Julia Marcell

Julia Marcell, born Julia Górniewicz, is a Polish singer, pianist, songwriter and composer who has built her career in a space that reaches beyond a simple mainstream-versus-alternative divide. She was born in Olsztyn and later became closely associated with Berlin, a move that helped shape the international dimension of her recording and touring path. She began writing songs as a teenager, but her earliest safely confirmed recording debut is the EP “Storm,” released in 2007. One of the defining stories of her early career is that she raised 50,000 dollars online to fund a full-length album, which allowed her to grow on unusually independent terms rather than following a standard label-driven route into the...