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Karel Gott
Karel Gott was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual Český slavík national music award 42 times, most recently in 2017.
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Born 14 July 1939 · Died 1 October 2019 · Q333187
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2023· 1 entry
2020· 1 entry
Awarded Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion (2020).
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2019· 2 entries
Yahoo: Karel Gott, 'the Czech Sinatra,' dies at 80
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Died 2019-10-01.
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2009· 4 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Plzeň (2009).
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Awarded Hall of Fame of the Plzeň Region (2009).
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Won Czech Medal of Merit presented by Václav Klaus (2009).
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Was awarded a Distinguished Merit Medal by the Czech state
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2008· 1 entry
Appeared on Bushido's album Heavy Metal Payback, performing a duet called "Für immer jung", a cover of "Forever Young" by Alphaville
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Boulder Prize (2002).
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Duety”.
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1996· 5 entries
Released album “Belcanto”.
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Released album “Cesta rájem”.
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Following renewed public interest in his career, Gott again won the Český slavík (Czech Nightingale), and won the accolade every year since, with the exception of 1998 and 2012
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Released album “Pár havraních copánků”.
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Released album “Pošli to dál”.
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “Zázrak vánoční”.
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Won Goldene Stimmgabel (1995).
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Released album “Originální Nahrávky Z 80. Let”.
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Released album “Only You”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Karel Gott '95”.
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1993· 3 entries
Established an artistic agency, GOJA, with František Janeček, which now produces Gott's records and manages his artistic activities
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Released album “Mitten im Leben”.
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Released album “Věci blízké mému srdci”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Když muž se ženou snídá”.
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Released album “In einer Nacht wie heut'”.
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At the Prague Christ Child Gallery, and his work was since exhibited in Berlin, Moscow, Munich, Cologne, Vienna, and Bratislava
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1990· 8 entries
Released album “Ein Abend mit Karel Gott”.
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Gott announced the end of his career and arranged a long farewell tour
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Released album “In dieser Nacht”.
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Released album “Písmo Lásky”.
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Released album “Rock'n'Roll Party”.
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Released album “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons”.
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Released album “Frühling in Prag mit dir”.
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Released album “Country Hits”.
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1989· 4 entries
Awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples (1989).
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Released album “Ich will dich so wie du bist”.
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Gott was often confronted by journalists for this act, however he denied any wrongdoing for many years, saying that he did not know what he was signing
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Released album “Loď snů”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “You Are Everywhere”.
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Posel dobrých zpráv”.
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Released album “Karel Gott & Darinka Rolincová”.
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Released album “Kein Blick zurück”.
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1986· 3 entries
To mark 20 years with the company, he received Polydor's Golden Needle, previously only awarded to Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan
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Released album “To vám byl dobrý rok”.
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Released album “Weil ich dich liebe”.
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded Národní umělec (1985).
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Released album “Es war ein gutes Jahr”.
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Released album “Muzika”.
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1984· 3 entries
Released album “Karel”.
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Won Goldene Stimmgabel (1984).
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Released album “Hrátky s láskou”.
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1983· 6 entries
Released album “Zeichen”.
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Released album “Du bist da für mich”.
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Released album “...a to mám rád”.
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Released album “White Christmas”.
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Gott was awarded the Gold Medal of Hermann Löns in Munich, Germany, for his role in the development of German traditional song
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Released album “Koncert Pro Tebe - Just For You”.
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1982· 4 entries
Won Goldene Stimmgabel (1982).
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Released album “Kontrasty”.
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Released album “Heute”.
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Released album “Bílé Vánoce”.
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1981· 5 entries
Released album “Bella Italia”.
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Released album “Und die Sonne wird wieder scheinen”.
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With an accompanying German-Italian album, and a duet performance with Sofia Rotaru in the Soviet Union
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Released album “Guten Abend gute Laune”.
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Released album “Country Album”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Karel Gott dnes”.
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1979· 5 entries
Released album “Meine Lieder '79”.
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Released album “Amore Mio”.
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Released album “Karel Gott '79”.
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Released album “Alle Jahre wieder - Die schönsten Weihnachtslieder gesungen von Karel Gott”.
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Released album “My Romantic Feeling”.
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Gute Reise”.
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Released album “Romantika”.
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1977· 3 entries
Released album “Ein besonderer Klang”.
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While Soviet troops were still present in the country
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Released album “Karel Gott '78”.
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1976· 7 entries
Released album “Donauwellen”.
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Released album “Die neue LP”.
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Released album “Meine Sonntagsmelodie”.
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Released album “Gala '76”.
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Released album “Singet und freut Euch des Lebens”.
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Released album “Karel Gott '77”.
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Released album “Musik und Tanz durch Böhmen und Mähren mit Karel Gott”.
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1975· 6 entries
Released album “Rosa Rosa”.
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Released album “Karel Gott '76”.
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Released album “Hvězda padá vzhůru”.
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Released album “From My Czech Song-Book”.
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Released album “Böhmische Kirmes”.
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Released album “Melodie, které nestárnou”.
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1974· 3 entries
Released album “Hudba není zlá”.
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Released album “Karel Gott 1974”.
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Released album “Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben”.
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1973· 5 entries
Released album “Dieses Land ist mein Land”.
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Released album “Mezi Vltavou, Donem a Dunajem”.
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Released album “Mistral”.
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Released album “La Canzone”.
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Released album “Tesoros del pasado”.
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1972· 5 entries
Released album “Komm zu mir”.
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Released album “Má píseň”.
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Released album “Zwischen Moldau, Don und Donau”.
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Released album “Hol' die Welt in dein Haus”.
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Released album “Schätze der Vergangenheit”.
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1971· 4 entries
Released album “Von Böhmen in die Welt”.
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Released album “Grüsse von der Moldau”.
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Released album “Von Romeo an Julia”.
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Released album “Weißt du wohin”.
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1970· 4 entries
With the song Einmal um die ganze Welt and was a star in both West Germany and East Germany
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Released album “Der Star meines Lebens”.
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Released album “Karel Gott”.
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Released album “Einmal um die ganze Welt”.
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1969· 5 entries
Released album “Weihnachten in der Goldenen Stadt”.
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Released album “In einer Welt für uns zwei”.
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Released album “In mir klingt ein Lied”.
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Released album “Poslouchejte - Karel Gott zpívá lásku bláznivou a další hity”.
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Released album “Vánoce ve zlaté Praze”.
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1968· 2 entries
Released album “Die Stimme aus dem goldenen Prag”.
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Released album “Die goldene Stimme aus Prag”.
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1967· 2 entries
Gott performed at Midem, the music industry trade fair in Cannes, France, where the applause was measured during every concert
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Released album “Hlas můj nech tu znít”.
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1966· 2 entries
Released album “The Golden Voice of Prague”.
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Released album “Recital Karla Gotta”.
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “Zpívá Karel Gott”.
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Along with two colleagues from Semafor: Jiří and Ladislav Štaidl
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1963· 2 entries
Gott was offered a place at the recently founded Semafor Theater, which was at the forefront of the emerging Czechoslovak pop music scene, his first significant experience of stage performance
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Gott left the conservatory to continue with private singing lessons until 1966
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1962· 1 entry
Gott released his first single with Supraphon, a duet with the jazz singer, Vlasta Průchová entitled Až nám bude dvakrát tolik (When we are twice as old)
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1960· 1 entry
Decided to become a professional singer
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1958· 1 entry
Was an unsuccessful participant in an amateur singing contest in the Prague Slavonic House, entitled "Looking for New Talent", but succeeded in obtaining his first performance slots at the Vltava Prague Cafe that same
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-07-14.
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