Carmen Moreno

Carmen Moreno (30 July 1926 – 11 November 2025) was a Polish jazz singer and dancer. She was a pioneering jazz vocalist in the emerging jazz scene of Poland, joining Melomani, the first jazz group in Poland, in 1951 and then performing with 's jazz orchestra. She joined , performing with them in 1956 at the Congress Hall in Warsaw and on tour in the Soviet Union. She toured in Europe with who became her husband in 1967. They moved to Scandinavia and performed as artists on luxury passenger ships. They returned to Poland in 1981. She appeared in a show, Śpiewając Jazz, from 2009. Moreno was described as the "Swinging Queen of Polish Jazz." (now part of Hamburg), on 30 July 1926, Her parents met in Paris in the 1920s. Her father was a dancer, and her mother an acrobatic dancer; they performed together as the stage duo Los Morenos, with whom Carmen made her own stage debut as a child. The family performed successfully in Berlin, Paris, and Vienna. In January 1945, they arrived in Mysłowice, where her father later died under unclear circumstances. and in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, the hometown of Jan Walasek. She performed with her granddaughter, Anna Serafińska, at the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree in 2010. In 2016, at the initiative of the organizers, a gala concert celebrating Moreno's 90th birthday was held at the Music Theatre in Gdynia.

Moreno recorded only a few tracks for Polskie Nagrania, and for Polish Radio and a radio station in Oslo. In 2009, her first CD, Carmen Moreno – Śpiewający Jazz, was released, containing archival recordings and material recorded during the 2009 stage production.

Discography Albums Carmen Moreno: Śpiewając jazz (4ever MUSIC, 2009, CD; featuring Anna Serafińska and Maciej Zakościelny)

EPs / singles Elisabeth Charles & Zespół Jazzowy Zygmunta Wicharego / Carmen Moreno & Zespół Jazzowy Jana Walaska: Georgia; Słoneczny dzień / St. Louis Blues; Triste Rapsodia (Pronit PN N 0138; 1960)

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