Karel Gott

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Karel Gott
Gott in 2002
Background information
Also known as	Golden Voice of Prague (Czech: Zlatý hlas z Prahy) Sinatra of the East[1] (Czech: Sinatra Východu) Divine Charlie[2] (Czech: Božský Kája)
Born	(1939-07-14)14 July 1939 Plzeň, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Died	1 October 2019(2019-10-01) (aged 80) Prague, Czech Republic
Genres	Pop rock'n'roll swing blues country operetta
Occupations	Singer songwriter painter
Years active	1958–2019
Labels	Supraphon[3] Polydor Electrola Melodiya Amiga
Website	www.karelgott.com

Karel Gott (14 July 1939 – 1 October 2019) was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.^[4][5] He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual Český slavík (Czech Nightingale) national music award 42 times, most recently in 2017.

He achieved considerable success in the German-speaking countries, where he was known as "the Golden Voice of Prague",^[4][6] winning the Goldene Stimmgabel award three times (1982, 1984, and 1995).

Over the course of his career he released over 100 albums and 100 compilation albums,^[4] and sold an estimated 50–100 million records worldwide, 23 million of them in the German-speaking market, and about 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.^[7]