Elżbieta Dmoch (born September 29, 1951) is a Polish singer and flautist, former member of the popular band 2 Plus 1.

Career

Dmoch started to attend singing lessons in her earliest years. She went to a musical school, where she learned to play

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and piano. At the end of the 1960s, she became a member of Warszawskie Kuranty, a band founded by

Janusz Kruk Janusz Kruk (7 August 1946 – 18 June 1992) was a Polish singer, guitarist and composer, the leader of the popular band 2 Plus 1. Career Kruk went to a musical school in Warsaw, where he learned to play double bass. At the end of the 1960s, he f ...

. In January 1971, Janusz and Elżbieta formed a new group, 2 Plus 1, which went on to enjoy a mainstream popularity in Poland in the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. In 1974, at the

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, Dmoch won a trophy for the "most attractive singer". She received the same title two years later at the

Opole Festival The National Festival of Polish Song in Opole ( pl, Krajowy Festiwal Piosenki Polskiej w Opolu, KFPP) is an annual music festival in Opole, Poland. Together with the Sopot Festival it is one of the two most important music festivals in Poland. The ...

. In 1979, Polish Council of State awarded her with the Cross of Merit. Dmoch composed the song "Naga plaża" for the 2 Plus 1 album ''

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'', released in 1985.

Private life

Dmoch was in a relationship with the 2 Plus 1 co-founder

for almost twenty years. They married in February 1973 and divorced in the late 1980s, after Janusz had left her for another woman. His death in 1992 deeply affected Elżbieta, who subsequently retired from any artistic and public activity, with the exception of a brief 2 Plus 1 reunion in the late 1990s. Her very last public performance took place in

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, Poland in 2002. She currently lives a secluded lifestyle in

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, though she attended two secret fan gatherings in 2008 and 2013.

References

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