The band was to release a new album called Testamentum this year, canceling their planned concert tour due to the coronary crisis. Omega was the most successful rock band of the former Eastern bloc and in 1978 won a gold record in West Germany for 250,000 Skyrover albums sold.
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The most famous composition of the group became Gyöngyhajú lány (Girl with pearls in her hair), which was sung in Czech by Aleš Brichta and also became famous thanks to the German group Scorpions.
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The group was founded by a group of university students in 1962 in Budapest. Apart from Benkő, the founding members also included singer János Kóbor and drummer József Laux. Drummer Laux and keyboardist Gábor Presser founded the Locomotiv GT group in 1971. At that time, Benkő definitely became a keyboard player.
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Omega has often performed in the Czech Republic. In October 2019, she played in Třinec and Pardubice. She has also repeatedly sold out Prague’s Lucerna.
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