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Karel Gott | |
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Also known as | Golden Voice of Prague[1] (Czech: Zlatý hlas z Prahy) Sinatra of the East[2] (Czech: Sinatra Východu) Divine Charlie[3] (Czech: Božský Kája) |
Born | Plzeň, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | 14 July 1939
Died | 1 October 2019 Prague, Czech Republic | (aged 80)
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Years active | 1958–2019 |
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Website | www |
Karel Gott (14 July 1939 – 1 October 2019) was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.[5][6] 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",[5][7] 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,[5] 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.[8]
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