On the occasion of the 82nd undead birthday of the legendary singer Karel Gott, the book Karel Gott: My Journey for Happiness was published, which, among other things, contains a lot of as yet unpublished information and documents. Among these is the now humorous story of how horribly the Master’s first television appearance turned out. He definitely didn’t become the darling of the crowd for the first time, on the contrary …
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One of the best Czech singers with international success Karel Gott he lived a long and full life that he could enjoy with everything.
He never hid his great weakness for the beautiful women who had roamed him all his life, and resisting them was practically a superhuman task.
One of the great flares gave rise to his oldest daughter Dominika Gottováwhich the Master has with the former dancer Antonia Zacpalova.
Secondborn Lucie Kovaříková was born after a passionate night of Karel Gott and Iveta Kolářová. At first, Karel did not even want to believe that Lucie was his, so he underwent paternity tests.
The last two daughter of Charlotte Ella Gott a Nelly Sofia Gott has Karel Gott with his the love of life Ivana Gottováwhich stood by him during his last and most difficult moments.
Karel Gott: The first television appearance was a fiasco
Karel Gott was really a phenomenon that was not just born. But he did not just lose his fame and glory. In the book Karel Gott: My Journey for Happiness, he describes his beginnings, which were not really easy.
In the chapter With the Bass in Pupp, with Shame on Television, Karel Gott describes his first and absolutely horrible experience from a television appearance.
“Singing with famous bandleaders such as Karel Vlach, Karel Krautgartner or Gustav Brom was the dream of every beginning singer, “he describes in the book.
And so the future Golden Nightingale stood on the stage in Lucerna and tried to sing so that they could be proud of him. Unfortunately, he missed the effect.
Karel Gott was so nervous that he messed up his verses, he didn’t succeed at all, and in the end he got tangled in the cord from the microphone and people thought that he was perhaps a better comedian than a singer.
“After that performance, I needed not to be. I perceived it as an absolute failure. In addition, live, “Karel describes in the book, saying that he wanted to sing a completely different kind of music, but this was supposed to be an opportunityhow to make yourself visible.
Karel Gott: Angry people wanted to smash screens because of my face
Karel Gott admits in his memories that he did not imagine his first television appearance in this way. After his performance, several outraged letters from viewers even came to television. Fortunately, Karl did not read the worst.
It said in them that he was a Master. “ugly monkey with legs in O“or”the face that made them want to slap the screen“.
“A person then wears such a parachute in his head all his life, “Gott describes in the book.”If I hear you sword once more on TV, I’ll come and light it there, so the management will deal with you., “was one of the milder comments.
At that time, it must have been a really terrible experience for a beginning musician, on the other hand, over time, it became a humorous incident that people still laugh at.
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