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 graduated from a music secondary/high school in Warsaw, specializing in double bass. At the end of the 1960s, he founded the band Warszawskie Kuranty, a member of which was also Elżbieta Dmoch. In January 1971, Janusz and Elżbieta formed a new group, 2 Plus 1, which would become highly successful in Poland in the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. The band also scored a number of minor hits in Western Europe and Japan, and released two albums internationally.

Kruk was the leader of 2 Plus 1 until his premature death in 1992. He composed most of the songs and holds arrangement and production credits for most of the albums, except for the two English-language LPs, Easy Come, Easy Go and Warsaw Nights. In the mid-late 1980s Kruk started composing musical scores for various theatre plays.

Private life Kruk married three times. For over fifteen years his wife was Elżbieta Dmoch, the co-founder of 2 Plus 1. The couple married in February 1973 and divorced in the late 1980s, after Janusz had left her for another woman.