Daria Barbara Kaczmarek (née Zawiałow, pronounced: [zaˈvjawɔf]; born August 18, 1992), known professionally as Daria Zawiałow, is a Polish singer-songwriter, composer, and a music journalist. She won the "Debuts" competition at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole in 2009. She received 7 Fryderyk Awards conferred by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. In 2021, she was awarded the Best Polish Act at the 2021 MTV Europe Music Awards.
She was born on 18 August 1992 in Koszalin in the north of Poland where she grew up.[1] In 2007, she won the Tukan Junior Award at the Children's Competition of Dramatic Interpretation of Song in Wrocław.[2] In 2008, she moved to Warsaw in oder to attend a music high school.[1] She graduated from the John III Sobieski High School No. 75. in Warsaw.[3] In 2009, she won the Szansa na Sukces music talent show broadcast on TVP2 channel.[4] This enabled her to take part in the "Debuts" competition at the 46th edition of the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole where she performed Kasia Nosowska's song "Era retuszera" and ultimately won the 1st Prize.[5] She subsequently won an audition for a backing vocalist for Maryla Rodowicz. She performed at Rodowicz concerts for the next two years.[6] In 2011, Zawiałow took part in the Mam talent show, the Polish version of the Got Talent series, where she reached the semifinal.[7]
𝗗𝗭𝗜𝗘𝗪𝗖𝗭𝗬𝗡𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗣
