With his songs, he has reached the hearts of millions. Even the Iron curtain couldn’t stop Karel Gott’s impact career. Now the singer has died at the age of 80 years.
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Karel Gott died
In July, the singer of Hits such as “Maya the bee” and “Lady Carneval” had with family and friends on his 80. Celebrated the birthday. The Czech pop star was suffering from acute leukemia, as he revealed to the Public recently. “I don’t want to bother you guys with my problems,” he wrote to his Fans on Facebook.
In front of around one and a half years, a disease of the bone marrow, which affects the formation of blood had been discovered in him a Myelodysplastic syndrome. Now he has lost the battle against the disease. He died late on Tuesday evening (1.10.2019), his wife Ivana told the press.
There is hardly a singer stand on the stage as Karel Gott. The Germans hailed him as the “Golden voice from Prague” and the “Sinatra of the East”. With his song of the “small, sassy, clever bee Maja”, a Fernsehhit from the 1970s, he landed a catchy tune. In his Czech homeland of Karel Gott’s hits accompanied, however, whole generations in the time of the first love.
With the Song of the “Little bee Maja” he was known around the world
Female Fans worshipped him
His sly Smile, the friendly manner, the clear voice with the typical Czech accent – this mix wowed the Fans today, particularly the female. “I think I’ve addressed the Maternal in women, the heart,” God said recently in one of his last Interview with the Hamburg magazine “Stern”. Mostly it was the women who visited his concerts.
It was pure luck that Gott’s vocal qualities have not gone unnoticed. Because first of all, the young Pilsener completed an apprenticeship as an electrical fitter in Prague and appeared only incidentally in coffee houses. Then, the breakthrough in 1963, he succeeded with the victory in the Czechoslovak music competition “the Golden Nightingale”.
30 million records sold
The song “you Know where” from Dr. Zhivago was made known to him in 1967 in what was then West Germany. “Lady Carneval”, “The world was beautiful” (both 1968), or “Babička” (1979) are among the better-known of his more than 900 songs that Karel has published God alone in Germany.
Karel Gott sang the German Schlager, with its special accent
He was initially in the ZDF hit parade, and later in TV Shows, such as the Rudi Carell Show, for example, the James Last Show, or in the case of “Ein Kessel Buntes”, and the popular Carmen-Nebel-Show. His discography includes about 120 albums, around 30 million records sold, the pop singer estimated.
Karel Gott worked with music publishers from all over Europe and in the United States and Japan. His shots appeared in a number of countries in the world. Although he sang in many languages, were his albums in Czech and English on the most successful.
The last Hit was a Youtube success
“Maya flies through her world shows us what she likes”, – said in his song of the bee Maja. God lent his voice in 1977, the title song of the same name ZDF on the animated television series. And how the TV bee, so also God from the cost of the freedoms of the artist’s life: He traveled the world, sang in the Moscow Kremlin, as well as in New York’s Carnegie Hall, in Rio de Janeiro in Tokyo. He travelled, as it was called in one of his songs: “Once around the entire world and the bags full of money”.
Karel Gott with the Rapper Bushido
This Karel Gott happened to the Iron curtain, as it pleased him. He crossed musical Genre boundaries, as he took in 2008 a Song with the Rapper Bushido. And finally, he entered this year, the stage with his 13-year-old daughter Charlotte. In a duet, they sang “Srdce nehasnou” – in English “hearts expire”. The video clip has been clicked on the Internet a million times.
Close to communism?
The truth about Karel Gott and his alleged Loyalty to the Communist Regime of Czechoslovakia belongs to. Critics in the Czech Republic accuse him of, to have, at the time, the Communist party initiated the “anti-Charter” is a co-signatory. With her turned artist publicly against the democratic ideas of the “Charter 77” of the later President Václav Havel. Until recently, God denied the proximity to communism.
Only in 2008, as a 68-Year-old, had Karel Gott married his wife, Ivana. With her he had two daughters. Two more daughters were from previous Connections. His youngest daughters, he gave this advice on the path of life: “don’t Prepare, that it always remains so, and enjoys that it is now. Enjoy the moment, each new, beautiful day!”