Anna Maria Jopek (born 14 December 1970) is a Polish vocalist, songwriter, and improviser. She represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, with the song "Ale jestem" and finished 11th out of 25 participating acts; and in 2002, she collaborated on an album with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. She has received numerous awards for her music, including Michel Legrand's Personal Award in Vitebsk in 1994, as well as all of the awards for music in Poland, together with gold and platinum records.

Biography

She is the daughter of Mazowsze singer Stanisław Jopek (1935–2006), known as the "First Coachman of Poland" for his signature song "Furman" (The Coachman), and former Mazowsze dancer Maria Stankiewicz. Her 1999 Christmas album, Dzisiaj z Betleyem, features two duets with her father. Anna Maria's sister, Patrycja is a violinist.

In Poland, she has sung with Marek Grechuta, Jeremi Przybora and Wojciech Młynarski. Abroad, she has performed with Pat Metheny, Youssu'n Dour, Bobby McFerrin, Ivan Linz, Branford Marsalis, Nigel Kennedy, Richard Bona, Oscar Castro-Neves, Makoto Ozone and Gonzalo Rubalcaba among others. In 2017, Jopek sang a duet with Sting on a New Year's TV program.

Jopek has performed at the world's leading concert venues such as Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Royal Festival Hall, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Blue Note Tokyo, The Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv or Hamer Hall in Melbourne. She has recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World studio, Abbey Road in London, and Power Station in New York.

In 2015, she received the Knight's Cross Order of Polonia Restituta conferred by President Bronisław Komorowski for promoting Polish art worldwide.

In 2019, Jopek released a new album "Ulotne" (Elusive) with Branford Marsalis.

Currently, she is working on a new concert project titled "Przestworza" (The Expanses). In August 2021, she will continue this tour at Poland's most popular concert venues.

Over the past few years, Jopek has been experimenting with various stage forms. She has performed in "Czas Kobiety" (A Woman's Time), a play staged at Teatr Stary in Lublin, directed by the legend of Polish theatre – professor Leszek Mądzik. The music was written by Jopek and Robert Kubiszyn. In 2014, she accepted Song of the Goat Theatre's invitation to perform in an oratory "Return to the Voice". They held a series of performances over a month as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she was noticed by Michael Hirst, creator of HISTORY's flagship series Vikings. The producers offered her to record a song to be featured in the show.

Discography

Solo albums

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! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:15em;"| Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Album details

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! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Sales

! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Certifications

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! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" |POL<br />

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! scope="row" |Ale jestem

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  • Released: 22 November 1997
  • Label: Mercury/PolyGram Poland
  • Formats: CD

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  • POL: 50,000+

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  • POL: Gold

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! scope="row" |Szeptem

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  • Released: 6 June 1998
  • Label: Mercury/PolyGram Poland
  • Formats: CD

|| 38

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  • POL: 200,000+

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! scope="row" |Jasnosłyszenie

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  • Released: 26 March 1999
  • Label: Mercury/PolyGram Poland
  • Formats: CD

|| –

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  • POL: 50,000+
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD

|| –

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! scope="row" |Bosa

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  • Released: 14 September 2000
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD, digital download

|| 3

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  • POL: 50,000+
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD

|| 1

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  • POL: 35,000+

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  • POL: Gold
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD, digital download

|| 3

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! scope="row" |Niebo

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  • Released: 24 October 2005
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital download

|| 2

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|-

! scope="row" |ID

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  • Released: 11 May 2007
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD, digital download

|| 1

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  • POL: 30,000+
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD, digital download

|| 5

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  • POL: 30,000+

|| 14

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  • POL: 15,000+
  • Label: Warner Music Poland
  • Formats: CD, digital download

|| 1

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  • POL: 70,000+

|| 17

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  • POL: 30,000+

|| —

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  • POL: 60,000+

|-

! scope="row" |Ulotne (with Branford Marsalis)

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  • Released: 14 December 2018
  • Label: Anna Maria Jopek Music AMJ002
  • Formats: album

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  • POL: 30,000+

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| colspan="20" style="font-size:90%" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

|}

Live albums

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! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" |POL<br />

|| 2

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  • POL: 35,000+
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD, digital download

|| 4

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  • POL: 15,000+
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD (Box set)

|| 47

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|-

! scope="row" |Lustra

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  • Released: 14 October 2011
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: CD (Box set)

|| 12

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| colspan="20" style="font-size:90%" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

|}

Video albums

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! scope="col" | Album details

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! scope="col" | Certifications

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! scope="row" |Farat

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  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Universal Music Poland
  • Formats: DVD

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  • POL: 10,000+

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Music videos

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! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Directed

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! scope="row" |"Inna"

|1995

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! scope="row" |"Ale jestem"

|1996

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! scope="row" |"Joszko Broda"

|rowspan="2"| 1997

| Dariusz Błaszczyk

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! scope="row" |"Nie przychodzisz mi do głowy"

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! scope="row" |"Ja wysiadam"

|rowspan="3"| 1999

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! scope="row" |"Na całej połaci śnieg"

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! scope="row" |"Wspomnienie" with Michał Żebrowski

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! scope="row" |"Szepty i łzy"

|2000

|Bolesław Pawica, Jarek Szoda

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! scope="row" |"Na dłoni"

|rowspan="2"| 2002

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! scope="row" |"I pozostanie tajemnicą"

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! scope="row" |"Cichy zapada zmrok"

|rowspan="2"| 2003

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! scope="row" |"Możliwe"

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! scope="row" |"Tam, gdzie nie sięga wzrok"

|2004

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! scope="row" |"Don't Speak"

|rowspan="2"| 2005

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! scope="row" |"Gdy mówią mi"

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! scope="row" |"Sypka Warszawa"

|2009

| Adrian Panek

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References

  • Profile of Anna Maria Jopek at Culture.pl