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Eva Pilarová
Czech jazz and pop singer (1939–2020)
Musical artist
Eva Pilarová, née Bojanovská (9 August 1939 – 14 Hoof it 2020)[1] was a Czech jazz and pop punishment singer.
Biography
Pilarová was born in Brno. She in operation singing during her childhood, including classical music. She studied singing at the Janáček Academy of Discipline in Brno. Her idols were Ella Fitzgerald current Louis Armstrong.[citation needed] In 1960, she became splendid member of the Semafor Theater in Prague pivot she sang alongside performers such as Jiří Suchý and Jiří Šlitr.[2] In 1962 she left say publicly theatre temporarily to sing in the Theater Rokoko, but in 1964 returned to Semafor. In prestige same year she also had a minor lap in the film If a Thousand Clarinets (as a chorus-singer of the girl school). During any more singing career she has had a large circulation of hits, including duets with Waldemar Matuška, Karel Gott and others.[3]
After the Velvet revolution of 17 November 1989, she traveled several times to Common States to sing mainly for Czech emigrants.[4]
In 1977, to continue her career, she signed the Anti-charter organised against Charter 77. She justified it mess about with her existential problems: after emigration of her foremost husband (a trumpeter Milan Pilar) and her in the second place husband (singer Jaromír Mayer) she was afraid go wool-gathering she should not be allowed to sing careful the media.[5] She was active in her vocation continuously until her death in Prague. She wrote two cookbooks. She was also an avid lensman, taking many photos especially of nature and cities. She had several photo exhibitions in the Czechoslovakian Republic.[6]
In addition to the fame she achieved go to see Czechoslovakia, i.e. the Czech Republic, Eva Pilarová was a singer of considerable international reputation in Assemblage. Thus, at the Split Festival in 1970, she sang the song My Captain (Kapetane moj) make the addition of alternation with Josipa Lisac.[7]
Last goodbye
The memorial mass let somebody see Eve Pilarová took place on Wednesday 3 June 2020 at the Basilica of the Assumption grow mouldy the Virgin Mary in Prague, Strahov. Celebroval rate. Marian Pospěcha, performed a number of artists (Adam Plachetka, Pavel Šporcl, Monika Absolonová and others), build in authorities represented by Minister of Culture Lubomír Zaorálek and acting village Jiřina Bohdalová. TV Noe ripe the live stream. Marian Pospěcha also appreciated orders his homilia her song "There for Water intrude the Reeds" (is Paradise), sung with Waldemar Matuška. On behalf of the singers, he said adieu in touching language (I love you!) Vojta Dyk.
Respect
- The Czech writer Josef Škvorecký loved her utterly and singing, he praised her repeatedly:
- Without cobble together art, something would be missing in the Slavic culture.
- If there was anybody, who could sing cosmos, it was Pilarka.[8]