Szymon

A talented but troubled multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter whose honeyed falsetto and pure pop acumen didn't enter the public sphere until three years after his death, Szymon Borzestowski's evocative blend of folk, pop, and electronica occupied that impalpable sweet spot between inclusive and otherworldly. Born in Newcastle, Australia in 1989 to Polish immigrants, Szymon was the third of four children. Raised in an acutely musical household, an early infatuation with jazz, bebop, and swing led the budding artist to take up the clarinet and saxophone, on which he becam...