TORONTO, ON. (Top40 Charts/
Basia Lyjak Official Website) - Rock n' roll singer-songwriter
Basia Lyjak has a busy summer ahead, kicking off with her third invitation to play Toronto's North By Northeast music and film festival! The Hard Rock Cafe are inviting
Basia to play their central Yonge and Dundas
Square location (where NXNE headquarters for the week are located) for the third time in a year. After a hugely successful NXNE show there last year and a headlining slot at their annual and international PINKTOBER breast cancer awareness benefit,
Basia can't wait to play the venue again!
Having just released a video at Canadian Music Week for her single "Don't Talk," co-written with Spring Awakening's Kyle Riabko, Basia is gearing up to release her next single, "What It Feels Like," at NXNE, a song also co-written with Kyle and recorded and produced by Brian Moncarz (.moneen.) at his Rattlebox Studios, co-owned by Tool producer David Bottrill.
Stay up to date with Basia's YouTube channel (www.YouTube.com/BasiaLyjak), where current interviews, live footage, behind the scenes clips and more are regularly posted! Up now is www.Conceptual.tv's reality trailer, showcasing a day in her life from cleaning toilets through to interviews, photo shoots and her CMW showcase. Coming soon: interviews with The Naked News and a performance on www.ToroMagazine.com! UCS's March09 interview with Basis is up too: www.unchartedsounds.com/video.html
"Some singers were born with the rock'n'roll gene and some were not. The minute Toronto's Basia Lyjak opens her mouth, you know which group she falls into. Lyjak has the kind of voice that would be out of place anywhere but centre stage in front of screaming guitars, big bad bass lines, and pounding drums. Her music is a full-frontal assault on the sense, and she gives no quarter." - Doug Gallant, CM Magazine
You've seen Basia on SUN TV's Canoe Live, OMNI1, Rogers Entertainment and TwentySomethingTV.com; you've heard her all over the internet and on Q107 for her Lee Aaron opening slot and on Y108's "Get Hammered." You've read about her in Canadian Musician Magazine, The Toronto Sun, Metro News, Mississauga News, Uncharted Sounds, Fazer, Spill Magazine, Muzik Movement Newz and more, more, more! So join her and her wicked players Ron Bechard (Edwin, Sin Dealer), Dale Harrison (The Headstones, Alannah Myles), Pat Kelly (Paris Black Band) and Daz Coppins (Sound And Fury) at NXNE, because people have taken notice, and in 2009 it will be impossible to turn away from Basia Lyjak or get her songs out of your head!
