Jan Hrubý (born 3 December 1948) is a Czech rock violinist known primarily for playing with the bands Etc...,

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, and Kukulín.

Life and career

Hrubý was born in

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in 1948. Between 1964 and 1968, he studied violin at the

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, then went on to play bass and later violin in the group Reciprocity. From 1975 until

Vladimír Mišík Vladimír Mišík (born 8 March 1947) is a Czech musician and politician. He is the founder or co-founder of the bands The Matadors, Matadors, Blue Effect, and Etc (band), Etc.... Career Music Mišík founded his first band, Uragán, as a teena ...

's performance ban by the

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in 1982, he played with the singer's band Etc.... In 1983, he joined Luboš Andršt's Blues Band and a year later, he became a member of Michal Prokop's Framus 5 and significantly influenced the album ''Kolej Yesterday''. When Mišík was able to return to the stage in 1985, Hrubý rejoined Etc..., though only for a year and a half, before returning to Framus 5. Since 1987, he has also played with Prokop and Andršt in an acoustic trio formerly known as Nu-Trio. Hrubý has also been a member of Čundrgrund with Mišík, Vladimír Merta, and Petr Kalandra, as well as collaborating with Dagmar Andrtová-Voňková and recording with

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, Marsyas, C&K Vocal,

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, and others. In the 1990s, he was influenced by

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and founded the group Kukulín. In 2012, Hrubý took part in Merta's revived project Dobrá úroda, recording the album ''Nikdo v zemi nikoho''. In January 2014, he released the album ''Společné světy'' with English harpist Sean Barry.

Partial discography

* ''Cesta na severozápad'' (1992) * ''Arthur's Stone'' (Jan Hrubý, Peter Mustill, and Kukulín – 1993) * ''Burning Rose'' (Jan Hrubý, Peter Mustill, and Kukulín – 1994) * ''Černý ovce'' (Jan Hrubý, Michal Prokop,

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, Peter Mustill – 1997) * ''Středozem'' (Jan Hrubý and Kukulín – 1998) * ''The Best of…'' (Jan Hrubý and Kukulín – 2000) * ''Stará vlna (Pastorální svita)'' (2000) * ''Cesty…'' (2001) * ''Mezidobí'' (2002) * ''Silmarillion'' (Jan Hrubý and Kukulín – 2003) * ''Unplugged – Live'' (Michal Prokop, Luboš Andršt, and Jan Hrubý – 2005) * ''The Habit of Perfection'' (Maria Hoffman and Jan Hrubý – 2006) * ''Včerejší Vydání'' (Vladimír Merta and Jan Hrubý – 2011) * ''Nikdo v zemi nikoho'' (Dobrá úroda – 2012) * ''Společné světy'' (Jan Hrubý and Sean Barry – 2014) * ''7'' (Jan Hrubý and Kukulín – 2015) * ''Příběhy v čase'' (2017) * ''V rozpitých barvách'' (Radim Hladík,

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, Jan Hrubý, Petr Přibyl – 2017) * ''S nebem to mám dobrý'' (Vladimír Mišík, Radim Hladík, and Jan Hrubý – 2017)

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