Stanisława Nowicka

Stanisława Nowicka
Nowicka as Miss Zakopane 1931
Born	(1905-03-08)March 8, 1905
Died	October 24, 1990(1990-10-24) (aged 85)
Other names	Sylwia Nowicka, Stanisława Sowińska, Stacha Nowicka
Occupation(s)	singer, dancer, medium
Known for	tango songs

Stanisława Nowicka (8 March 1905, in Warsaw – 24 October 1990, in York, New York) was a Polish dancer and singer, known as the "Queen of Tango".

Life

Nowicka studied in Grand Theatre, Warsaw, debuting as a dancer in 1915. In 1916 she and Pola Negri danced in "Casino" theatre in Łódź. She debuted as a singer in 1920, and in the same year performed as a singer together with Karol Hanusz.

In 1927 she started working in „Nowe Perskie Oko”, then "Morskie Oko", and then „Wesołe oko” cabaret. In 1929 she started recording songs for Syrena Rekord. The same year he gave Jerzy Petersburski's famous Tango Milonga (known in Europe as Oh Donna Clara) its debut in the Morskie Oko cabaret. Other songs she covered included tangos: „I tak mi ciebie żal”, „Nie odchodź ode mnie”, „Za dawno za dobrze się znamy”,and a popular song Chodź na Pragę for a revue Uśmiech Warszawy (1930). She performed as an actress and singer in Rycerze mroku (1932), her only film credit. Late 1934(?) or in 1936 the Polish daily Slowo Polskie sent her to New York as correspondent; she never returned. She ran a "Polish hour" in Radio Chicago, did some translation work and continued performing as a singer.

She was a spiritist and was considered a medium by many; she had a clairvoyance studio in Yorktown on Gomer Street, was active in the Theosophical Society in America. She used her medium skills by giving Aleksander Janta-Połczyński a diagnosis for his throat illness that supposedly came from "pre-World War One Greater Poland man" and by taking care of Jan Lechoń, who valued her spiritist prognoses and "Polish atmosphere" of her household.

She died in Yorktown in 1990, and has a symbolic grave on Bródno Cemetery in Warsaw.