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Isis Gee (real name Tamara Gołębiowska, on October 11, 1972 in Seattle) is an American Polish pop singer, songwriter, and composer.
Biography
Isis was born in America as Tamara Diane Wimer and won a talent Competition in Los Angeles, California at the age of 17. She featured in two minor jazz albums. She got a job in asia as a backing singer with a jazz trio performing with McCoy Tyner (John Coltrane, Stanley Clarke, Bill Evans). After moving to Los Angeles, Isis worked with song writer Steve Dorff. In 2004 she married Adam Gołębiowski and moved to Warsaw, Poland.
Her solo career began when she arrived in Poland with her first debut album entitled Hidden Treasure in 2007. Simon Gogerly assisted and mixed the entire Hidden Treasure album, as well as her latest single For Life. Isis appointed KK to co-produce a couple of her tracks on the album. The Hidden Treasure album was Mastered by Tim Young at Metropolis Studios London, UK.
The first video Hidden Treasure was shot in the Isis Temple of Philae in Aswan, Egypt and Nubian village in Sudan.
In 2007 Isis worked with German DJ Schiller (Christopher von Deylen). Schiller and Isis co-wrote the song Fate. Isis is featured singing Fate on Schiller’s new album "Sensucht".
In 2007 Isis Gee took part in Taniec z Gwiazdami (Dancing with the stars) on TVN.
Eurovision Song Contest
| For Life | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Eurovision Song Contest 2008 entry | |
| Country | Poland |
| Artist(s) | Isis Gee |
| Languages | English |
| Composer(s) | Isis Gee |
| Lyricist(s) | Isis Gee |
Isis Gee's song For Life was chosen from among over one hundred songs as one of twelve entries to participate in Piosenka dla Europy, the Polish national final for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. During the live broadcast on 23 February 2008, her entry was selected to represent Poland at Eurovision, topping both the jury vote and the public vote.
Isis has sparked controversy on Polish Talk Radioafter negative media reviews of her performances in general. Although, selected as a finalist due to block voting from Eastern Europe her performance during the Eurovision semi-final was lacklustre and flat as she is used to singing to a backing track. On some occasions she was seen to fumble words in the song - receiving a severe panning from BBC commentators during her performance on the BBC3 telecast on 20th May 2008. At various times she was referred to as; a scary American, a horse and a fake tan cyborg by host Paddy O'Connell who said she was so desperate for fame she moved to Poland during the telecast on BBC3.
Controversy
Isis has been the subject of a number of controversies in Poland - from manipulating YouTube by generating false comments to gain publicity to accusations from a famous radio DJ that she was born a man.
Discography
Albums
| Released | Album | Poland |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Hidden Treasure | - |
Singles
| Year | Title | Album | Charts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL | |||||
| 2007 | "Hidden Treasure" | Hidden Treasure | 26 | ||
| "What You See" | 56 | ||||
| 2008 | "For Life" | - | 45 | ||
| "Fate (ft. Schiller) | Sehnsucht | - | |||