Helena Zeťová (born 7 November 1980 in
Valašské Meziříčí
Valašské Meziříčí (; german: Wallachisch Meseritsch) is a town in Vsetín District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban mon ...
) is a Czech singer.
Career
She started singing at the age of 15, first with a rock band, and later with an American band on the Spanish island of
Lanzarote
Lanzarote (, , ) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering , Lanzarote is the fourth-largest of the i ...
(
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...
). Her career started changing after her win at the 2000
Do-Re-Mi
"Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music''. Each syllable of the musical solfège system appears in the song's lyrics, sung on the pitch it names. Rodgers was helped in its creation by long-time ...
amateur singer contest TV show, where she performed "
Against All Odds" by
Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and lead singer of the rock band Genesis and also has a career as a solo performer. Between 1982 and ...
. It was her first TV performance.
In 2001, she, together with
Tereza Kerndlová
Tereza Kerndlová (born 6 October 1986 in Brno) is a Czech singer. She rose to fame as a member of the trio Black Milk since 2001. After the trio split in 2005, she started a solo career and released the album ''Orchidej''.
She represented th ...
and
Tereza Černochová, established a
girl group
A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of who ...
. In 2002 they released their first studio album ''Modrej dým''. The same year they earned the
Czech Nightingale prize in the "Discovery of the Year" category.
In 2005 the band dissolved. Half a year later the same year Zeťová released her first solo album, ''Ready to Roll'', and was named "Surprise of the Year" in the Czech Nightingale poll.
Discography
Black Milk
Studio albums
* Modrej dým (2002, platinum album)
* Sedmkrát (2003, gold album)
* Nechci tě trápit (2007, compilation)
Singles
* Nechci tě trápit (2002)
* Modrej dým (2002)
* Pár nápadů (2002)
Solo
Studio albums
*2005: Ready to Roll (4th in Top 10
)
*2008: Crossing Bridges (5th in Top 10
Singles
*2005 - Impossible (Unstoppable) (1st in Top 10
*2006 - Ready to Roll
*2006 - Black Cat
*2007 - Crossing Bridges (41st in Top 10
*2008 - Love Me Again (4th in Top 10
*2008 - Don't U Play Games
References
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1980 births
Living people
21st-century Czech women singers
Czech pop singers
People from Valašské Meziříčí