Competition Eurovision It has aroused considerable emotions in Poland since 1994, when we first sent our representative to him. Edyta Górniak with the song “It's not me” was almost a hair from winning then – she sang second place. Also the second place – only from the end – she took in 2008 Isis Gee. The artist performing the song “For Life” not only failed, but also aroused a number of controversy. Not only because of her origin – she was born in America, and she was associated with Poland thanks to her husband – but also appearance. The statement of the famous journalist Robert Leszczyński meant that the country was boiling. And when ISIS left Poland and hearing after her was lost, many wondered what happened to the artist and how her career continued.
A wonderful child
The artist known as ISIS Gee or Tamara Gee was born on October 11, 1972 in Seattle as Tamara Diane Wimer. She has Polish roots – her grandmother from her father was born on the Vistula. Tamara quickly began to show musical talent – so big that she began to be called a wonderful child. Already the age of five years Miss Wimer began to perform on stage and succeed. And as an eight -year -old she spent summer, traveling around the United States and singing with a girlish choir. She also took part in numerous competitions, and won invested in voice emissions and stage movement. These, in turn, quickly brought the desired results. Teenage Tamara performed before the audience of many thousands at many concerts, and the age of 17 won the International Talent Competition in Los Angeles. Two years later, her songs were on two jazz albums. The young artist also took part in a one and a half year concert tour of the Asia legendary singer Tony Bennett.
Tamara was lucky to cooperate with big names – she also performed with a recognized jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, known from work with John Coltran. Over time, she decided to move to Los Angeles, where she came under the wings of famous producers – such as Steve Dorff, who wrote hits the greatest divisions – including Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion or Whitney Houston. And also KK, who has been working with such stars as Britney Spears, Nelly Furtado or Dido. At that time, only a step away from the release of the debut album. The album entitled “Hidden Treasure” was released in 2007. Despite the support of big names, the album was moderate. It is worth noting that Tamara promoted him outside the USA – in Poland, where, together with her husband and at the same time her manager, Andrzej Gołębiowski moved in 2004.
Who is Isis Gee?
An element of the “Hidden Treasure” promotion in Poland was Tamara's participation in the program “Dancing with the Stars”. The artist already took part in the dance show under the pseudonym ISIS Gee, and her partner was her partner who died in 2021 in Żora Koroliow. The couple danced the fifth place in the program. The media, however, quickly came to the information that the artist presented as the “American star” is just starting her adventure with show business, and her album was released only in Poland. On the day of the premiere of the debut clip of ISIS, her YouTube channel was subscribed only by ten viewers whose accounts were created only three days after the foundation of the ISIS channel. The information that “Hidden Treasure” was to be in parallel with Poland released on the British market also turned out to be untrue.
Rumors about ISIS career are not the end of the controversy that the singer had to face. When it turned out that she would represent Poland during the 53rd Eurovision Competition in Belgrade, a rumor appeared that ISIS would be born a man. The report quickly began to live his own life, and one of the first to duplicate them was a well -known journalist, juror of the “Idol” program – Robert Leszczyński. “The past of this 36-year-old from Seattle begins in 2004, when she moves to Warsaw. Although she was supposedly artistically, her story is like a white card since childhood-no one has ever heard in the USA about such a singer. As the rumor says, or rather the secret of the polyszynela-the reason may be that such a woman has never been before. Intuition, Poland, considered in the West as a homophobe country, sends a transsexual to Eurovision, “Robert Leszczyński wrote in the weekly” Wprost “.
The journalist caused a powerful storm with his words, which found her finale in court. First, however, the ISIS label issued a statement in which it wrote: “These materials were prepared in violation of the elementary principles of the journalistic workshop, because the information contained in the articles is unilateral, false and offensive, and also cause a wave of aggression and extremely offensive and vulgar comments.” Leszczyński, however, went in a bit – in an interview with “Super Express” he said: “I just said loudly about what everyone has known for two years. I repeated what my friends from ISIS, also stylists and doctors told me.” “The fact that someone is a homosexual or transsexual is the same feature as my left -handedness. I have many friends among homosexuals. ISIS must use his sexuality at all. She would gain 5-10 percent of a faithful gay audience.
What happened to ISIS?
Despite the really beautiful voice, during the Eurovision competition ISIS suffered a terrible defeat – she took second place from the end. After returning to Poland, she won in court with Leszczyński – the journalist had to post an official apology in “Wprost” and pay PLN 100,000 compensation and return the costs of the trial to nine thousand zlotys. “Distressing the rumor about the change of sex of the singer, unlawfully and intentional fault they violated her personal rights such as dignity and the right to privacy. The plaintiff's intimate zone became the subject of mockery. (…) disseminating the rumor, the defendants should take into account the consequences” – we read in the justification of the judgment. Tamara herself only referred to the matter many years later in the program “Good morning Tvn“” Some tried to gain publicity using me. Today I am not entrusting. I am a stronger person, if I was like that at the time, I would probably deal with it differently. Either way, it didn't leave me any lasting damage, “the singer confessed.
Perhaps it was a defeat at Eurovision, or rather all the controversy meant that the singer decided to leave Poland. Almost from day to day the artist literally collapsed underground. Many wondered what happened to ISIS? Or Tamara, as he prefers to be called today. On her Instagram profile, the star writes about herself that she is a “singer, composer, producer, model, as well as a creative director and luxury ambassador cosmetics' Maryla Rodowicz. According to the reports at the time, Tamara was to be part of the staff of the musical about the life of Maryla. But will the singer still decide to reactivate her career in Poland? Perhaps, despite the lack of success during Eurovision, would she have a chance for a career on our music market? Or rather she would fall victim to the internet hate again, because her Instagram photos are widely commented on.