Gienek Loska was a Belarusian-Polish singer, guitarist, and songwriter born Henadzi Loska on 8 January 1975 in Byelaazyorsk. He began playing guitar at age 14 and initially performed as a busker in the Minsk Metro. In 1990, he co-founded the blues rock band Seven B, which moved to Poland in 1992 and performed in Kraków until disbanding in 2006. Loska moved to Wrocław in 2004 and participated in the television program Szansa na Sukces. He gained national fame after winning the first season of the Polish X Factor in 2011. His debut studio album, Hazardzista, was released in November 2011 and achieved gold certification with sales exceeding fifteen thousand copies. He followed this with the 2013 album Dom. In 2016, Loska suffered a micro-stroke that forced him to retire from music. He sustained a massive stroke in May 2018 while visiting family in Belarus and remained in a coma for over two years. Loska died in Byelaazyorsk on 9 September 2020.
