Natalia Szroeder

Biography

Szroeder was born on 20 April 1995 in Bytów. She grew up in the Pomeranian village of Parchowo in a musically inclined family. Her mother, Joanna, is a singer for the folk band Modraki, which was founded by her grandfather Waldemar Kapiszka. Three of her siblings were part of the Rusland Trio. Her father Jaromir was the founder of the Dialogus theater, in 2004/2005. In childhood, Szroeder appeared in the TVP1 program, Od przedszkola do Opola.

In 2011, she was a part of an episode of Szansa na sukces. She sang the song "Cicha woda" by Maryla Rodowicz. On March 24, 2012, she released a video on YouTube for the song "Potrzebny je drech" (in the Kashubian language), of which she wrote Weronika Korthals, as advised by Tomasz Fopke. In July of that year, she released their debut single Jane. The music and the lyrics were written by Marek Kościkiewicz, a former member of De Mono. In the same year, she teamed up with rapper Liber, with whom she recorded the song Wszystkiego na raz. The composition was ranked 5th in AirPlay - To, and also hit the charts of radio stations such as RMF FM and Radio Zet. The song "Wszystkiego na raz" was the second single released in May of the same year in the Liber album Duety. The album also shared the second track of the two, Nie patrzę w dół, whose music video was produced by Cam-L Studio DL Promotion. On 3 August of that year, Szroeder performed a duet with Liber at the gala Eska Music Awards 2013 gala, during which, they were nominated for Best Debut. In the same month, Szroeder appeared on the Russian Song Festival in Zielona Góra, where she performed the song "Kukuszka" from the repertoire of Zemfira. On 2 December 2013, she released her second single hit, Tęczowy.

On 11 February 2014, she released her third single "Nie pytaj jak (Young Stars Festival)". In April, she appeared alongside Mezo and Dawid Kwiatkowski at the Young Stars Festival 2014, at the HWS Arena in Poznań. In June of that year, she took part in a concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the careers of Jacek Cygan and Ryszard Rynkowski, which took place in the framework of LI Festival of Polish Songs in Opole. During the concert, she sang the song "Za młodzi, za starzy", in a duet with Cygan. In June, she took part in Carpathia Festival 2014, organized in Rzeszów. On 27 July 2014, during a concert at Lata ZET i Dwójki in Toruń, together with Liber, she won in the category of Best Performance for the performance of the song Nie patrzę w dół. In the same year, on 24 August, they released their first single, Teraz ty, which heralds the two as a duo.

In autumn 2015, Szroeder took part in the fourth edition of the entertainment show Twoja twarz brzmi znajomo on TV Polsat, where she took seventh place. In the fifth episode, she sung the Whitney Houston's hit "I Have Nothing", for which she won first place and won 10 thousand PLN, which she allocated to the Słoneczko Foundation. Shortly after the episode of her performance, a journalist from the British newspaper The Mirror wrote an article about it.

On 9 February 2016, Szroeder confirmed on the radio show RMF FM that she would attempt to represent Poland via a national final for the 61st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 with the song Lustra. She had been a jury member for Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. A few days later, she was on the list of artists qualified for the final. She got 5th place with 4.20% of the votes.

Inspirations

Among her inspirations, Szroeder mentions above all Michael Jackson. She is also inspired by the music of artists such as Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

Discography