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Ladislav Vodička
Ladislav Vodička (10 January 1931 in Prague – 7 March 1999) was a Czech country music singer and songwriter. He performed together with the '':cs:Country Beat Jiřího Brabce, Country Beat Jiřího Brabce'' band and later with his own band called ''Vodomilové''. Ladislav Vodička graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1955. His early musical experience includes playing violin in the ''Louny Philharmonic Orchestra''. His singing career started in 1961 in an amateur band called ''Tempest''. In 1966, Jiří Brabec offered him a job as a singer in his country band, which was a major turn in his career. In the same year, the band started to perform on the stage of the famous and popular Semafor (theater), Semafor theatre, a national cultural hotspot of the late 1960s. By the end of 1960s, he became a well-known recording artist. Most popular are probably his Czech cover versions of famous American country songs. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
