In Lucia, Viktor Dyk will sing instead of Koller. Drums Štěpán Smetáček – News

“Singing in Lucia is not a dream come true for me, because I never even thought of such an offer. We met together with the boys for the first time on February 7 this year, and since then I have been eternally happy, “<a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/viktor-dyk-will-be-lucies-new-singer-replacing-david-koller/" title="Viktor Dyk will be Lucie's new singer, replacing David Koller”>Viktor Dyk admitted.

“I’ve known Viktor since the early 1990s from his group Dorota BB. At that time, she played with us on tour as an opening act. Robert and I loved his singing, energy and enthusiasm. We have been good friends ever since. We met sometimes and always found common ground, which culminated in music. We grew up in the same bands,” explained the selection of a new member, bassist PB Ch.

“Victor is proof for me that there is basically no time, because a few minutes were enough and we immediately picked up where we left off, that is in a joint project. After the first rehearsals with the band, he became actively involved not only as a singer, but also as an excellent guitarist and keyboard player. He’s just a great musician,” he said.

Next year, in the autumn, Lucie will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of its creation with a series of concerts in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The birthday tour starts on November 9 with a show in Pilsen. After this there will be stops in Ostrava, Brno, Bratislava, Banská Bystrica and Košice. The tour will end on December 9 in the O2 arena in Prague.

“People who have been through or worked with the band will appear on stage. We are also negotiating with foreign congratulators, whose names will be revealed soon,” said Lucie’s guitarist, Robert Kodym.

The band is now working on an album, which should be called RADOST It will be released next year. “We want to continuously release new songs over the next year so that we have a complete birthday present before the tour,” explained Kodym.

In February of this year, singer and drummer David Koller announced that he has decided to leave the band Lucia and that he intends to devote himself to other musical projects and his family. His son, drummer Adam Koller, also left with him. Guitarist Robert Kodym, bassist PB Ch. and the keyboardist Michal Dvořák soon announced that they had already chosen a singer and a drummer and that they would announce their names in due course.

Lucie last played with David and Adam Koller at the end of August in Bezděz castle at the last show of the CZ Castles traveling festival series.

Viktor Dyk first attracted attention to himself as the singer of the rock group Dorota BB He recorded with her and in 1994 he released the album Santa Puelo. However, he left two years later and founded WAW in 1996.

Since 2009, he has been the singer of the band Gaia Mesiah, in which he replaced the first singer Marka Rybin. Collaboration with her lasted only two years. He was also a member of the bands Divine bodies, Soundtrack and Plavalaguna and played in the musicals Excalibur, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Němcová! and love is love. Since 2006, he has been a permanent member of the RockOpera group.

He is the co-author of the soundtracks for the films Snowboarders and Ro(c)k subversives, as well as the co-author and performer of the songs for the film Bestiář.

Štěpán Smetáček already played drums with Lucía in the nineties. Already while studying at the Prague Conservatory, he became a member of the metal band Řetěz and soon after he started playing in the group Arakain. A number of other projects, groups and activities followed.

Since 1995 he has been involved in the New Orchestra of Dreams project, in 2009 he founded the NTS group with Michal Nejtek and Petr Tichý. He was a member of Die El. Eleffant?!, performed by the Aleš Brichta Project, Žentour or the group Krausberry. It specializes in music direction, production and music mixing. He is currently a member of the band Wanastowi Vjecy, in which another member of Lucie, Robert Kodym, also plays.