If you ask to a young person from Poland: Do you like Disco-Polo?, 99% of the answer will be: of course not!. This musical genre is hated by many Polish people, but it is loved by millions! If you ever visited Poland, or if you had the chance to go to a Polish wedding, it is almost sure that you heard once a Disco-Polo song. Most of the Disco-Polo songs are about the love’s tragedies, but some other talk about joy and holidays. Almost all of the songs are in Polish, but in the last couple of years there were some songs in English.

This type of music is characterised by drums and keyboard sounds. The top of popularity of Disco-Polo was in the middle 90’s, the criminal Polish organisations controlled approximately 70% of this musical market, which caused this type of music to be considered as something bad and with low reputation. What is Disco-Polo?ĭisco-Polo is a musical genre that was born in Poland at the beginning of the 80’s and it was known as Pavement Music (piosenka chodnikowa in Polish) because you could only find this type of music in the streets markets. The name of this Polish musical genre is known as Disco-Polo. In case of Poland, there is a musical genre that is hated and loved by many people. Music is probably one of the greatest inventions of humanity, in all the countries of the world there are dozens of musical groups, typical songs for each culture, artists that are ambassadors of their nation and some musical genres that are really characteristic.

It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

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