Kasia Moś
Kasia Moś will represent Poland in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Flashlight.Kasia was born in 1987 into an artistic family. She is the daughter of Marek Moś, a conductor, violinist, chamber musician and director of the chamber orchestra AUKSO. Joanna, Kasia's mother, is also a musician and plays the violin. Kasia's brother, Mateusz, is a violinist and composer and produced her debut album.
Kasia learned to play the cello and piano at school. In 2009 she graduated from university where she studied music. The singer has collaborated with fellow artists in Poland including Paweł Mykietyn where she performed on his album, Pasja św. Marka, as well as performing in one of the major parts in his musical Król Lear in Krakow.
More recently Kasia was part of The Pussycat Dolls Burlesque Review show and was a finalist in the third edition of the programme Must Be The Music. Kasia has also performed at several festivals including Spring Break, Carpathie Festival, Top Trendy and Woodstock to name just a few.
Kasia released her debut album, Inspination, in 2015. The album can be described as a mix of electronic and soul with elements of pop music. She has participated in the Polish selection for the Eurovision Song Contest three times, in 2006 with the song I Wanna Know, in 2016 with Addiction and finally in 2017 with Flashlight. Kasia is currently working on her new album.
About the song writers & composers
Rickard Bonde is one of the co-owners of the Mega Music High School in Sweden, founded in 2000. He has a Master of Arts in education and has been working as a teacher for 10 years and as a musician professionally for 15 years. He has performed more than 1500 shows as a soloist as well as and as a musician for different artists.
Rickard has played as a session musician with Swedish artists such as Paulo Mendonca, Linda Bengtzing, Nisse Hellberg, Ebbot (Soundtrack of our lives), Dennis Camitz, Pontus Assarson, Maja Francis, Lilly Ahlberg, Jay Smith (Idol winner), Tomas Ledin, Anette Olzon (Nightwish) and Conny Blom. He also went on tour in Sweden with some American artists, Larry Cole, BB Cunningham, James Burton and James Lott.
Rickard regularly travels and collaborates with songwriters and artists all over the world. Rickard is currently working with a broad range of international artists signed to major labels and some up and coming new acts.
Pete Barringer is one third of UK-based writing, production and publishing team DWB. He is a multi talented writer and producer , writing and producing many hits including the Czech entry for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest!