Wilki are a Polish Alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

/Pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 band from Warsaw. They, along with their contemporaries Myslovitz

Myslovitz

Myslovitz is a Polish rock band, whose music incorporates elements of college rock, shoegazing, and, arguably, Britpop. Since 2003, EMI Group has been attempting to establish them internationally, with considerable support from MTV Europe...

, are one of Poland's most popular rock bands.

Wilki have written songs both in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

. Wilki means wolves in Polish. They are currently signed to Sony Music in Poland.

Discography

• 1992r. Wilki (MJM Music Pl) (Wolves)
  • 1992r. Son of the Blue Sky
  • 1994r. Eli Lama Sabahtani

• 1993r. Przedmieścia (MJM Music Pl) (Suburbs)

• 1993r. Live (Sony Music Polska)

• 1994r. Acousticus Rockus (MJM Music Pl)
  • 1994r. Moja "Baby" (My Baby"
  • 1994r. N'Avoie

• 2000r. Wilki i R. Gawliński - największe przeboje (MJM Music Pl/Sony Music Polska) (Greatest Hits)

• 2002r. 4 (Pomaton EMI 2002)
  • 2002r. Baśka (Barbara)
  • 2002r. Urke
  • 2003r. Ja ogień ty woda (Me Fire You Water)
  • 2003r. Here I Am

• 2004r. Watra (Pomaton EMI) (Watch-fire)
  • 2004r. Bohema
  • 2005r. Słońce pokonał cień (The Sun overcome by the shadow)

• 2006r. Obrazki (Wilki Records Music for EMI) (Pictures)
  • 2006r. Na zawsze i na wieczność (Forever and ever)
  • 2007r. Love story..

Influences

Wilki's influence comes from bands of 1980s. Especially Post-punk

Post-punk

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 bands, such as U2

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

 and The Cure

The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...

. Lead singer and guitarist

Guitarist

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 Robert Gawliński

Robert Gawlinski

Robert Gawliński is the lead singer and guitarist of the Polish pop rock band Wilki. He was born on 31 August 1963 in Warsaw.-External links:* * *...

 enjoyed these bands in his teenage years.