What is "basia"

Barbara "Basia" Trzetrzelewska (born September 30, 1954) is a Polish singer-songwriter and record producer. She established a successful international recording career featuring characteristically Latin-flavoured jazz-pop crossover songs during the late 1980s and early 1990s and the late 2000s and 2010s, particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Japan. She is noted for possessing a wide vocal range, approximately three octaves that span from contralto to soprano tessituras, as well as her singular jazz-influenced stylings and multi-layered harmonies.

Basia is a female first name, diminutive of Barbara. It may refer to:

People:

• Basia A'Hern, Australian actor
• Basia Bulat, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Basia Trzetrzelewska (stage name Basia), Polish jazz singer-songwriter-producer
• Basia, a fictional girl appearing in the Polish National Anthem, Poland Is Not Yet Lost

Places:

• Basia, Pakistan, a small village in Attock District, Punjab
• Basia block, one of the eleven administrative blocks of Gumla district, Jharkhand, India

See also:

• Argument About Basia, a novel by Kornel Makuszyński
• Battle of Basya (Basia) River