Piotr Łuszcz known as Magik (pol. Magician) (born March 18, 1978 in Jelenia Góra

Jelenia Góra

----Jelenia Góra is a city in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland. The name of the city means "deer mountain" in Polish, Czech and German. It is close to the Krkonoše mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border – ski resorts such as Karpacz and Szklarska Poręba can be found...

 - died December 26, 2000 in Katowice

Katowice

Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

) - Polish rapper, composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and a record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

. From 1994 to 1998 he was a member of the Polish hip hop group Kaliber 44

Kaliber 44

Kaliber 44 is a hip hop band formed at the end of 1993 in Katowice, Silesia, Poland by Piotr Łuszcz , Marcin Marten and Michał Marten . The group is dubbed the most influential Polish hip hop band, while their so-called Hardcore Psycho Rap style is the most prominent...

.

Soon after release of the group's second album "W 63 minuty dookoła świata" Magik left Kaliber 44 and together with Sebastian Salbert (Rahim) and Wojciech Alszer (Fokus) formed new band in 1998 called "Paktofonika

Paktofonika

Paktofonika was a Polish hip hop group from Katowice and Mikolow, which debuted with the album Kinematografia in 2000. The name Paktofonika comes from the words pakt and fonika , from which derives the idea of "A pact made alongside noise from a speaker", created by band's founders, Magik and...

". On 26 December 2000, at around 6:15, Łuszcz committed suicide by jumping out of the window of his apartment situated on the ninth floor of the building, in Katowice. At around 6:45, he was pronounced dead in a local hospital, leaving his wife Justyna, and a 3-year old son, Filip.

Discography

• Kaliber 44 - Usłysz Nasze Demo! (1994) (Demo)
• Kaliber 44 - Księga Tajemnicza. Prolog (1996)
• Kaliber 44 - W 63 minuty dookoła świata (1998)
• Paktofonika - Kinematografia (2000)
• Paktofonika - Archiwum Kinematografii (2002)