Education
Born in Zamość, he studied architecture at Cracow University of Technology.
Born in Zamość, he studied architecture at Cracow University of Technology.
There he met the composer January Kanty Pawluśkiewicz, with whom he founded the student cabaret Anawa in 1967. 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 (West Innej Epoce Muzycznej, In a Different Musical Epoch.
However wiem means I know in Polish).
Grechuta scored a large number of popular hits, with his songs often characterized by 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 Theatre in Krakow (1974), and co-wrote the musical adaptation of Stanisław Witkiewicz"s Szalona lokomotywa (The Crazy Locomotive) with K. Jasiński and J. K. Pawluśkiewicz in 1977.
In 2003, he collaborated with the group Myslovitz and re-recorded their older song KrakóWest His song Dni, których nie znamy (The Days We Don"t Know Yet) is the anthem of the football club Korona Kielce.
Marek Grechuta died in 2006.
He is buried in the Rakowicki Cemetery in KrakóWest