Karel Gott

Karel Gott is a Czech Schlager singer, and an amateur painter. He is considered the most successful male singer in former Czechoslovakia and currently in the Czech Republic he was elected the Most Favorite Male Singer in the annual national poll esk slavk in total forty times, most recently in 2015. He also gained widespread fame in the Germanspeaking countries and is a fluent speaker of the language. Worldwide he has sold an estimated 50100 million records with his songs,million of them in the Germanspeaking market, and aboutmillion in former Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Of his debut LP in Russia there were sold over 5.5 million copies.

Gott was born in Pilsen, at that time Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now Plze, Czech Republic, and has lived in Prague since age 6. His family was German Bohemian descent, but has assimilated into Czech national identity. He initially wanted to study art, but failed the exams at UMPRUM, the renowned School of Industrial Art, upon which he began training as an electrician. On completing his studies, he began working as an electrician, but was soon fascinated by the new types of music flooding the city, and became interested in jazz. He experimented with playing the bass and the guitar, but eventually decided to focus on singing, studying it privately. During the 1950s, he occasionally performed as an amateur singer and often participated in competitions.

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