Since the departure of the Czech singing legend Karel Gott († 80) passed six years on the first of October 2025. His legacy is also taken care of by wife Ivana (49), who often speaks to fans through social networks. Last year she published the anniversary on A collage from their private photos and wrote a long confession.
“The most expensive Karel! I can’t believe how incredibly quickly passed those five years without you! And how many things have happened in our country and in the world! You wouldn’t be surprised! Even if… still knew some events before most of us. Miss you! ” Ivana and She added that this day will forever be linked to her with a painful memory of his departure.
“Our beloved Kájo, your immortal soul must feel as happy today as everyone and everywhere at best remember. I have lived with you almost 20 years of wonderful life. You were all for me. Counselor, support, inspiration. Friends and husband who gave me two great daughters. I believe that I have been giving away the good that you always and everywhere, with her love and care returned. I also want to believe that my efforts to maintain your name up there makes you very happy. We are trying not to shame down here. And we know we don’t even do it. We remember you all three with the greatest love, humility and gratitude. You are forever in our hearts, ”she added.
This year, however, the memory of the Maestra was a bit more modest. Widow Ivana 1 October to the story on Instagram added only his photo with his heart. Photo can be found in the gallery! His fans or famous personalities did not forget the sad anniversary.
Gott’s grave in Prague’s Malvazinky that day adorned Fresh flowers and a number of lighted candles. The first to send the singer a traditional honor in the form of a wreath former President Milos Zeman. But he did not come and was represented by former politician Vladimír Kruis, he writes.
Karel good 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 was 49. 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 the traffic light he met his brothers Ladislav and Jiří Štaidlovci, 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 a 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.
Karel Gott and the band performed in the Czechoslovak pavilion at the World Exhibition in Montreal, Since June 1967 he performed with the group Ladislav Štaidla at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, on 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 awarded the title of Merited Artist and 30 April 1985 for his exceptional artistic activities.
Gott was the holder of 22 Czechoslovak and 20 Czech Golden Slavic, owned more than 60 gold plates, seven diamond records, recorded approximately 2600 songs. In the American city of Las Vegas he married on January 7, 2008, married Ivana Macháčková, who gave birth to two daughters Nelly Sofia and Charlotte Ell. From the illegitimate relationship, Gott had two adult daughters Dominica and Lucka.
