Natalia Przybysz
{{short description|Polish musician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Natalia Przybysz
| image = Natalia Przybysz, Sopot Top of the Top Festival 2022, dzień 2 01.jpg
| caption = Natalia Przybysz at the Top of the Top Sopot Festival 2022
| occupation = Singer
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|9|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = Warsaw, Poland
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| module = {{Infobox musical artist
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| alias = Natu, N'Talia
| instrument = cello
| genre = R&B, soul, hip hop, pop
| label = Galapagos Music, Mystic Production, Warner Music Poland
| years_active = 2001–present
| associated_acts = Sistars, Archeo Sisters
| website =
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Natalia Maria Przybysz (born 1 September 1983 in Warsaw),{{cite web|url=http://www.myspace.com/nataliaprzybysz|title=Natalia Przybysz |publisher=Myspace |accessdate=5 June 2012}}{{Primary source inline|date=March 2020}} also known as Natu or N'Talia, is a Polish rhythm and blues singer. She is a member of the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (Związek Producentów Audio Video, ZPAV).{{cite web|url=http://www.zpav.pl/fryderyk/akademia.php|title=ZPAV: Akademia Fonograficzna (Sekcja Muzyki Rozrywkowej)|publisher=Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry |language=Polish|accessdate=3 October 2010}}
Natalia Przybysz was one of the founding members of the popular Polish music group Sistars, together with her sister Paulina, from 2001 to 2006, briefly in 2011, and from 2012 to 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.emuzyka.pl/Sistars/|title=Sistars|publisher=emuzyka.pl|accessdate=22 May 2011}} Since 2008, she has performed solo as Natu and recorded three studio albums. In 2013, after the final disbandment of Sistars, Natalia and Paulina Przybysz started a musical project called Archeo Sisters.{{Cite web|url=http://muzyka.wp.pl/interviewId,676311,page,4,title,Lubie-miec-kontakt-z-chaosem-rozmowa-z-Natalia-Przybysz,wywiad.html |title="Lubię mieć kontakt z chaosem" (rozmowa z Natalią Przybysz) [page 4]|language=Polish |publisher=Wirtualna Polska |date=26 June 2013 |accessdate=9 November 2013}}
Career
=Education and Sistars=
Natalia Przybysz studied cello at a music school in Warsaw. She spent her final year of high school in the United States, in Iowa, and passed her Matura exams there.{{cite web|url=http://muzyka.wp.pl/interviewId,676311,title,Lubie-miec-kontakt-z-chaosem-rozmowa-z-Natalia-Przybysz,wywiad.html |title="Lubię mieć kontakt z chaosem" (rozmowa z Natalią Przybysz) [page 1] |language=Polish |publisher=Wirtualna Polska |date=26 June 2013 |accessdate=9 November 2013}}
In 2001, Natalia, her sister Paulina, and four other musicians started the Polish musical group Sistars, playing a mixture of R&B, soul, hip-hop and pop music. The band has released two number-one studio albums, Siła sióstr (2003) and A.E.I.O.U. (2005), and an extended play titled EP (2004), and became very popular in Poland. The group disbanded in 2006.
=Solo career=
In 2008, Natalia Przybysz adopted the pseudonym Natu, and released her debut studio album Maupka Comes Home, a collaboration with music producer Envee.{{cite web|url=http://muzyka.onet.pl/0,1505998,wywiady.html |title=Bajka o małpce, kundlu i lwicy |publisher=Onet.pl |language=Polish |accessdate=5 June 2012}} It was followed by the release of her sophomore record Gram duszy in 2010.
In 2012, Natalia and Paulina Przybysz led one of the choirs in the second season of the Polish TV show Bitwa na głosy, broadcast by TVP 2.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvp.pl/rozrywka/programy-muzyczne/bitwa-na-glosy/druzyny/natalia-i-paulina-przybysz |title=Bitwa na głosy: Natalia i Paulina Przybysz |publisher=TVP |language=Polish |accessdate=12 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307011844/http://www.tvp.pl/rozrywka/programy-muzyczne/bitwa-na-glosy/druzyny/natalia-i-paulina-przybysz |archivedate=7 March 2012 }} The same year, Sistars reunited and started working on material for a new record. However, the group broke up again in 2013, and the Przybysz sisters started a new musical project called Archeo Sisters. In June 2013 Natalia Przybysz also released her third album, Kozmic Blues: Tribute to Janis Joplin, containing covers of Janis Joplin songs and one original composition, "Niebieski".
She released her latest album, Prąd, on 17 November 2014 on the Warner Music Poland label.
Personal life
Natalia Przybysz has two children, daughter Aniela (born January 2010) and son Jeremi (born June 2012). She is a vegan.{{cite web|url=http://www.gotujmy.pl/weganskie-zycie-natalii-przybysz-,artykuly,3890.html|title=Wegańskie życie Natalii Przybysz|date=28 March 2013 |language=Polish|accessdate=27 July 2013}}
In October 2016, she admitted she had had an abortion a year before, leading to public criticism in Poland.{{Cite news|url=http://kobieta.onet.pl/mialam-aborcje-natalia-przybysz-glosno-powiedziala-o-tym-o-czym-wiele-polek-musi/wtlkdk|title=Miałam aborcję. Natalia Przybysz głośno powiedziała o tym, o czym wiele Polek musi milczeć. Najgorsze zaś jest zakłamanie|date=24 October 2016|newspaper=Onet Kobieta|language=pl-PL|access-date=29 December 2016}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.wysokieobcasy.pl/wysokie-obcasy/7,53662,20861449,natalia-przyszbysz-aborcja-moj-protest-song.html?disableRedirects=true |title=Archived copy |access-date=29 December 2016 |archive-date=26 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026185509/http://www.wysokieobcasy.pl/wysokie-obcasy/7,53662,20861449,natalia-przyszbysz-aborcja-moj-protest-song.html?disableRedirects=true |url-status=dead }}{{Cite news|url=http://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/spoleczenstwo/1680374,1,natalia-przybysz-mialam-aborcje-to-przelomowe-swiadectwo-ktorych-wciaz-w-polsce-brakuje.read|title=Natalia Przybysz: "Miałam aborcję". To przełomowe świadectwo, których wciąż w Polsce brakuje|website=Polityka.pl|access-date=29 December 2016}}
Discography
{{See also|Sistars discography}}
=Studio albums=
=Music videos=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |
| scope="col" style="width:15em;"| Title
! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Directed ! scope="col" | Album ! scope="col" | Ref. |
|---|
| scope="row" |"Lion Girl"
|2008 |Marta Pruska, Justyna Jeger Naglowska |Maupka Comes Home |
| scope="row" |"Gwiazdy"
|2010 |Filip Kabulski |rowspan=2|Gram duszy |
| scope="row" |"Ocean Prayer"
|2011 |Florian Malak |
| scope="row" |"Niebieski"
|rowspan=2|2013 |Bartosz Pogoda |rowspan=2|Kozmic Blues: Tribute to Janis Joplin |
| scope="row" |"Maybe"
|Kurkot |
| scope="row" |"Miód"
|2014 |Anna Bajorek |Prąd |
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