Virgin (band)

Virgin
Concert in Rzeszów (November 2006)
Background information
Origin	Warsaw, Poland
Genres	Pop Rock
Years active	2000–2007
Labels	Universal Music
Members	Dorota Rabczewska Tomasz Lubert

Virgin is a Polish pop rock band created in 2000 and suspended in 2007. Its lead singer was Dorota Rabczewska.

History

Virgin (2000–2004)

The first album sold in edition over 13000 copies entitled Virgin. The songs on this disc were written by Doda, Andrzej Mogielnicki, Anja Orthodox and Asia Prykowska. After the release of this debut disc it was nominated for a Fryderyk in the category of New Face of Music 2002, the group intensively gave concerts, while working on their second disc. This album showed the group's rock side and its musical aspirations. This album had 16 songs. Besides, it included Madonna cover "Material Girl". Whilst promoting this album, Doda took part in the reality TV show broadcast on Polsat, called Bar.

Bimbo (2004–2005)

May 2004 was when the second album titled Bimbo was released. The title of this album signifies in American slang “slut”. Dorota chose this title to caution "All the silly people, who think her as a whore". On the new CD, eleven of her compositions can be found. The words for two of the songs, "Bar" and "Ulica", were written by Anja Orthodox. The singles released from this CD were "Dżaga", "Kolejny raz" and "Nie zawiedź mnie". Also on this CD was a guest appearance in the song "Nie Oceniać Jej" by Arkadiusz “Arekcore” Stępień, who is a guitarist and vocalist from the group Ametria.

For "Dżaga" there were two versions of the video clip (one of them includes uncensored photos). One of main roles in this clip was played by Radosław Majdan, goalkeeper of club Wisła Kraków. Music on Bimbo was a continuation of the themes of the first album. It was melodious rock still, it does not scant in which original sharp equal riff, as well as quiet, romantic ballads.

In 2004, the group parted with its bass player Krzysztof Najman, (former husband of Anja Orthodox, vocalist of gothic rock band Closterkeller) and drummer Piotr "Posejdon" Pawłowski. As a result of several months of searching and auditions, the place of Krzysztof Najmana was taken by bass player Łukasz Damm from Wrocław, and Peter Pawłowski was substituted by percussionist Pitr Matsiak from Radom.

Ficca (2005–2007)

The new CD, Ficca, was released on 24 October 2005 with these new musicians. The title comes from Italian language word meaning “sheath”. With this CD is enclosed an unpublished photo session of the musicians.

The first single from this album was "Znak Pokoju", and it won the Słowika Publiczności at the 42. Sopot International Song Festival in 2005, which is voted by the public. This song wades is homage for Pope John Paul II, and deviates from the group's previous rock tone to a more melodious pop ballad. The second single from this CD was "2 Bajki", which successfully stayed in the charts for a long time. The next single was "Szansa", which was composed specially for the Festival in Opole.

On the 23 January 2006, the second edition of the Ficca album was released, which featured short clips recorded by Doda and her husband from their vacation as well as the music videos to both "Znak pokoju" and "2 bajki".

At the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole 2006, the group received a Superjedynka in category of best POP CD, and also performed the new song "Szansa" in the premiere concert, which they won the audience vote.

On 14 June, the third edition (second re-edition) of the CD was published in a maxi version. For this edition, the addition included the song "Szansa" and "Nie zawiedź mnie" (live version) as well as karaoke versions of "Znak pokoju" i "Szansa". A special recording taken during the Opole Festival and another vacation clip is also added to this version of the CD.

On 1 January 2007, on the official website of the band a statement from Tomasz Lubert appeared which said that he is finishing his involvement with the group Virgin. Dorota Rabczewska decide continue career as soloist.

Albums

Chart statistics	Singles
Virgin. 1st Studio album. Released: 2002. Poland peak position: No.31 Poland certification: - Poland sales: 13,000	"To Ty" "Mam Tylko Ciebie" "Nie Złość Dody"
Bimbo 2nd Studio album. Released: 2004. Poland peak position: No.1 Poland certification: Gold Poland sales: 32,150	"Dżaga" "Kolejny Raz" "Nie Zawiedź Mnie" "Piekarnia"
Ficca 3rd studio album Released: 2005 Poland peak position: No. 1 Poland certification: 2× Platinum Poland sales: 90,500	"Znak Pokoju" "2 Bajki" "Szansa" "Dezyda" "Opowiem Ci" "Dla R. (Nieważne dziś jest)" "Inni Przyjaciele"

Singles

Year	Title	Peak positions
		POL	EUR	DEU
2002	"To Ty"	1	20	9
	"Mam Tylko Ciebie"	1	7	2
2003	"Nie Złość Dody"	21	-	-
2004	"Dżaga"	1	2	1
	"Kolejny Raz"	1	11	-
	"Nie Zawiedź Mnie"	1	9	7
2005	"Piekarnia"	97	-	-
	"Znak Pokoju"	1	1	6
	"2 Bajki"	1	3	2
2006	"Szansa"	1	1	1
	"Dezyda"	1	4	13
	"Opowiem Ci"	41	-	-
	"Dla R. (Nieważne dziś jest)"	5	91	179
	"Inni Przyjaciele"	1	43	13