June 15, at the end 62. The Polish Polish Song Festival in Opole A jubilee concert was organized “Three quarters of Jacek Cygan – birthday”. Songs with the lyrics of Jacek Cygan in the capital of the Polish song were sang then, among others Edyta Górniak, Anna Jurksztowicz, Grażyna Łobaszewska, Stanisław Soyka, Ralph Kaminski, Andrzej Seweryn, Mietek Szcześniak, Majka Jeżowska, Ewelina Flinta, Piotr Cugowski, Garou and Marcin Januszkiewicz. It was in Opole that he received the gold medal “Merit to culture Gloria Artis”.
First songs Jacek Cygan He began to write in college (he worked for free at the time), and in 1975 he founded with Jerzy Pillar group Our Basia Dearwith whom he won the first prize on Student Song Festival in Krakow.
Jacek Cygan is 75 years old. This is one of the most popular songwriters in Poland
A song -born songwriter has lived in Warsaw since 1968, where in 1973 he graduated from the Cybernetics Department of the Military University of Technology.
Five years later he met his future wife Ewa Łabuńska. It was in the wardrobe of the Teatr im. Słowacki in Krakow, during the student song festival. Ewa then worked as an assistant to the festival director. “And our Basia is who?” she asked in the wardrobe. “It’s me,” answered Gypsy. He quickly sparked between them, and Jacek saw a partner for life in her – they are together to this day (they did not see children). The wife gave up her professional ambitions, relieving her husband from home matters.
“If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t pay bills, because I don’t know where to do it. The taps would leak, the door creaks, the floors crackled, and the plasters fell off, because I have two left hands for my homework,” he said.
Jacek Cygan: His songs are sings all of Poland
“I write only for people who I know who are close to me. I am not a window at the post office: I am acknowledged by music, please come in three days, buy a stamp for three fifty and the text will be ready! I have to have a person for whom I write, know. I have to look in her eyes, talk to her. This is the key to creating the character on the stage. I talk about it with the pleasure that I was ‘godfather’ in an interview with PAP Life.
Jacek Cygan has over 1000 song texts. He wrote for such stars as Maryla Rodowicz, Edyta Górniak, Ewa Bem, Halina Frąckowiak, Edyta Geppert, Kayah, Kombii, Seweryn Krajewski, Krzysztof Krawczyk, Lady Pank, Grzegorz Markowski, Jerzy Połomski, Piotr Rubik, Ryszard Rynkowski, Zdzisław Sośnicka, Grzegorz Turnau and Zbigniew Wodecki.
His biggest hits include “What a rose, Edyta Geppert,” It’s not me! “ (2. Place on Eurovision 1994Poland’s greatest success in this competition), “I am a woman” and “Touch” by Edyta Górniak, “Let’s drink for mistakes”, “Gifts of fate” and “Girls like bronze” Ryszard Rynkowski, “Diamond Energy” by Anna Jurksztowicz, “Everything has her time” groups Perfect, “C’est La Vie” by Andrzej Zaucha, “Black and White” Kombi, “What are you, King Golden” by Monika Borys, “Time teaches us the weather” by Grażyna Łobaszewska, “Thanks for the sounds” of Anna Wyszkoni, “Płytopalnia” by Maryla Rodowicz, “Penaline” of Kombia, “All our children are” our children “Krzysztof Antkowiak.
In the 1980s, Jacek Cygan got involved in the development of children’s music (later for these merits he became a bachelor of the Order of the Smile). He collaborated with Majka Jeżowska and a team Papa Dance. He was also a co -author of the television program “Mr. Jacek’s disco”.
He also gained great popularity as a juror on a television program “Idol” (four editions in Polsat in 2002-2005). He assessed the participants with a voice emission specialist Elżbieta Zapendowska and journalists Robert Leszczyński and Kuba Wojewódzki (the latter in the third edition they replaced Maciej Maleńczuk and Marcin Prokop).
In addition to writing songs, he also has books, such as “Lyrical little things”, “Dog in the tunnel” and “Divine mistakes” (poetry) and “Klezmer. The story of the life of Leopold Kozłowski-Kleinman”, “Life is a song”, “I renew souls. Songs, people, time”.
Although he says that in America one Christmas hit can set the author for the rest of his life, he adds that in Poland it is not so and that he cannot settle on his laurels. It is estimated, however, that he receives over a million PLN well from Tantym annually.