WIgor Ramanovich Bantser is a Polish Belarusian musician, activist, journalist, worker, and events organiser. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Magazyn Polski and of the Głos znad Niemna in exile as well as the former spokesperson of the Union of Poles in Belarus. Bantser is perhaps best known as the founder and singer of the Grodno-based streetpunk band Mister X, though he also serves as head of the "Grodno Rock-club".
WJózef Baran (born January 17, 1947 in Borzęcin is a Polish poet, living in Kraków.
WWojciech Belon, also known as Wojtek Bellon, was a Polish poet, songwriter and folksinger. His best known ballad Majster Bieda and most of his compositions have never been released by government controlled media which at that time was dominated by establishment approved songwriters such as Agnieszka Osiecka, though most college students and Polish youth knew them by heart from amateur tapes recorded at student and tourist festivals and similar musical events in Cracow 1974, Zielona Góra 1985, Busko Zdrój, Tarnów, Gdańsk. In Poland you can hear them until this very day as part of the repertoire of many bands. Belon was a symbol of youth frustration of the so-called lost generation of the late-1960s, 1970s and early-1980s in Poland. His writings were inspiring in the way Bob Dylan's songs in America were. The circumstances of his death in 1985 have never been disclosed.
WKonstancja Benisławska (1747–1806) was a Polish poet and writer of religious hymns.
WArtur Gadowski is Polish musician, vocalist of a rock band IRA.
WStanisław Grzesiuk was a Polish writer, poet, singer, and comedian. He is notable as one of the few public figures to use and promote the singing style and dialect of pre-war Warsaw after their near extinction in the aftermath of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
WLech Andrzej Janerka is a Polish songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. In the 1980s he was leader of a notable Polish post-punk/new wave band called Klaus Mitffoch, based in Wrocław.
WJonasz Kofta, real name: Janusz Kofta was a Polish songwriter and a poet.
WFeliks Konarski was a Polish poet, songwriter, and cabaret performer.
WAdam Nowak is a leader, guitar player and song writer of the Polish music band Raz, Dwa, Trzy. He is a graduate of Zielona Góra Pedagogical University and currently lives near Toruń with his family.
WMarcin "Novy" Nowak is a Polish death metal musician known for his contribution to the bands Devilyn, Dies Irae, Nader Sadek, Thy Disease, Behemoth, Spinal Cord, Vader, Virgin Snatch and Crucified Mortals.
WOlimpia Obarska-Forkasiewicz, better known by her stage name Ola Obarska, was a Polish actress, operetta singer, librettist, theatre director, journalist and songwriter.
WAgnieszka Osiecka was a poet, writer, author of theatre and television screenplays, film director and journalist. She was a prominent Polish songwriter, having authored the lyrics to more than 2000 songs, and is considered an icon of Polish culture.
WMaria Teresa Peszek is a Polish singer, songwriter and actor. She embarked on a professional acting career in the early 1990s and went on to appear in over 40 stage plays, as well as a number of feature films and television series. In 2005, Peszek released her debut album, the commercially successful and critically acclaimed Miasto mania, followed by Maria Awaria (2008) and Jezus Maria Peszek (2012) which both topped the Polish albums chart and received favourable reviews. Peszek is noted for controversial lyrics and subjects of her work.
WStanisław Joachim Sojka, also known as Stanisław Soyka, is a Polish jazz and pop singer, pianist and composer.
WCzesław Śpiewa is a Polish-Danish singer and musician, and graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
WAndrzej Szpilman is a dentist, composer, music producer, publisher, and son of the pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman.
WWładysław Szpilman was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.
WKonrad Tom, born Konrad Runowiecki, a Polish Jewish actor, writer, singer and director, born in Warsaw. Wrote song lyrics in Polish and in Yiddish for stage, film and cabaret, including szmonces. His wife was actress Zula Pogorzelska."Yiddish talkies were not only comparable to those of the Polish mainstream but were produced by the same people. The most successful Yiddish talkies were directed by established industry figures including Waszyński, Ford, Henryk Szaro, Jan Nowina-Przybylski, Leon Trystan, and Konrad Tom."
WCzesława Gospodarek, known by her stage name Violetta Villas, was a Polish and international cabaret star, singer, actress, composer and songwriter. Her voice was characterized as coloratura soprano, which spanned over four octaves. She could play the piano, violin, and trombone and had absolute pitch. Characterisations of her included "the voice of the atomic age", "the singing toast of the continent", "a voice like French champagne", and the "Polish Yma Sumac". Villas was the first star of the Casino de Paris at Dunes Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (1966–1970).
WAndrzej Włast was a Polish Jewish songwriter. He wrote the lyrics for the 1929 hit song "Tango Milonga" / "Oh, Donna Clara". He died in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.