{won}}

Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="5"|2001

| [sic!]

| Album of the Year – Rock

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2001 |title= Nominees and Winners 2001 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Hey – "Cisza, ja i czas"

|Song of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2"|Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{nom}}

Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}

Hey

| Group of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2"|2002

| rowspan="2"|Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{nom}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2002 |title= Nominees and Winners 2002 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="6"|2003

| Music Music

| rowspan="2"|Album of the Year – Rock

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2003 |title= Nominees and Winners 2003 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Koncertowy

| {{nom}}

Paweł Krawczyk and Leszek Kamiński (for the song "Muka!" by Hey)

| Best Music Production

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2"|Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{nom}}

Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}

Hey

| Group of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="7"|2005

| rowspan="2"|Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{won}}

Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{won}}

Hey

| Group of the Year

| {{won}}

rowspan="2"|Echosystem

| Best Album Design

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2005 |title= Nominees and Winners 2005 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Album of the Year – Rock/Metal

| {{won}}

rowspan="2"|Hey – "Mimo wszystko"

| Video of the Year

| {{nom}}

Song of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2"|2006

| rowspan="2"|Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2006 |title= Nominees and Winners 2006 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="14"|2008

| Marcin Macuk, Leszek Kamiński and Wojtek Łopaciuk (for the album MTV Unplugged)

| Best Music Production

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2008 |title= Nominees and Winners 2008 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

rowspan="2"|Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{won}}

Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{won}}

rowspan="2"|MTV Unplugged

| Best Album Design

| {{won}}

Album of the Year – Rock/Metal

| {{won}}

UniSexBlues

| Album of the Year – Alternative

| {{won}}

rowspan="2"|Nosowska – "Era Retuszera"

| Song of the Year

| {{won}}

Video of the Year

| {{won}}

Marcin Macuk and Marcin Bors (for the song "Era Retuszera" by Nosowska)

| rowspan="2"|Best Music Production

| {{nom}}

Marcin Macuk and Marcin Bors (for the album UniSexBlues)

| {{nom}}

Katarzyna Nosowska

| Composer of the Year

| {{nom}}

UniSexBlues

| Best Album Design

| {{nom}}

Hey

| Group of the Year

| {{nom}}

Hey – "Sic!"

| Song of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="4"|2009

| Osiecka

| Album of the Year – Sung Poetry

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2009 |title= Nominees and Winners 2009 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Katarzyna Nosowska

| Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{won}}

Osiecka

| Best Album Design

| {{nom}}

Nosowska – "Kto tam u ciebie jest?"

| Song of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan="10" | 2010

| Marcin Bors and Paweł Krawczyk (for the album Miłość! Uwaga! Ratunku! Pomocy!)

| Best Music Production

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2010 |title= Nominees and Winners 2010 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

rowspan="2"| Miłość! Uwaga! Ratunku! Pomocy!

| Best Album Design

| {{won}}

Album of the Year – Rock

| {{won}}

Hey

| Group of the Year

| {{won}}

Hey – "Kto tam? Kto jest w środku?"

| Song of the Year

| {{won}}

rowspan="2"| Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{won}}

Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}

Katarzyna Nosowska and Paweł Krawczyk

| Composer of the Year

| {{nom}}

Marcin Bors and Paweł Krawczyk (for the song "Kto tam? Kto jest w środku?" by Hey)

| Best Music Production

| {{nom}}

Hey – "Kto tam? Kto jest w środku?"

| Video of the Year

| {{nom}}

rowspan=6 | 2012

| Katarzyna Nosowska

| Author of the Year

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?year=2012 |title= Nominees and Winners 2012 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

rowspan="2" | 8

| Best Album Design

| {{won}}

Album of the Year – Alternative

| {{nom}}

Nosowska – "Nomada"

| Song of the Year

| {{nom}}

Katarzyna Nosowska

| Female Vocalist of the Year

| {{nom}}

Marcin Bors and Marcin Macuk (for the album 8)

| Best Music Production

| {{nom}}

rowspan="2"|2013

| Do Rycerzy, do Szlachty, do Mieszczan

| Album of the Year

| {{nom}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/nominowani/index.php?lang=2&year=2013 |title= Nominees and Winners 2013 :: Fryderyk music award|work=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |accessdate=July 20, 2013}}

Hey

| Artist of the Year

| {{nom}}

References

External links

[http://www.nosowska.pl/ nosowska.pl]
[http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-music-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/katarzyna-nosowska Katarzyna Nosowska] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627002036/http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-music-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/katarzyna-nosowska |date=June 27, 2013 }} at culture.pl

Category:1971 births

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