“Víťa was a friend of mine, we had a great piece of youth together. He has participated in some of our programs. We had a lot of experiences together, mostly cheerful. When you experience something with someone in your youth, it is forever. Even though he was very bad at it lately, we sometimes called, “said Šíp.
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“We have known each other since 1974, when I took over the whole band of Karel Šíp Pharaoh. He was a rocker, I wrote rock stuff for him then. Then I say, this is not the way to go. And I started ordering songs like Welcome to the Love That Won the Triangle, ”said Hannig. “Vitus became a superstar thanks to Girl Gloria,” Hannig added.
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The singer and drummer died last Thursday at the age of 68 as a result of a lung tumor. In the 1980s, he released sentimental songs such as The Girl with the Lemon Scarf, The Girls from the Gym and The Girl from the Chamomile Village.
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Vítězslav Vávra in 2016
Photo: Profimedia.cz
From 1975 he performed with the band Maximum by Petr Hannig, in 1983 he founded his own band Monogram, where he not only sang, but also played the drums. He recorded four full-length records. In 1981, he was third in the Golden Nightingale poll.
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In 1984 he married the singer Věra Špinarová. He remarried after the divorce, but the marriage also did not last. In recent years he has suffered from severe health problems, he could not move.
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