'No one is rich enough to make it without a smile and no one is poor enough to be unable to give a smile to the others' - this is the motto of an unusual lady, everybody's darlin' on the Country Music scene in Poland

Alicja Boncol

Alicja (born in the middle of the year and in the middle of the month almost 18 years ago) and her early band, Fair Play, formed in 1995 in Silesia, emerged in May'95 in Warsaw at a competition which they won by an unanimous verdict of a jury, thus making their way to a prestigious Country Picnic, an international festival held annually in MrĽgowo, a town nicknamed 'Polish Nashville' due to its status of the Capital of Country Music in Poland. She has become a regular act there ever since, successfully sharing stage with the likes of Kathy Mattea, Steve Wariner, Anita Cochran, Carlene Carter, Victoria Shaw, BR549, Heather Myles, Danni Leigh, Heidi Hauge and other superstars.

She'd regularly steal the show during the itinerant package tour, 'Country Convoy' in '95 and '96, from the cast of top Polish, European and American artists. So did she wherever she appeared, be it a small club, a tv show or a huge outdoor gig for a crowd of five-to-twenty-five thousand plus. Virtually, she performed at every significant Polish country festival and event.

It was her and her band that have set the trend of a three-piece girl bands (2 years prior to an incredible success of the Dixie Chicks!!!). Her recordings made their way to a number of compilation CDs as well as to her own album 'Country Girl'.

In 1997 she represented Poland at the huge, international festival in Visagino (Lithuania) which resulted in a massive Lithuania tour the following year.

Curious enough, in 1998 Alicja entered the TV competition show, titled 'Be A Star', where she impersonated Cher (!). Needless to say, she left the competition behind and brought the audience nation-wide to their knees.

Alicja Boncol is a record-breaker in Country Music awards field: Best Artist in 2003, Best Female Vocalist in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, Best Performance of a Standard in 1998 and 1999, Best Performance of an Original Song in 2001, Vocal Collaboration with Gail Davies in the song Lovesick blues in 2003.

In May 2001 the original line up of Fair Play disbanded and Alicja formed her own band, with a strong close harmony support from two other beautiful ladies, Kasia Kamiäska and Sonia Kopecka. A month later she received the Golden Truck award for the Best Original Song (co-written by Gabˆoäski Brothers), 'Mam kilometr˘w paranojŠ' and in 2003 for 'Keep your paws off my ass' (lyrics by Lonstar).

In 2002 season she represented Poland at the international Country festival in Czech and Slovakia and in 2003 in Visagino at the biggest, already Xth jubilee Country Festival in Lithuania and in 2004 in Norway at XX Country Festival in Skjaak.

by LONSTAR
alive legend of Polish country music
http://www.polcountry.medianet.pl/lonstar/index.html

There are Stars you wanna spread rumors about and there are the Artist you'd rather t a l k about. There are the chicks discovered and promoted due to their aesthetics and there are women whose only sufficient tools of trade are voice and personality. And there's

Alicja Boncol

Brilliant Star, an object of rumors and sensation and, at the same time, a true Artist, respected by music-biz professionals.

Intriguing beauty, on stage she's a sheer incarnation of hurricane and dynamite; hyper-feminine, she provokes animal instincts among her male fans, yet she's incredibly direct, warm, friendly and blessed with a wild sense of humor, a combination of Dolly Parton, Shania Twain and Tina Turner put together. Which does not mean Alicja Boncol imitates anybody!

Sure, her 'school' were the recordings of the great American Country singers to whom she owes her status of Poland's most s t y l i s h performer of the genre. But she remains h e r s e l f after all. Every song she sings, be it an original stuff or a standard famed by earlier renditions, she colors with her own charisma, energy and feeling.

And there's her VOICE: crystal-clear, resonant, strong, spacy, pitch-perfect and of a vast range; road-tested in a wide spectrum of styles, from country classics, to sensual ballads to a rapacious, rocking 'rough edge'.

Sometimes they say of such person that she's got 'that thing'. In Alicja's case however, it would be a serious understatement. Because she's got e v e r y t h i n g.

It's almost unjust!

Contact:
ala.boncol@interia.pl
www.polcountry.medianet.pl/ala
tel.: ++48 32 22 88 401
349 14 25
mob.: ++48 501 809 486