Katarzyna Łaska (born 26 May 1979), known professionally as Kasia Łaska, is a Polish singer, who is best known from the Musical Theatre Roma where she starred in the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, adult Wendy in the musical Peter Pan and Frenchy in the musical Grease. She also played Maria in the musical West Side Story at the Musical Theatre Capitol in Wrocław. Łaska has also lent her voice to Polish versions of several animated films and cartoons. Among her TV roles are Daring Do and Princess Cadance in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Pearl in Steven Universe, and Katie in the Canadian cartoon Total Drama Island. Łaska played the singing voice of Elsa, the Snow Queen in performing "Let It Go" (in Polish as "Mam tę moc") in the Disney animated film Frozen and its sequel, Frozen II where Kasia sings "Chcę uwierzyć snom", the Polish version of "Into the Unknown" made popular by Panic! At the Disco. On 9 February 2020, Łaska was called to join Idina Menzel, Aurora and eight more of Elsa's international voiceovers to perform the song "Into the Unknown" during the 92nd Academy Awards. Every international performer sang one line of the song in different languages: Maria Lucia Heiberg Rosenberg in Danish, Willemijn Verkaik in both Dutch and German, Takako Matsu in Japanese, Carmen Sarahí in Latin American Spanish, Lisa Stokke in Norwegian, Łaska in Polish, Anna Buturlina in Russian, Gisela in European Spanish and Gam Wichayanee in Thai.

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