Maniucha Bikont (PL)
Maniucha Bikont (born 1986) – singer, musician, anthropologist, participant in field research in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. She sings traditional, modern and authorial music, plays the tuba. Arranges songs, creates theatre and film music. A graduate of the Institute of Polish Culture and Artes Liberales, she also studied at the chair of ethnomusicology at the Music Academy in Kiev with Prof. Yevgen Yefremov (2010/2011). She holds a master’s degree from the Institute of Polish Culture and a doctorate from Artes Liberales. Three-time scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, winner of the Tournament of Real Musicians (2014), two-time winner of the New Tradition competition (2016, 2017), nominated for the Coryphaeus of Polish Music (2020, 2021). Vocalist of the bands Maniucha and Ksawery, Tęgie Chłopy, Niewte, Dziczka, Z lasu. She collaborates with Assaf Talmudi, Cezary Duchnowski and Radical Polish Ansambl, with Bartek Weber and the Aurora Collective, or the Prusinowski Kompania band. The most personal of her albums is Oj borom borom.