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Stanisław Grzesiuk (1918-1963) was a Polish writer, poet, comic and singer. He is notable as one of the few people to use and promote the folk-lore and dialect of Warsaw, almost extinct after the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Stanisław Grzesiuk was born May 6, 1918 in Malkow near Chelm. Early in his life his family moved to Warsaw's borough of Czerniakow, a distinct cultural area populated mostly by factory workers and other lower classes of the society. After graduating from a local gymnasium he finished a trade school and started working as an electrotechnician for various enterprises. After the outbreak...

Soyka is a Polish jazz and pop singer, pianist and composer. He was born as Stanisław Sojka on April 26, 1959 in Żory, Poland, a small town in the Upper Silesia. He started performing in public as a soprano singer in the Gliwice Cathedral Choir, when he was seven years old. In the same time he also was a violin student of the second grade at the State Musical School in Gliwice. His musical education was continued at the Music High School in Katowice and completed with master degree in arrangement and composing from the Katowice Music Academy. Soyka professionally...

Stanisław Moniuszko (born May 5, 1819 in Ubiel near Minsk, Belarus, - June 4, 1872 in Warsaw, Congress Poland) was a Polish-Belarusian composer, conductor and teacher. His output includes many songs and operas, and his musical style is filled with patriotic folk themes. He is generally referred to as the father of Polish and Belarusian national operas. .