Grzegorz Ciechowski

Grzegorz 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 frontman of the band Republika, which had its origins in the student club Od nowa in Toruń and then in 1980 in Warsaw for the first time appeared in public, and until 1985 was one of the most popular Polish groups. The band was impressed not only by their ajar to Western models lightness of the music, but also by their poetic and profound lyrics. Created over that time three LPs ( Nowe Sytuacje, 1984 and Nieustanne Tango). The mid-1980s took Ciechowski a musical break from the band and formed a new group called Obywatel GC (Citizen G. C. ), with the plate Obywatel G. C. (1986 ), but especially with the legendary album Tak! Tak! 1988 also had great commercial success. In free Poland 1991, there were a revival of Republika, in the course of the 1990s, Ciechowski but still tried with a number of other projects, including the Ethnopop combo Grzegorz z Ciechowa. At the same time he composed for other artists, including Kasia Kowalska for Justyna Steczkowska and Katarzyna Groniec and produced the German singer Mona Mur. He wrote the film score for Stan Strachu by Janusz Kijowski and for the German TV series Castle Pompon Rouge. For the music to Marek Brodzkis Adventure Wiedźmin (2000) he received posthumously the 2002 Polish Film Awards.

On December 22, 2001 Ciechowski died during a complicated heart surgery, he left a wife and four children.

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