Igor Ramanovich Bancer (; ; ) is a Polish Belarusian musician, activist, journalist, worker, events organiser, and political prisoner. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Magazyn Polski and of the Głos znad Niemna ("Voice from over the Neman") in exile as well as the former spokesperson of the Union of Poles in Belarus. Bancer is perhaps best known as the founder and singer of the Grodno-based streetpunk band Mister X, though he also served as head of the "Grodno Rock-club". Childhood and early life Born in Minsk, then largest city in the Byelorussian SSR and now the capital of the Republic of Belarus, Igor moved with his family to Grodno in 1986. There he attended school number 25 (it is customary in Eastern Europe to name primary schools with numbers). In 1997 he became a member of the Малады Фронт organisation; in the same year he began working as a journalist for the "" newspaper. From 1997 until 2002, Bancer lived in Warszawa – capital of Poland – where he studied international relations at the local university. During his stay in Poland he actively took part in efforts to promote the democratisation of Belarus, cooperating with Belarusian political migrants and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. After returning to Belarus he worked as a journalist for several Russian language opposition magazines. Igor was also editor-in-chief of the Polish-language monthly publication Magazyn Polski in 2007. Musical career Ever since 2003, when with Boris from Oi! Bombers he founded the Mister X streetpunk band, he has been the group's primary vocalist. The whole band, including Igor, identify as SHARP and form part of the anti-racist skinhead and Oi! scene in West Belarus. Partially thanks to Bancer's fluency in Polish, Mister X have become well known on the underground punk scene in Poland, where they are often referred to as "the most well-known Belarusian punk rock band" and "the flagship of Belarusian street punk". Since their formation, the band have toured with Igor in many European countries outside of their usual venues of Belarus, Poland, Russia, Latvia, and Lithuania – including Germany and other Western European countries. Depending on the song, Igor writes his lyrics and records his vocals in Russian, Polish, English, or Belarusian. Although Igor and his band's self-proclaimed apolitical stance initially led to them being somewhat ostracised on the then highly politicised Belarusian punk scene, it has not gotten