Magda Piskorczyk is a Polish singer and instrumentalist. She plays acoustic, electric and bass guitars, as well as percussion instruments. She mainly performs music rooted in African traditions. A composer and musical arranger, she was a guest singer at many international festivals, among others in Taiwan, Germany, Sweden, Norway, England, Hungary and France. She is a member of the ZPAV ZPAV Academy of Phonography. She conducts music workshops according to her own copyright program, including the Blues on Bobr. The result of such workshops in Warsaw OKO was released in 2012 as a CD "Magda Piskorczyk Masterclass". Magda Piskorczyk is the author of the Blues Traveling studio album recorded with Michał Urbaniak, the album "Magda Live" which is a recording of her concert from Radio Gdansk, the disc "Live at Satyrblues" recorded with Slidin 'Slim from Sweden, a double album "Afro Groove" commemorating a tour with Billy Gibson from Memphis and Gospel music study album "Mahalia". "Magda Live", "Afro Groove" and "Mahalia" were nominated for the Fryderyk Prize for the Album of the Year. She has twice been a semi-finalist at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN, in the USA. She has been selected seven times as Vocalist of the Year (2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013) by readers of the "Twój Blues" magazine. In May 2008 Magda Piskorczyk, as one of the first two performers, played at the Aleja Star of the Polish Blues in Slawa near Zielona Góra. She has been referred to as the "black voice in a white costume" after such a review of a concert in France ("Brillante chanteuse la voix noire et au costume blanc"). Magda Piskorczyk cooperates, records or performs with other bands, including Blues Flowers, Engerling and Konoba. She has performed with many well-known musicians, including Wojciech Karolak, Leszek Winder, Jerzy Styczynski, Leszek Cichoński, Bob Margolyn, Billy Gibson, Seckou Keita, Rita Engedalen, Bob Brozman, Greg Szłapczyński and Slidin 'Slim. Music Piskorczyk's music includes her own arrangements of standards from the soul, blues, funk, rock, jazz and gospel music idioms, as well as her own compositions inspired by these trends. Jan Chojnacki stated that "her music is original but not surprising, true to roots, yet contemporary, very thrifty in form and full of emotion". Gospel music is one of Magda's greatest musical loves. Among the performers of this genre, Magda most appreciates the work of Mahalia Jackson. She was amongst