Jonasz Kofta

Jonasz Kofta ( born November 28, 1942 in Mizotsch, Volyn, Ukraine today, † April 19, 1988 in Warsaw) was a Polish singer-songwriter and poet.

The kofta family came after the Second World War to Warsaw and lived in Wroclaw and Poznan later. 1961 made ​​the kofta High School in Posen on Kunstliceum and then began to study painting in Warsaw. While still a student he began to write poetry and write cabaret numbers. Together with Adam Kreczmar and Jan Pietrzak he opened the 1962 student cabaret club Hybrydy in Warsaw. In 1964 he was the literary manager of the cabaret.

In 1966 he published poems, satires and lyrics in newspapers. From 1968 to 1980 he again worked together with Kreczmar and Pietrzak in one of the most popular Polish cabarets Pod EGIDA. Here he created a reputation as one of the most poetic and politically most important singer-songwriters of Poland. In the 1980s, he became ill with cancer. In 1988 he choked while eating deadly.

• Author
• Polish musicians
• Songwriter
• Pole
• Born in 1942
• Died in 1988
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