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Miklosz Deki Czureja grew up in a Roma family in southern Poland in Niedzica. His family comes from Hungary and Czech Republic. Many members from his family are also musicians and instrumentalists – his grandfather, Jan Czureja and his father, also Miklosz Czureja, are both violinists. However, the greatest influence on the artists’ creativity and musical development was his father, whom Miklosz inherited his talent from.
As a teenager Mikosz moved to Śląsk, where he studied at a music school. Later, in Poznań, he got a job with a Gypsy song and dance band, Roma. At the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s he began performing with the group, giving concerts in many places all over the world. During his career he worked, among others, with Sandor Lakatosz, a world-famous violinist, the Warsaw Studio Buffo Theatre and Michał Urbaniak.
The breakthrough in his solo career was the First International Roma Festival in Ciechocinek where Mikosz won the soloist Grand Prix award.
His career as a soloist continues to this day. Together with his family members, he also founded his own music band, Tatra Roma. The band consists of his daughter Sara, a great cimbalom player, his son Miklosz Marek – a singer, violinist, pianist and two twins, Sandra and Sylwia who dance and sing.
Mikosz works with the Bahtałe Roma (Happy Gypsies) – a foundation thanks to which the Miklosz Deki Czureja Private Music School in Poznań was established.
