Szymon Wydra (; born 11 March 1976 in

Radom Radom is a city in east-central Poland, located approximately south of the capital, Warsaw. It is situated on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship. Radom is the fifteenth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in its province w ...

) is a Polish rock vocalist, poet and finalist on the first edition of Polish '' Idol''. He is also a

vocalist Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define singi ...

of Carpe Diem.

Career

Wydra's first music band, ''Nadzieja'' (''Hope''), existed for two years and played

punk rock Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...

. He has been vocalist and leader of his own band, Szymon Wydra & Carpe Diem, since 1992. He took part in a popular Polish TV show '' Szansa na sukces'' (''Chance for success'') in 2001 and achieved respect but was not the winner. He performed again in the same show in February of the following year, singing a song by Ryszard Rynkowski and being chosen by him as the winning participant. On 13 December 2002 his band released their first album, entitled ''Teraz wiem'' (''Now I know''). Their second album, ''Bezczas'' was released in 2005. In August 2007, Wydra was placed among five performers in the semi-final of Polish qualifications for the Sopot Festival. Then he performed with his band the song ''Gdzie jesteś dziś'' (''Where are you today?'') but the jury decided that Poland would be represented by another band, Feel with their song ''A gdy jest już ciemno''. He strongly criticized illegal

download In computer networks, download means to ''receive'' data from a remote system, typically a server such as a web server, an FTP server, an email server, or other similar systems. This contrasts with uploading, where data is ''sent to'' a remote ...

ing of his work from the

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...

in one of his most recent interview, going so far as to claim once that it was worse than murder.

Discography

Studio albums

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wydra, Szymon 1976 births Living people People from Radom Polish pop singers Polish rock singers 20th-century Polish male singers 21st-century Polish male singers 21st-century Polish singers