BRAThANKI
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BRAThANKI is a popular Polish
folk
-rock
group. They combine Polish, Hungarian and Czech folk elements with rock music.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
-rock
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
group. They combine Polish, Hungarian and Czech folk elements with rock music.
Albums
- Ano! (2000) POL: 4x platinum; POL #5
- Patataj (2001) POL: platinum; POL #3
- Galoop (2003) POL #39
Members
- Janusz Mus (accordion) (established the band in 1998)
- Adam Prucnal (violin)
- Jacek Królik (guitar)
- Grzegorz Piętak (bass guitar)
- Piotr Królik (drums)
- Stefan Błaszczyński (flute)
- Halina MlynkovaHalina MlynkovaHalina Mlynkova is a Czech-born Polish singer, from 1999 to 2003 leader of a popular Polish folk-rock group Brathanki.- Biography :...
(vocal) (left the band in 2003) - Ania Mikos (vocal) (Replaced Halinka Młynek)
- Magdalena Rzemek (vocal) (Replaced Halinka Młynek)
- Ola Chodak (vocal) (replaces Ania Mikos and Magdalena Rzemek)