[1] Wydra's first music band, Nadzieja (Hope), existed for two years and played punk rock.

He took part in a popular Polish TV show Szansa na sukces (Chance for success) in 2001 and achieved respect but was not the winner.

He performed again in the same show in February of the following year, singing a song by Ryszard Rynkowski and being chosen by him as the winning participant.

but the jury decided that Poland would be represented by another band, Feel with their song A gdy jest już ciemno.

He strongly criticized illegal downloading of his work from the Internet in one of his most recent interview, going so far as to claim once that it was worse than murder.