Natalia Kiës has been always communicative, her main language is music: While her contemporaries mauled their flutes, melodica and glockenspiel to create some sound, five-year-old Natalia sat in front of the piano at home to practice classical music with childish enthusiasm. This idyll was cut off after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, as her family moved from Upper Silesia to Germany and Natalia was forced to leave her beloved piano behind. At first she was forced to take a break from her passion for music, but the urge to dedicate her life to music only grew.
She studied classical piano at Folkwang University of the Arts Essen followed by Jazz/Pop vocals at ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem. She also completed a second degree in psychology at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf on the influence of music and stress on cognitive performance. In New York, she completed master classes with Gretchen Parlato, Kurt Elling, Shai Maestro and Taylor Eigsti. With Percussionist and Grammy Award-Winner Keita Ogawa, Moto Fukushima on bass and Manu Schlindwein as producer, JazzSick Records released her latest Album Phœnix in February 2023.