Since the departure of the Czech singing legend Karla Gotta († 80) It has been six years on the first of October. Singer In mid -September 2019 he announced that he was suffering from acute leukemia. Hempero disorder was diagnosed by doctors a year and a half before. At the time of the announcement of this sad message, the document Karel was already filmingthat the director had after the baton Olga Špátová. According to the web, she now talked about what was happening not only in front of the camera, but also behind it.
“He changed him that he knew he was waiting for the last months of his life. And there I had the feeling that I was touching the meaning of life. Suddenly, I felt there as a person who appreciates every day, who is grateful for every meeting with people who enjoy being with his daughters, ” She succeeded in pulling his fanclub in the Café seminar under Charles Most.
“Every family moment, but also meeting friends, The memory of his political weakness, when he was not boldly building the previous regime, was suddenly all in my film in another light. Everything had a different meaning, ” added.
Although Gott has been very weak in recent months of his life and hardly talked, he visited the filmmakers in August, where he stood the original house of his parents. The whole nation then saw in the documentary as in the garden of the house, where his cousin Hanka lived at that time, When talking about how he listened to the funeral parades in his childhood, he cried. At that time, Špátová had to interrupt the shooting. Was exhausted and needed to drink, He said the Czech portal.
Karel Gott was born on 14 July 1939 in Pilsen. After moving to Prague he was trained as an electrician in CKD. His father has always insisted to learn and get an honest craft. The mother, in turn, supported his love for music.
Since 1957 he began to sing amateurly, and a year later he took part in the competition MEME NEW TALENTS IN Prague’s Slavic House. He was successful at the audience, but not with the jury. He started performing regularly in the well -known Alfa and Vltava cafes. In 1960 he took exams at the conservatory, studied singing at Konstantin Karenin.
The first stronger success was his participation in the program of Czechoslovak Television We are FEM FEM SIGN for the weekdays, where he sang together with his own Průkova song until we were twice Tolik. With the orchestra of Karel Vlach, he recorded the scrip of Pro Martin. The results of the Golden Slavik poll appeared in the first year in 1962. Waldemar Matuška won, Gott belonged to 49. The place, got three votes. He won the poll a year later.
In 1963 he received an engagement at the Prague Theater Semafor. The first performance in which he performed was Zuzana for no one at home. Gott sang three songs in it – Sáňa, eyes Sněhem, and the Woody. The song Eyes Sněhem has become the biggest hit of 1963. In Semaphor he met with his brothers Ladislav and Jiří Staidlovci, In 1965 they left to establish their own Apollo Theater. The first premiere was the program called Vacu Pro two.
In 1965, Supraphon released his first LP record called Karel Gott. In June 1966 he competed in the Bratislava Lyre with songs I have a fairy -tale house Vieroslav Matušík and send it Dál, which was composed by his colleague from the Apollo Theater Jaromír Klempíř. The fairy -tale house won the Golden Lyre. Artia released Gott’s first record under the name The Golden Voice of Prague, which was successful mainly in Germany.
At the beginning of 1967 he signed a contract with a German company Polydor, where he released his first single with the song Weisst du Wohin? Even the first album Die Goldene Stimme Aus Prag. In German -speaking countries with sold 450,000 records and Gott really got the attribute Golden Voice from Prague.
Karel Gott and the band performed in the Czechoslovak pavilion at the World Exhibition in Montreal, since June 1967 he performed with the Ladislav Štaida group at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, on the stage where Elvis Presley also sang. In March 1968 he represented Austria at the Eurovision Grand Prix with the song Tausend Fenster, composed by UDO Jürges. In October 1968 he won the gold medal at the Zlatý Kohút festival in Rio de Janeiro for the song Karel Svoboda and Jiří Štaida Lady Carnival.
Its popularity has continued to grow, as evidenced by the sale of the records and the Golden Slavik poll, in which he was always the first in 1969 – 1982. He was given the title of Merited Artist and April 30 for the exceptional artistic activity on May 3, 1977 1985 also the title of a national artist. Gott holds 22 Czechoslovak and 20 Czech Golden Slavic, owns more than 60 gold plates, seven diamond plates, He recorded approximately 2600 songs.
