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Basia: The Roxy, Hollywood, CA

Dave DiMartino, Billboard, 23 July 1988

PERSEVERANCE IS paying off for Basia Trzetrzelewska, despite the perpetual handicaps she endures. First she sang with Matt Bianco, an act that featured no one bearing that name; now as a solo artist, she uses a professional name no one ever really thinks they're pronouncing correctly. To make matters worse, the credits on the back of her Epic debut album, Time And Tide, actually include a phonetic translation of her name. A good thing, too — she's getting heavy airplay on Wave-type radio stations that aren't quite so heavy on artist identification.

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