Andrzej Skupiński attended the high school Juliusz Słowackiego in Chorzów, Poland. He studied Polish philology at the University of Silesia in Katowice.
Skupiński started his career teaching Polish in elementary schools. He then became a journalist for "Dziennik Śląski," a daily Polish newspaper. He joined the Union of Polish Authors and Composers in 1988.
He was involved in artistic activities on stage (cabaret, recitals, staging and realization of scenic events of the author). He wrote artistic texts for the needs of the stage and the film, he translated the texts of the classics of the American scene (swing & musical), as well as popular French, German and Russian music into Polish and Silesian. He has also consulted widely-graduated undergraduate and graduate degrees (Polish philology, musicology, history of art, general pedagogy, sociology of culture).