Irena Santor is a retired Polish singer. She was a very popular and prolific in her youth. She spent the first years of her life in Solec Kujawski

Solec Kujawski

Solec Kujawski is a town with 15,505 inhabitants and an area of 176 km², situated 14 kilometres southeast of Bydgoszcz in Poland at . Solec Kujawski belongs to the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship...

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She graduated a Glazier

Glazier

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 Technical and Vocational school in Polanica Zdrój

Polanica Zdrój

Polanica-Zdrój is a town in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.It lies approximately south-west of Kłodzko, and south-west of the regional capital Wrocław...

. She pursued her vocal career afterwards. She was promoted by Zdzisław Górzyński who recommended her to Tadeusz Sygietyński, director and founder of the Mazowsze - Polish State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble in 1951. In 1959 Irena Santor left Mazowsze and started her solo career making first public debut in December that year. She toured many European countries giving numerous performances and earning prestigious prizes. She recorded many hits of that era, composed exclusively for her by such composers like Jerzy Wasowski

Jerzy Wasowski

Jerzy Wasowski is a famous Polish composer, pianist, actor and director. He was the creator of Kabaret Starszych Panów with Jeremi Przybora.Many of his songs were popular. He created about 700 songs altogether.-External links:...

, Wladyslaw Szpilman

Wladyslaw Szpilman

Władysław "Wladek" Szpilman was a Polish-Jewish pianist, composer, and memoirist. Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which is based on his memoir of the same name recounting how he survived the Holocaust...

, Piotr Figiel, Wojciech Karolak

Wojciech Karolak

Wojciech Karolak is a notable Hammond B-3 organ player who refers to himself as "an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician, born by mistake in Middle Europe". He has also played saxophone and piano professionally.In 1958, he started working with the band the 'Jazz Believers' playing alto...

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In 2000 her album Santor Cafe was released, including covers of the greatest world hits of Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach

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, Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

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, and Hubert Giraud

Hubert Giraud

Hubert Yves Adrian Giraud is a French composer and lyricist.Giraud began his career playing the harmonica with Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France. In 1941, he was recruited by Ray Ventura to play the guitar during Ventrua's big band tour of South America...

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She is now retired from the music stage but performs occasionally.
Her greatest hits: Embarras, Powrócisz tu, Tych lat nie odda nikt, Maleńki znak, Na krzywym kole, Kamienne schodki, Odrobinę szczęścia w miłości, Pójde na stare miasto, Warszawa, ja i ty.

Partial discography

• 1961: Rendez-vous z I. Santor
• 1965: Halo Warszawo
• 1966: Piosenki stare jak świat
• 1967: Powrócisz tu
• 1969: Zapamiętaj, że to ja
• 1972: Moja Warszawa
• 1972: Witaj gwiazdko złota
• 1979: Telegram miłości
• 1982: Cdn.
• 1989: Biegnie czas
• 1993: Warszawa, ja i ty
• 2000: Santor Cafe
• 2002: Jeszcze

External links

• Official site.