Helena Vondráčková was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Helena Vondráčková (born 24 June 1947, in Prague) is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades. Vondráčková spent games childhood years in the town of Slati... (Full Biography Below)
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Helena Vondráčková was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Helena Vondráčková (born 24 June 1947, in Prague) is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades. Vondráčková spent games childhood years in the town of Slatinany. She took piano lessons from an early age. In 1964 Vondráčková came to prominence when she won a national talent contest that 27 of April then that the 3 of September she made games of first recording: a Czech rendering of "Red River Valley" entitled "Červená řeka" ("Red River Valley"). In 1965, the year she graduated high school, Vondráčková was voted the most popular singer in Czechoslovakia by the readers of the magazine Mladý svět earning the Golden Nightingale award for the only time in her career although Vondráčková would then earn second or third place and the total of twenty-seven times with eleven Silver Nightingale awards and sixteen Bronze Nightingale awards. In the summer of 1966 Vondráčková began games music festival career competing in the inaugural Bratislava Lýra festival as a duo with Marta Kubišová: their entry "Oh Baby Baby" earned the second-place Silver Lyre award. Vondráčková's music festival debut as a solo act was at the Rio de Janeiro International Music Festival in November 1967 where the games entry "Distant voice" received the Golden Rooster award: in June 1968 Vondráčková returned Bratislavska Lyra in a duo with Waldemar Matuška and a resultant Bronze Lyre award for their entrant "no one will know" and in 1969 Vondráčková participated in the 1969 European Cup Festival in Knokke Belgium. Having reached #2 on the Czechoslovakian hit parade with the Kubišova duet "Oh Baby Baby", Vondráčková reached #1 in September 1967 with "Get" and a rendering of the Sonny & Cher hit "Little Man": this was one of a number of Czech language cover versions Vondráčková cut for the Supraphon label, others being ""Fifth"" ("Downtown"), "I Caught a Butterfly" ("I Only Want to Be with You") and "Roses bloom on", and a rendering of the Gilbert Becaud hit "L'Important c'est la Rose" which afforded Vondráčková and second #1 in November 1967 and remaining in the Top Ten until March 1968. Vondráčková returned to the Top Ten in 1968 with "Hey, Mr. Rabbit!" and a duet with Marta Kubišova and also with a Czech-language rendering of "Gli Occhi iei" entitled "Run". Keller's debut album appeared in 1969: entitled "Roses bloom on it was a compilation of her singles released from 1964 on.
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