Daniel Bloom (born Daniel Borcuch) is a composer, music producer, and musician from Kwidzyn, northern Poland. He also runs his own music studio, Two Minutes Elsie Studio. He studied music in school, particularly piano, and then studied archaeology at university. Bloom’s career is multifaceted, existing in several different mediums simultaneously: his online biographies describe him […]

Błażej Król is an up-and-coming Polish musician currently active mainly in the alternative genre. He was born in Gorzów Wielkopolski, in western Poland, in 1984. He started his music career with the band Kawałek Kulki, which he founded along with Paweł Turłaj (drums) and Magdalena Turłaj (violin, vocals) in 2001 in Gorzów Wielkopolski. He himself […]

One, Two, Three (Raz, Dwa, Trzy) is a Polish band that combines rock, jazz, folk music, and poetry. It was started by Adam Nowak (guitar, vocals), Grzegorz Szwałek (accordion, clarinet, keyboard), Jacek Olejarz (drums), and Jacek Ograbek in 1990, when they were students at the Pedagogical College in Zielona Góra, in western Poland. The group’s […]

Kazik (Kazimierz) Staszewski is a Polish singer, songwriter, and occasional saxophonist best known for his participation in the long-running rock band Kult. He has performed and recorded with other bands as well, and also has a successful solo career. Kazik hails from Warsaw. He has been a staple of the Polish music scene since the […]

Krystyna Prońko is a Polish singer who mainly performs jazz. Born in Gorzów Wielkopolski, a small city in the far west of Poland, Prońko did not start out intending to become a singer: her first degree is in chemical analysis, and she worked in this field for some time. Her first professional musical endeavor was […]

Andrzej Zaucha was a Polish singer and musician who died in 1991 at the age of 42. Born in Krakow, Zaucha was not trained as a musician. He competed successfully in canoeing nationwide as a teenager, winning some medals at the Polish Championships in the 1960s. He soon switched his attention to music, joining the […]

Katarzyna (Kasia) Nosowska is a Polish singer who has a thriving solo career and is also the lead singer for the popular rock band Hey. Nosowska was born in Szczecin and sang in several rock groups in her early years, including the evocatively named Hairy (Włochaty) and Pajama Porno (Pidżamy Porno). In 1991 she started […]

Natalia Przybysz is a Polish singer of R&B, soul, and other genres. Currently working mostly on her solo career under the name Natu, she also collaborates and performs with many other Polish rock, pop, and R&B musicians. Przybysz was drawn to music at an early age, studying the cello at school. She and her sister, […]

Kazik & Kwartet ProForma is a Polish band consisting of singer Kazik Staszewski and the Kwartet ProForma, a band that had existed independently prior to bringing Staszewski on board. The band is Przemysław Lembicz (vocals, guitar), Peter Lembicz (guitar), Wojciech Strzelecki (bass, bass guitar, vocals), Marcin Zmuda (keyboard, vocals), and Marek Wawrzyniak (percussion)—yes, the quartet […]