Slovak singer Pavol Habera (64) recently (April 18) with their band Team, they had a concert in one of the luxury hotels in the High Tatras. She couldn’t miss there with her cameras either. She captured several funny moments during the performance, including the singer’s retirement story.
“Recently, a friend asked me if I knew about the fact that I already had a pension. Did I really? When I told Daniela, she just said: ‘That will be for our children’s pocket money.’ Now I was looking at the account, guys, I have…. euros. And every day I have free public transport,” an uncompromising judge from talent competitions joked in front of the audience. The creamer drank a specific amount.
He also amused those present when he noticed that Ján Tribula was at the concert. “If he puts the pension incident on TV, I’ll kill him. The girls can’t know I’m so old, okay? I’m still living in the bowels of the old days… I’ve already talked about the age when a denture accidentally falls out,” added Habera.
Pavol Habera, named Pavel in his baptismal certificate, was born on April 12, 1962 in Brezno. In elementary school, he went to a music school to play the violin, but he didn’t really enjoy it. At Christmas 1975, his parents gave him his first guitar – a Spanish one. A year later, while studying at the High School of Engineering, he played in the first high school band Small. It changed several names, the last one was 3MH (Muriňák, Mikloško, Mirilovič, Habera).
In 1983, when he was already a student at the University of Economics (VŠE) in Bratislava, he took part in the first singing competition – the Jihlava Young Song festival. He finished third with two of his own songs, Children and Tiredness, Ingrid Kálmanová (later the group Madam) won, second was Petr Sepéši. During his university studies, he sang in the groups Tristo hrmených and Burčiak. He graduated in 1985 and during the subsequent basic military service, which he completed in the Military Art Ensemble in Tábor, he played in the army band for one year.
Although he studied economics, he preferred music. After completing his basic military service in 1986, his first group was Avion, headed by Fero Griglák. After a year they broke up and in 1987 he joined the group Team. In the summer of 1988, the group released their first album, which included hits such as Nároční, Reklama na ticho and Malá nočná burka. The album brought success to the group, sales exceeded a quarter of a million units.
In 1989, the second LP was released Prichytený pri živote with the hits Lietam v tom zoto, Prievan v pěnaženke and Pieňe pře nesmelych and in 1990 another very successful LP Team 3 with the hits Držím ti sjeto and Severanka.
In 1991, Pavol Habera released his first solo album called Habera. His hits include Je to vo hvětje and Láska necetuj te train. He released eleven albums with the group Team, the last one under the name Team 11 was released in November 2007. The song Kako poło was a hit from it. Pavol Habera also released six solo albums, the sixth – To sa stave, was released in 2006.
In 1996, together with Peter Dvorský, Karl Gott, and the Slovak Philharmonic, he recorded the album Svet lakušu mátwo years later the album Christmas Concerts with Peter Dvorský was released, and in 1999 the album Christmas Star, also with Peter Dvorský.
In 1992, he appeared on stage for the first timehe played in the rock opera Evangelium o Maria directed by Jozef Bednárik at the New Stage in Bratislava, as well as in the musicals Jozef and his Miraculous Color Cloak (1994) and The Three Musketeers (2004). He played the main role of a truck driver who was lured by music in the movie Fontána Pre Zuzanu 2 (1993).
Habera is the holder of four Czechoslovak Golden Nightingales, three times with the group Team, in 1989, 1990 and 1991 and one solo, in the last category of singers in 1991. After the division of Czechoslovakia and the resumption of the Slávik poll in Slovakia, he won the first two golden sláviks in 1998 and 1999.
As a stable judge of the singing competition Slovakia is looking for a Superstar and the Czech Slovak Superstar earned the nickname “the executioner”. He lives in Prague with his partner, model Danielová Peštová, they have a daughter Ella Joy and a son Paul Henry. He has a daughter Zuzana from his first marriage.
