Helena Vondrácková

Among the Czech Republic’s most widely used pop performers, Helena Vondrácková offers were able to sustain a profession for five years — zero mean feat — but also offers been able to keep up her popularity when confronted with the momentous switch, both culturally and socially, that occurred with nov the Soviet Union and the next dissolution from the past Czechoslovakia at the start from the 1990s. Given birth to in Prague on June 24, 1947, Helena 1st explored music as a kid, acquiring piano lessons young. Her first achievement within the music globe happened in 1964 when she received a national skill show, and soon later on released the solitary “Cervena Reka” (Crimson River Valley). Following that, she were able to win increasingly more plaudits on her behalf skills, and graduated from college. The to begin the many globe moves that Vondrácková’s skill would provide her arrived when she was selected to represent Czechoslovakia in a event in Rio de Janeiro in 1967. In 1969, Vondrácková released her 1st recording, Ruze Kvetou Dal, a assortment of her early singles from your years 1964-1969. In 1971 she starred in her 1st headlining concert, Helena 71, and the next 12 months toured the Soviet Union and Japan. Whilst in Japan, Helena documented her initial foreign-language record, Isle of Helena, and spent a lot of the 10 years touring the planet, going to countries in European countries, Asia, and North and SOUTH USA. She started the ’80s similar to she spent the ’70s, on tour — this time around in Canada, and in 1984 hosted her initial tv program, Sejdeme Se Na Vysluni. Because the ’80s provided method to the ’90s, and most of Europe is at the throes of modification, she reached the milestone of offering a million albums, performed within the Czech concert Helena 90, and got on the function of Fantine in Les Miserables. In 1993, Vondrácková released two Broadway-themed musical albums, one in Czech and something in British, each entitled The Broadway Record. The multilingual vocalist modernized her sound for 2000’s Vodopad, and have scored lots one hit. During the period of the first 10 years of the brand new hundred years, Vondrácková continued release a records to healthful critical and industrial reaction, in addition to performing in several well-received concerts. Vondrácková’s intensive profession got the package arranged treatment in 2005 using the four-CD arranged The Golden Collection viewing release that 12 months, in addition to publication of her memoir, entitled I RECALL and I Don’t Regret Anything. Vondrácková continuing to maintain a higher profile, appearing within the Slovak edition of the tv screen talent reality display Dance with the Celebrities in 2006, along with a 12 months later appearing within the Polish edition. A 2007 compilation, Jsem Jaka Jsem, was after that released, and handled a high Ten placement within the Czech charts.