| Doda | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Dorota Rabczewska |
| Born | February 15, 1984 Ciechanów, Poland |
| Genres | Rock, Pop, Pop-rock |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter |
| Years active |
2000–2007 |
| Labels | Universal Music Poland |
| Website | Official Website |
Dorota Rabczewska (born February 15, 1984), more commonly known as Doda, is a Polish musical artist, among the most successful Polish artists ever in terms of number of prizes won. She was first known as a member of the Polish rock band Virgin. After the group disbanded she continued with a solo career releasing an album in 2007 called Diamond Bitch and another album The Seven Temptations which is due for release in 2011. She was featured on CNN, as the tenth most famous Pole in history.[1] In 2011 Polish magazine Viva! put her among ten most influential women in Poland.[2]
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Doda was born in Ciechanów, Poland. In her youth, she was coached in athletics for four years (long jump, 100 metres). She won the Championships at Voivodeship for 1000 and 600 meters and shot put. She also won bronze in the Polish Championships. She then quit sport for a musical career. Doda started this career as a teenager, at the Buffo Theater in Warsaw. Simultaneously, she took singing lessons from Elżbieta Zapendowska, one of the most famous singing teachers in Poland. She earned popularity due to her participation in the reality show The Bar, where she earned great notoriety for her vulgar vocabulary and wild antics.
After auditioning at the age of 16, Doda won and became the vocalist of the Polish rock band Virgin. In 2002 they made their debut by releasing their first studio album titled Virgin. They released two singles "To Ty" (It's you) and "Mam Tylko Ciebie" (I only have you). To promote the band and the album further, Doda took part in the reality TV series called The Bar. To date the album has sold 13,700 copies.
Two years after their debut, the band released their second album called Bimbo which was released on May 17, 2004. It was the highest-selling album in its first week of release. The first single was Dżaga" which was a hit in Poland. The video also featured Radosław Majdan, Doda's future husband, in which they are seen having sex. They released two other singles "Kolejny Raz" and "Nie Zawiedź Mnie". In the same year Doda joined the largest High IQ society, Mensa International with an IQ of 156. They also embarked on their first tour entitled the Bimbo Tour.
After the line-up change and performance on television shows, the group debuted their next single "Znak Pokoju" at the Sopot International Song Festival. On 17 October 2005 they released their third and final studio album called Ficca, which was promoted by their second tour called Ficca Tour. In December 2005 they released their second single off the album.
In April 2006 Doda was rushed to hospital due to a problem with her intervertebral disc making the band fall into a hiatus for a while. After having complicated spinal surgery she returned to the music scene with a voice role on the Polish version of the film Asterix and the Vikings taking the role of Abba. Later that year, the group released the re-edited version of Ficca featuring a new song called "Szansa", which was inspired by Doda's surgery.
She rejected the proposal to participate in the Polish edition of Dancing with the Stars due to her spinal surgery. The group toured North America, where Doda had to be rushed to hospital a second time due to her spine injury. By the end of the year Doda had terminated her contract with her manager.
On January 1, 2007 Tomasz Lubert, announced that he would finish his involvement with the band, leading the group to be disbanded while Doda continued her career as solo artist.
After appearing and performing several times on television she signed a contract with Universal Music Polska, and released her first solo single "Katharsis". The song was premiered in the TopTrendy festival. On July 14, 2007 the music video was released. Thirteen days later she released her album called Diamond Bitch. To promote the album further she started her first solo tour called Diamond Tour which also toured outside Poland in Germany, United Kingdom and the United States. It went straight to number one in the Polish Album Charts and stayed there for 5 straight weeks. It managed to gain double platinum status. A year later she released her album, and then released a re-edited version of the album which included a new song called "Nie Daj Się", which was later released as a single gaining much airplay in radio stations, topping many of the radio charts. She later released two more singles "Rany" the music video to which was directed by Swedish director, Bo Martin, and the final single called "Dziękuję" (thank you).
Doda won eleven awards at VIVA Comet making her the most successful artist to have won a Comet Award. She won Video of the Year for three straight years and won an additional six awards including, won two times in the category Image of the Year and once for Artist of the Decade. At the MTV Europe Music Awards she won twice in the category Best Polish Act and in 2009 she took second place in the Best European Act. Doda also received a Superjedynka on 2008 National Festival of Polish Song in Opole as the Best Artist.
In an interview in onet.tv she announced that her new album will be released by the summer, while the first single will be released before summer.[3] In her official website it says that she is going to start a new tour called Rock'n'Roll Palace Tour, which will promote her new album. The tour will start when the album will be released and the first city to visit will be Toruń[1]
Doda was born to Wanda and Paweł Rabczewski. She has an older brother, Rafał. In 2003 she met her future husband Polish goalkeeper, Radosław Majdan. He later proposed to her during their vacation in Jerusalem, Israel, and they were married on the 5th of March, 2005. But three years later in May 2008 the couple were divorced. On Majdan's official website he stated that he finished his relationship with Doda.
On May 9, 2009 it became public that she had a relationship with the frontman of the blackened death metal band Behemoth, Adam Darski (aka Nergal).[4] In December 2009, the couple got engaged.[5] As of April 2011, Doda and Nergal have split up.
In May 2010, the Warsaw prosecutor's office charged Doda with the crime of "offending religious sensibilities" for remarking in a year-ago television interview that she believed more in dinosaurs than she did in the Bible because "it is hard to believe in something written by people who drank too much wine and smoked herbal cigarettes."[6] If convicted, she faces up to two years in prison under Poland's blasphemy laws.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2006 | Asterix and the Vikings | Abba | Voice |
| 2008 | Serce na dłoni | Doda | As herself |
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