Witold Łukaszewski

Witold Łukaszewski,  also known by his stage name Witek Łukaszewski, born 30 November 1956 in Szczecin, Poland – Polish guitarist, vocalist, music and lyrics author, poet and writer.

He is the founder and leader of several music groups, including: Acid Flamenco, founded in 1994, Red Pink, playing the mixture of rock and blues and the latest music project GrandPiano - combining progressive rock, sung poetry and classical and ethnic instruments.

Between 1984 and 2001 Witek Łukaszewski was organizing the International Flamenco Festival in Kościan, Poland. Three times, in the years 1995-1997, he was chosen as the best flamenco guitarist in Poland, according to the "Guitar & Bass" music magazine.

In 2007 he debuted as a writer, publishing a „music fiction” book about Led Zeppelin. Two years later, he published his first volume of poetry with CD - "Cafe Poema". His other “music fiction” novels are "Dialogues: Jimi Hendrix & Niccolo Paganini" (2013) and "Dialogues (2): Jim Morrison & Pablo Picasso" (2016).

He performed three times at a Polish rock music festival with programs: “Magic of Flamenco” (2007), “Our Daily Norwid” (2008) and “Chopin’s Grand Piano” (2010). With “Chopin’s Grand Piano" project he also appeared at the Fryderyki award ceremony (2010) with Polish actor, Krzysztof Kolberger reciting title Cyprian K. Norwid’s poem.

He cooperated with number of musicians in Poland, e.g. Józef Skrzek and SBB, Tomasz Szukalski, Jurek Styczynski (Dżem), Andrzej Przybielski (Niemen group), Wojtek Hoffmann (Turbo) and Marek Raduli (Budka Suflera). His poems were recited by Andrzej Seweryn and Olgierd Lukaszewicz – figures of the Polish theatre. He is also the author of music and lyrics of 10 songs from Polish pop performer Maryla Rodowicz's music album "Oh world ..." (2017).  with songs "Sit at the table", "The Forest", "It’s not so bad".

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