Anna Jantar
Polish singer (1950-1980)
Anna Jantar (Anna Maria Kukulska, born Anna Maria Szmeterling; 10 June 1950 – 14 March 1980) was a Polish singer and the mother of singer Natalia Kukulska.
Early and personal life
Jantar was born in Poznań on 10 June 1950, one of two children born to Hungarian Józef Szmeterling (1925–1997) and Halina, née Surmacewicz (1924–2016). On 1 July 1950, she was baptized at the Church of Holy Saviour in Poznań, receiving the names Anna Maria.
From an early age, showed a talent for singing. For almost three years, she attended a music kindergarten at the State Higher School of Music, where she studied piano. At the age of fourteen, she was invited by Piotr Kuźniak to join the big-beat music group Szafir. She attended Adam Mickiewicz High School in Poznań, from 1965 to 1969 and Secondary Music School in Poznań.
In 1969, she passed the exam at the State Theatre school in Warsaw, but was not accepted due to priority given to students from working-class and rural families.
Jantar married Polish composer Jarosław Kukulski (26 May 1944 – 13 September 2010) on 11 April 1971; the couple had one child, a daughter, singer Natalia Kukulska. A widower after Jantar's 1980 death, he remarried after her death to singer Monika Borys, by whom he had a second child, Piotr.
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