Pilsen native Karel Gott would have celebrated his eighty fifth birthday immediately, Sunday, July 14, 2024. Essentially the most well-known Czech singer turned an honorary citizen of town of Pilsen on November 2, 2009.
Who would not know Girl Carneval, Hey, gents aldermen, I am going to sweeten my espresso, The place’s your hen’s nest, I’ve to handle it myself, Maya the Bee, When a person has breakfast with a lady or the unforgettable New Yr’s Eve opera with Waldemar Matuska… these are only a few of greater than two thousand songs that Karel Gott sang throughout his profession.
The a number of winner of the Golden Nightingale and Czech Nightingale was born in Pilsen on July 14, 1939. He lived within the West Bohemian metropolis along with his dad and mom till 1945, after which the household moved to Prague. Karel Gott skilled as an electrician, within the Nineteen Fifties he started performing as an novice singer and collaborating in singing competitions. Within the early Sixties, he started learning singing on the Prague Conservatory. A milestone in his profession was a proposal to hitch the Semafor theater in 1962, a yr later he gained his first Golden Nightingale.
Round 50 million copies of his data have been offered since 1965, making Karel Gott essentially the most profitable Czech performer. He launched greater than 290 solo albums overseas and on the home scene, along with “nightingales” he acquired over 120 tv awards, 32 Gold data, 1 Supraphon Diamond report (for 13 million offered audio carriers along with his recordings within the years 1962 – 1992 (13 million offered audio carriers represented 86% of the inhabitants of Czechoslovakia on the time – for instance, Michael Jackson must promote 215 million data within the USA alone throughout his profession to attain the identical degree of recognition in a single nation as Karel Gott), 5 Supraphon Silver Information, 7 Platinum Information for profitable audio gross sales carriers with Karel Gott’s recordings, which had been awarded to the performer by Supraphon and GOJA, the Gott-Janeček company, and lots of others.
Karel Gott sang round 2,500 songs in complete. He collaborated with many necessary artists right here and overseas. He’s among the many 5 best-selling performers within the historical past of German music. His best-selling album was Karel Gott, sung in Russian. In Czechoslovakia, the Christmas album Christmas in Golden Prague turned the best-selling album, which remains to be exported all around the world immediately.
The Golden Nightingale died in his sleep on the age of 80 earlier than midnight on October 1, 2019.
