Barbara Josephine Bulat (born April 13, 1984), known as Basia Bulat /ˈbɒʃə buːˈlɒt/,[1][2] is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is known for performing with an autoharp.[3]
Bulat grew up in Etobicoke, Ontario[2] where her mother was a music teacher[4] who taught piano and guitar. She is of Polish origin and a member of the Canadian Polonia.[5] She has said the radio at home was permanently tuned to an oldies station.[6] “I don’t think I realised the radio had more than one station until I was 11 or 12,” she says.[7]
She attended the University of Western Ontario where she received a degree in English;[8] she also took some classes with Olenka Krakus of the band Olenka and the Autumn Lovers.[9] Bulat began an MA in English at Western in 2006 but moved to Montreal to record “an audible memory” of her time there which resulted in her debut album.[10]
Although Bulat no longer lives in London, Ontario, she has recognized the importance of London in establishing her career: “London has always been so supportive of me. I feel like the city really adopted me,” she says. “It wasn’t part of a larger commercial music industry but a small, close-knit scene, which was kind of nice.”[11]
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