Isis Gee (real name Tamara
Golebiowska) was born in Seattle, Washington
in the USA on October 11th 1972 and she started singing and performing at the
age of five. She began taking private singing
lessons and performing classical, pop,
R&B, jazz, broadway and country music as a
young girl. This led to her being featured
singing with various bands, choirs and singing
groups with which she traveled and performed
extensively. Live Theatre was also a huge
passion for Isis, and she spent her childhood
years participating in various live musicals.
By the time she was 12 years old, she was
earning money as a professional singer. Later
in her adolescence, Isis won numerous singing
competitions including winning an
international talent competition in Los
Angeles, California when she was 17 years old.
The same year, she won a beauty and
scholarship pageant, a preliminary to the Miss
America pageant.
Isis was no
stranger to the stage and throughout the years
was also singing in various large arenas for
crowds of up to 65,000 people. At the age of
19, she was featured on two jazz albums, was
the opening act for the legendary Toni
Bennett, began touring throughout Asia as the
featured vocalist with a jazz trio, as well as
finding herself performing with McCoy Tyner
(John Coltrane, Stanley Clarke, Bill Evans).
After moving to Los Angeles, Isis worked with
famous song writers such as Steve Dorff who
has written, arranged and produced hit songs
for artists like Barbara Streisand, Celine
Dion, Whitney Houston and countless others. In
2004 Isis moved from the United States to live
in Poland with her husband.
Isis was
always intrigued with Poland, as she grew up
knowing that her father's mother was Polish
and that she had Polish roots. Isis feels
incredibly grateful to represent Poland at
Eurovision and she says: "this truly
changed her life on every level." In
2007, she recorded her debut album entitled
"Hidden Treasure". The music
industry was quickly captivated by her
abilities both creatively and technically. She
is said to be one of the very first women in
the business to fully compose, arrange,
engineer and produce all the music by herself.
The album reached #3 in the Polish charts.
In the past
year, Isis has worked extensively with some of
the world's key players in the music business;
KK (Sting, Bjork, Dido, Britney Spears, etc.),
Simon Gogerly who is the 2006 Grammy Award
winning mixer who has worked with acts like U2
and
Elton John and
finally Tim Young from the Metropolis Studios
(Madonna, David Bowie Massive Attack, Coldplay).
The music industry top
representatives often describe Isis as a mix
of Celine Dion and Lara Fabian, meeting with
an edgy Sade. She aspires to touch people's
hearts and minds through her music, and to
truly make a positive difference in our world
and communities. In 2007 Isis was invited to
work with the famous German DJ Schiller
(Christopher von Deylen) who has sold over a
million albums. Schiller and Isis co-wrote the
song "Fate" that Isis sings on
Schiller’s new album.
The big
ballad "For Life" may be what many
people consider to be a typical Eurovision
ballad, but the song is making little impact
on fan polls and bookmakerrs consider it to be
in the shake-up for qualification for the
final, without actually including it in the
Top 10.
