Grzegorz Ciechowski

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Grzegorz Zbigniew Ciechowski (born August 29, 1957 in Tczew , † December 22, 2001 in Warsaw ) was a Polish rock musician and film composer .

Ciechowski was the founder and front man of the band Republika , which had its origins in the student club Od nowa in Toruń and then appeared publicly in Warsaw in 1980 and was one of the most popular Polish groups until 1985. The band impressed not only with their ease of music, based on Western models, but also with their poetic and profound lyrics. At that time three long-playing records were made ( Nowe Sytuacje , 1984 and Nieustanne Tango ). In the mid-1980s, Ciechowski took a musical break from the band and founded a new group called Obywatel GC (Bürger GC), which started with the record Obywatel GC (1986), but especially with the legendary album Tak! Tak! from 1988 also had great commercial success. In free Poland there was a revival of Republika in 1991 , but in the course of the 1990s Ciechowski tried a number of other projects, including the ethnopop combo Grzegorz z Ciechowa . At the same time he composed for other artists, including a. for Kasia Kowalska , Justyna Steczkowska and Katarzyna Groniec and produced the German singer Mona Mur . He wrote the film music for Stan Strachu by Janusz Kijowski and for the German television series Schloß Pompon Rouge . For the music to Marek Brodzki's adventure film Wiedźmin (2000) he was posthumously awarded the Polish Film Prize in 2002 .

On December 22, 2001, Ciechowski died during a complicated heart operation, leaving behind a wife and four children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grzegorz Ciechowski | Biography | Archiwum Polskiego Rocka 1961 - 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019 (pl-PL).

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SURNAME Ciechowski, Grzegorz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ciechowski, Grzegorz Zbigniew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish rock musician and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Tczew , Poland
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2001
Place of death Warsaw