Ewa Farna

Biography

Ewa Chobot (née Farna, born 12 August 1993) is a Polish-Czech pop-rock singer. She released five Polish-language and four Czech-language studio albums, and received platinum and gold certifications for them, both in Poland and the Czech Republic. She was a judge on Česko Slovenská SuperStar in 2013, the Polish X Factor in 2014, and the Polish Idol in 2017. She released her debut studio album Měls mě vůbec rád in 2006 and won the Český slavík Discovery of the Year award.

== Early life == Ewa Farna was born on 12 August 1993 in Třinec, Czech Republic, into a Polish family residing in the nearby village of Vendryně. She attended a Polish elementary school in Vendryně and the Juliusz Słowacki Polish Grammar School in Český Těšín. She also attended art school for five years, as well as a dance school, and learned to play the piano in her childhood.

== Career == Farna first attracted attention after winning local talent competitions in the Czech Republic and Poland in 2004 and 2005, which led to her being discovered by producer Lešek Wronka, who became her manager. In 2006, she released her debut studio album Měls mě vůbec rád and won the Český slavík Discovery of the Year award. In 2007, she released her sophomore album, Ticho, which peaked at number two in the Czech Republic, and the Polish version of her debut album, titled Sam na sam. Her concert DVD Blíž ke hvězdám became the best-selling music DVD of 2008 in the Czech Republic. In early 2009, the Polish version of Ticho was released, titled Cicho. In 2010, she made a guest appearance in an episode of the Polish sitcom Hela w opałach. Her next album, Virtuální, was released on 26 October 2009. In 2010, Farna's debut Polish album EWAkuacja was released; it ended up garnering many awards, including Viva Comet 2011. In 2011, she held two concerts on the occasion of her eighteenth birthday, one in the Czech Republic and one in Poland; she subsequently released concert DVDs 18 Live and Live, niezapomniany koncert urodzinowy for the Czech and Polish markets, respectively. Also in 2011, she won the Album of the Year category in the Polish Opole Festival's Superjedynki awards for the album Cicho, and the Polish Hit of the Summer category at the Sopot Hit Festival for the single "Cicho". In October 2013, Farna's major comeback with her album (W)Inna? (winna meaning guilty, inna meaning different) caused confusion, as many mistook the title to be a reference to her 2012 car accident. Following a personal disagreement with Wronka in 2017, Farna dismissed him. In 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, she won the Český slavík Best Female Singer award. In 2026, she sold out three shows at the Fortuna Arena, becoming the first Czech female singer to do so.

== Personal life == Ewa Farna hails from a patriotic Polish family from the Trans-Olza region. Her father Tadeusz is a musician in regional Polish folk groups. She has two siblings, a brother Adam (born 1995) and a sister Magdalena (born 2006). Though she holds Czech citizenship, she has stated many times that she feels "a proud Pole", and has campaigned for the visibility of the Polish minority in the Czech Republic, often cooperating with the Congress of Poles in the Czech Republic. In 2008, she received the Srebrne Spinki award from the General Consul of Poland in Ostrava for her musical successes and for promoting the Polish minority of the Trans-Olza region. On 22 May 2012, Farna crashed her car near the towns of Třinec and Vendryně. She suffered only minor scratches. According to a breath test, she was driving under the influence of alcohol, with a blood alcohol content level of less than 1‰. She had been celebrating the passing of her matura the day before and fell asleep behind the wheel, later blaming her exhaustion on a week-long cram session that preceded the exam. Farna and her long-time partner Martin Chobot married in 2017. They have two children, and live in Prague.

== Discography and charts ==

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