Karel Gott
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Karel Gott (14 July 1939-2020) was a Czech recording artist and amateur painter, considered the Czech Republic's most popular male singer.
He was named the country's best male singer in the annual Cesk slav (Czech Nightingale) national music competition 42 times, the most recent in 2017. He had a lot of success in the German-speaking world, where he was known as "the Golden Voice of Prague" three times (1982, 1984, and 1995). He recorded over 100 albums and 100 compilation albums in his career, including 23 million in the German-speaking world and around 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Early life
Gott was born in Pilsen, Czech Republic's Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and he lived in Prague from the age of six. Gott intended to study art but failed the exams at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM), and so trained as an electrician. After finishing his studies, he began working as an electrician but soon became interested in the Prague music scene, particularly jazz. He experimented with playing the bass and the guitar, but eventually decided to focus on singing and studying privately. He appeared as an amateur singer and regularly competed in contests in the 1950s.
Personal life
He had two children (Dominika and Lucie) from various former marriages. Charlotte (born in April 2006) and Nelly (born in May 2008) married in Las Vegas, and they had two children, Ivana Machárková, and Nelly (born in May 2008).
Gott began focusing on painting in the 1990s. His first exhibition of his paintings took place in 1992 at the Prague Christ Child Gallery, and his exhibition has since been seen in Berlin, Moscow, Munich, Cologne, Vienna, and Bratislava.
Early career
He was an unsuccessful participant in a amateur singing competition in Prague's named "Looking for New Talent" but he did win his first performance slots at the Vltava Prague Cafe the same year.
In 1960, he decided to become a professional singer. Konstantin Karenin, a pupil of Russian bassist Feodor Chaliapin, studied opera at the Prague Conservatory. Karenin told Gott that he was interested in current musical trends, but also in popular music. During this time, Gott travelled abroad (to Poland) for the first time, with the Czechoslovak Radio Jazz Orchestra conducted by Karel Krautgartner.
Gott recorded his first single with Supraphon in 1962, a duet with jazz singer Vlasta Próchová entitled A'm bude dvat tolik (When we are twice as old). Gott was ranked 49th in the first Zlatslav (Golden Nightingale) national poll this year, placing 49th with three votes. Gott left the conservatory in 1963 to continue with private singing lessons until 1966.
Gott was offered a seat at the newly established Semafor Theater, which was at the forefront of the Czechoslovak pop music scene's revival. He released his first solo album, a Czech rendition of Henry Mancini's Moon River, in the same year, followed by his song O'sn't zaváté (Snowdrift Eyes), which became the year's best-selling album. Gott received the first of forty-two Zlat slav awards, which are given to the year's most popular artist.
Gott and two colleagues from Semafor: Ji and Ladislav taidl formed the Apollo Theater in 1965. He was already well known to the public at this time, appearing in Pilgrimage for Two and Evening Prayer while also constructing a repertoire with his own orchestra. He began writing his own songs and performed with the Apollo Theater in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere. Karel Gott Sings with Supraphon was his first album, followed by an English export album titled The Golden Voice of Prague (Artia-Supraphon).
Gott appeared at Midem, the French music industry trade fair, in Cannes, France, where the applause was recorded during every performance. Gott's result stunned observers by scoring at 54 (compared to Tom Jones' 58). Gott began working with the Polydor/Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft record company, renewing it several times until it became a life contract in 1997. Karel Gott's album and 72 singles were released in German-speaking countries between 1967 and 2000. Gott performed Austria with the song Tausend Fenster, finishing in 13th place in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968. Gott spent six months at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in the same year.
Comeback and later career
Gott again won the eskslave (Czech Nightingale) in 1996 and received the award every year since, with the exception of 1998 and 2012. He was well-known in a variety of countries and his international reputation was strong outside of Czech Republic. He appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York City on September 29, 2000.
He appeared on Bushido's album Heavy Metal Payback in 2008, a cover of Alphaville's "Forever Young" ad.
He received a Distinguished Merit Award from the Czech state in 2009.
Filip Albrecht, his German lyricist from 2001, wrote over 20 songs for him. Gott's autobiography Zwischen zwei Worlds was published in May 2014.
Gott released his last song and music video in May 2019, just months before he died, a duet with his daughter Charlotte titled "Srdce nehasnou" (Hearts don't fade). Gott's health problems were kept private from the media at the time, but after Gott died, songwriter Richard Krajo said he had been asked to write the duet in a short time.