Marek Grechuta (ur. 10 grudnia 1945 w Zamosciu, zm. 9 pazdziernika 2006 w Krakowie) – polski piosenkarz, poeta i kompozytor, z wyksztalcenia architekt. Interesowal sie takze rzezba i filozofia.Jego tworczosc okresla sie zazwyczaj mianem lagodnej formy progresywnego rocka z silnymi wplywami jazz rocka (szczególnie we wczesnym okresie twórczosci), piosenki autorskiej lub poezji spiewanej.
Born in the town of Zamosc, he studied architecture at the Polytechnic University in Kraków. Here he met the composer Jan Kanty Pawluskiewicz, with whom he founded the student cabaret Anawa in 1967. In that same year he was awarded second place in the VI National Contest of Student Musicians (VI Ogólnopolski Konkurs Piosenkarzy Studenckich) and also received an award for Tango Anawa, with lyrics written by him and music by Jan Kanty Pawluskiewicz. Beginning in 1968 he would win several awards at the Festival of Polish Music in Opole. In 1969 he played a minor role in Andrzej Wajda's film Polowanie na muchy (Hunting Flies). In 1971 he left Anawa and founded the band WIEM (W Innej Epoce Muzycznej).
Grechuta scored a large number of popular hits, with his songs often characterized by his use of poetic and literary elements. He co-authored (along with P. Birula and K. Szwajgier) the music for Exodus (written by L. A. Moczulski) at the STU Theater in Krakow (1974), and cowrote the musical adaptation of Stanislaw Witkiewicz's Szalona Lokomotywa (The Crazy Locomotive) with K. Jasi--ski and Jan Kanty Pawlu--kiewicz in 1977. In 2003 he collaborated with the group Myslovitz and re-recorded their older song Kraków. His song Dni których nie znamy is the fight song of the football club Korona Kielce.
Marek Grechuta was married with his wife Danuta since 1967 and has one son, Lukasz. He is buried on the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków.
* Marek Grechuta & Anawa (1970)
* Korowód (1971)
* Droga za widnokres (1972)
* Magia obloków (1974)
* Szalona lokomotywa (1977)
* Piesni Marka Grechuty do slów Tadeusza Nowaka (1979)
* Spiewajace obrazy (1981)
* W malinowym chrusniaku (1984)
* Wiosna - ach to ty! (1987)
* Krajobraz pelen nadziei (1989)
* Ocalic od zapomnienia (1990)
* Piosenki dla dzieci i rodziców (1991)
* Dziesiec waznych slów (1994)
* Niezwykle miejsca (2003)
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