Tamara Gee

Tamara Diane Wimer (born October 11, 1972), known professionally as Tamara Gee (formerly Isis Gee), is an American pop singer and songwriter.

She grew up singing and performing from the age of 5, and was a professional vocalist by the time she was 12 years old, winning various singing competitions throughout her adolescence and adulthood, as well as a beauty pageant.

Gee opened for vocalist Tony Bennett and his orchestra after being the featured vocalist on various albums throughout her teen years.

Gee attended Kentwood High School in Covington, Washington from 1988 to 1991 receiving awards such as "Most Inspirational Student" and "Most Likely To Succeed".

Gee also received music scholarships at the University of Washington, Central Washington University, Pierce College and Highline Community College.

She has sung at various events for individuals such as Bill Gates, Paul Allen and the Mayor of Seattle.

At 17, Gee received the Best Female Vocalist Award in a singing contest with IMTA (International Modeling and Talent Association) in Los Angeles.

California Soon after, she went on to win a scholarship and beauty pageant (preliminary to Miss America) also winning the Talent Award.

At the age of 19 she opened for Tony Bennett and his large orchestra, also touring and recording with various orchestra's and big jazz bands.

Before Gee turned 21, she had been the featured vocalist on an array of albums including recording with the Jazz Police, a 24 piece jazz band from Seattle on their 1992 album Phantom Suite.

The album was released with Universal Music Group.

Gee was also the vocalist for Room to Move, featuring on the band's album No Time for Daydreams, as well as the featured vocalist with the Bobby Medina Band (Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, etc.).

During her Asia tour she also performed with McCoy Tyner (John Coltrane, Stanley Clarke, Bill Evans).

After moving to Los Angeles, Gee worked with songwriter Steve Dorff (Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston).

In 2000, she starred in Jericho.

In 2004 she married Adam Gołębiowski and moved to Warsaw, Poland.

She released her debut album Hidden Treasure with Universal Music in 2007, while living in Poland.

In 2007 Gee co-wrote and performed "Fate" on DJ Schiller's album Sehnsucht.

The album went triple platinum and was nominated for a Grammy.

She continued to pursue her career in Poland and released her debut album Hidden Treasure with Universal Music in 2007.

Grammy Award-winning engineer Simon Gogerly assisted and mixed the entire album, as well as her single "For Life".

KK co-produced three tracks on the album.

In 2007, Gee worked with German DJ Schiller (Christopher von Deylen) on his new album Sehnsucht, co-writing and performing the song "Fate", which was released with Universal Music.

The album and song received Platinum, selling over 200,000 units in a few months time.

The album went triple platinum and was nominated for a Grammy.

In 2007, Gee also took part in Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z Gwiazdami on TVN in Poland.

She reached the quarter-final, ranking a top 5 position out of 14 couples.

Her dance partner was world champion Ukrainian dancer Zora Korolyov.

Her single from the album, "For Life", was voted unanimous winner of Piosenka dla Europy, the Polish final for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest.

Tamara and her song "For Life" was the first Polish entry in history to qualify out of a semifinal.

A portion of Gee's Eurovision performance was shown on The Oprah Winfrey Show on "The World's Got Talent" episode with Simon Cowell where Gee sang with former participants Celine Dion and Julio Iglesias.

She released her solo EP Christmas Angel in 2009.

Gee is the co-founder, co-owner, co-creator, spokeswoman, and creative director of Nebu Milano, an Italian cosmetic brand launched in Milan in 2013.

Tamara Gee is of Polish descent.

She was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States as Tamara Diane Wimer.

At 8 years old she began singing the National Anthem as a soloist for major Seattle sporting events at the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Mariners and Seattle SuperSonics games in arenas of 65,000+ people and was singing regularly at such events until her early 20s.

Throughout her adolescence, Gee sang and toured the United States with the Seattle Girls Choir studying with Jerry Wright and the Northwest Girls Choir as well as trained privately with vocal coach Maestro David Kyle (Ann Wilson, Geoff Tate, Chris Cornell, Layne Staley, etc.) who Gee stated, taught her how to belt in her chest voice.

She began her professional career in music at age 12, performing pop, R&B, classical, jazz, Broadway, and country music.

In a Tygodnik Angora Magazine article, Gee shared that the most memorable singing contest she ever entered as a child was when she was 12 years old, both winning the contest and $1,000.00 cash.

On November 27, 2014, Tamara released a new highly anticipated album "Love, Tamara" of which she wrote with and was produced by Multi Grammy Award winning producer/songwriter Walter Afanasieff (Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, etc.).