"Ivan & Delfin have appeared in many TV shows, such as ‘Randka W Ciemno’ (the Polish version of ‘Blind Date’)"

"The band members met each other in mid-2002 in the City Café club. After a few months of playing cover tracks in Warsaw clubs (such as City Café, Neo Café and Panorama in the Hotel Marriott), Ivan, Lukasz and Olo decided to start working on a repertoire of their own and named the group Ivan & Delfin. It took a few months to write the music (which was Lukasz & Olo’s job) and the lyrics (Ivan and Michal Szymanski’s). Finally, in September 2003, the band entered the Spaart studio in Boguchwala near Rzeszów and recorded the entire album.

The album was released by a friendly record company – Team Design – and hit the shops in March 2004. Earlier, in October 2003, the song ‘Jej Czarne Oczy’ (‘Her Black Eyes’) had been released and played on all the radio stations in Poland. It became a hit among all the stations that had decided to promote a song from such an unknown and independent band.

In January, the track ended up on the compilation of Dee Jay Mix Club, a major organization that unites hundreds of clubs and DJs in Poland. It also reigned in the discotheques, dance clubs and became a summer holiday smash hit. The band had found fame despite the flimsy distribution of the album and the boycott performed by large commercial radio stations.
Since June 2004, Ivan & Delfin have performed several dozen shows around the country. ‘Jej Czarne Oczy’ has also had overseas success and became a big hit in Polish radio stations in the USA, and so the band visited the United States twice, performing in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Detroit. Today the song
‘Sto Lat Niech Zyje Milosc’ is a big hit in those radio stations, and clubs in the Polish community.

In February 2005, the album was re-issued with a new visual design and slightly different musical content. Krzysztof Bogucki’s record company - Impressariat – is taking care of the release, while the extremely energetic Magic Records is doing the distribution.
The band has made two videos – ‘Jej Czarne Oczy’ and the Eurovision song ‘Czarna Dziewczyna’. The video for ‘Sto Lat Niech Zyje Milosc’ is being made.

Ivan & Delfin have appeared in many TV shows, such as ‘Randka W Ciemno’ (the Polish version of ‘Blind Date’), ‘Kawa Czy Herbata’ (a journalistic program), Stratosfera (a music programme that features Polish stars) and many others.
The vocalist Ivan Komarenko is also in the most popular TV series in Poland (‘M Jak Milosc’). He is a very outspoken person and has starred in many magazines and TV shows.

The Singer

Ivan & Delfin have appeared on the Polish version of Blind Date. It doesn't say if they were chosen, or did the choosing. To me, they're a novelty act, nothing more nothing less, so I'll leave it there.

The Past

2005 will Poland's tenth anniversary in the Eurosong, and they've been in the top ten twice since 1994, not that great to be honest. First time up Edyta came a creditable second, but alas they haven't approached that level of excitement tinged with temporary fear of having to host it since. "The Rhinestone Cowboy and the Snow Queen" (Terry's description, not mine) performed with weighty gravitas in 2003 and came eighth. But those apart, they've failed. Still, Germany love 'em.

The Song
They've thrown in lots of repetitive pointless vocal sounds, which is good on the night, but annoys me no end. It's a gypsy tinged barn dancing type of thing, which fails to rouse on any level. I'm a bit afraid of being too harsh, or Ivan & Delfin may cast a thousand curses on my Eurosong family. And I wouldn't want that.

Gestures - 28From the looks of the video, it appears they rented the corner of a pub, all crammed in and
he usual physical ambivalence of the French is on show here, with a minor scores on the doors.

"Wanna" Count - 0 6 "wants" (as translated from the French), but this doesn't count. Let's face it, France will never demean themselves so far as to include a "wanna" in their lyrics.

Overall
The traveller in me should like this, but the traveller in me balked by the time the chorus arrived. And with Mr Howard's aversion towards the gypsy community being a central part of the General Election strategy, Ivan's popularity within Britain could well take a battering...what am I saying? No Brits will watch the semi anyway. By the time of the final, Ivan will be back in Warsaw sipping bison grass vodka.

In a Nutshell
"Their chances of progressing hang by a clothes peg"

"The Shrink Says"

Ivan & Delfin seems to have latent perceptions of the "Babbling Stage" of their development. That is the very early stage of language development, usually occurring around ages 3-4 months when you begin to speak. Or alternatively it often happens when you wake up after 15 pints in someone else's bed wearing someone else's underthings (or is that just me?).

"Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj"

These lyrics are vociferous gurglings not unlike a scenario of baby Janka seeking the breast of her mother Bertuska through "babbling" sounds. I thank you.

Brian "Queen" May
Ivan or Delfin (I don't care which)

Czarna Dziewczyna

Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj

Czarna dziewczyno
To slonca ostatni blysk
Ogien, czerwone wino
Rozgonia cyganskie sny

Czarna dziewczyno
Czy widzisz byc z toba chce
Gdy wszystkie gwiazdy dzis mówia nam
Co sie wydarzy nie grzech

Hajda wy bystre konie
Wiezcie nas z calych sil
Czarna jedyna
On chce byc z nia, ona z nim

Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj

Chernyje ochi
Zabyt' mne vas netu sil
Skvoz' vse bessonnyje nochi
Ja vas ljubil, ja molil

Hajda wy bystre konie
Wiezcie nas z calych sil
Czarna jedyna
On chce byc z nia, ona z nim

Hej, hej
Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hopa...

Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj

Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj... (laj lalala)
Laj laj laj laj (laj lalala)
Laj laj laj laj (laj lalala)
Laj laj laj laj

Black Haired Girl

Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj

Black-haired girl
It's the last light of the sun
The fire, the red wine
Will drive away the Gypsy dreams

Black-haired girl
Do you see, I want to be with you
When all stars are telling us today
What will happen isn't a sin

Come on, you fast horses
Go with all your forces
The only black-haired one
He wants to be with her, she with him

Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj

Black eyes
I can't forget you
Through all sleepless nights
I was loving you, I was begging you

Come on, you fast horses
Go with all your forces
The only black-haired one
He wants to be with her, she with him

Hey, hey
Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hopa...

Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj

Laj... laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj laj laj laj
Laj... (laj lalala)
Laj laj laj laj (laj lalala)
Laj laj laj laj (laj lalala)
Laj laj laj laj

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