Ewa Demarczyk (born January 16, 1941 in Kraków, Poland) is a Polish cabaret singer. Her songs convey strong emotions of the counter-culture movement in Poland during the 1970's and 1980's. At the time, Poland was ruled under a puppet government created by Moscow. The Polish citizens not only detested foreign rule over their country, but they were also tormented by the communistic system of economy, justice and censorship. Because of censorship, her songs are not ostentatiously anti-communistic; however, through subtle means of imagery, symbolism and metaphors that implicitly refers to the Western concepts of freedom, she expresses the public discontent of the government. This is one of the outstanding features of her music. Apart from her great musical talent, she also expressed a censorship worthy political concept, without the knowing of its censors. While her songs are often based on poems of greatly appreciated "classical" poets (Julian Tuwim, Krzysztof Kami