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Urszula Dudziak

Jazz vocalist Urzula Duziak was born on October 22, 1943, in Straconka, Poland (then German-occupied Poland). Initially studying piano, but after listening to Ella Fitzgerald in the late 1950s, she turned to singing. By the early 1960s, she had become one of the most popular jazz vocalists in Poland. Her five-octave range and use of wordless vocalizing caught the attention of the international jazz scene as well. In 1967, she married acclaimed Polish violinist Michal Urbaniak and toured internationally. The couple relocated to New York City in the 1970s. Her catalog includes crit...