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Wojciech Korda
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Wojciech Korda, born Wojciech Wacław Kędziora, was one of the artists who helped shape Polish big beat during its earliest and most energetic phase. He was a singer, guitarist, and composer, and his name is most closely linked with Niebiesko-Czarni, one of the defining groups in the history of Polish youth music of the 1960s. He was born on 11 March 1944 in Poznań. Before entering mainstream stage life, he gained vocal experience in Stefan Stuligrosz’s boys’ choir, and as a teenager he was already performing Elvis Presley songs in the milieu of Poznań’s student club Od Nowa. The safest confirmed debut point is 1962, when he became a finalist at the Young Talents Festival in Szczecin. Two years later he was...
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- According to a frequently repeated anecdote, the stage name “Korda” came from the Latin phrase “sursum corda,” supposedly used by an announcer to encourage him early in his career.
- Before becoming a big beat star, he sang in the famous Poznań boys’ choir led by Stefan Stuligrosz, where he even performed parts of Mozart’s “Requiem.”
- At the Young Talents Festival he performed Elvis Presley songs, and the sources stress that rock and roll remained the style he felt most naturally connected to throughout his career.
- His first major appearance with Niebiesko-Czarni took place on 4 January 1964 at Warsaw’s Sala Kongresowa, where the band opened for Marlene Dietrich, an unusually strong entry onto a major stage.
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