Her name is Barbara Trzetrzelewska (Polish), but she is known professionally as Basia. (BahSha)

I would suspect a lot of peeps on here might not know who she is, but she came out in about 1987, right after I got in the Navy. I somehow found her album, and listened to it often in my off time (which, when you're underway, is far and few between). She was very popular with her first album, Time and Tide, and sold a cool million in the US alone. It was #1 U.S. Top Contemporary Jazz Albums in 1987.

Her first album really evoked a lot of different styles, including jazz, Brazilian, and pop. She had a more upbeat Sade thing happening, coupled with a good dose of some jazzy arrangements, and some late 80's horns and synths. She was really in the same sort of vein that Swing Out Sister was going kind of hand in hand with styles. If Sade and Swing out Sister did a song together, they'd sound like Basia. It's amazing that after all this time, I still have the cassette in the car, as well as the CD in my home.

It's such a sonically beautiful album. London Warsaw New York and The Sweetest Illusion I never heard. I never did get those other albums. I think I was afraid that they wouldn't be as good as her first one. I think I'm ready to make the plunge and listen to them though. She left music in 1998 after a few people close to her died, including her mom. Finally, in 2009 she has a new CD out It's That Girl Again. I'm definitely going to give it some ear time.

Here's "Time and Time"


Here is "Promises". There were two versions of the video. Someone put them side by side in this video:


And here is "New Day For You"

Love that album
I still buy her music but nothing like Time and tide and Matt Bianco's Whose Side Are You On?
That was the 80's

I simply adore this album....