Mikoláš Chadima (born 9 September 1952 in

Cheb Cheb (; german: Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. It lies on the river Ohře. Before the 1945 expulsion of the German-speaking population, the town was the centre of the German-s ...

) is a Czech musician and composer. Besides singing he plays saxophone, guitar, flute and harmonica. His early bands include ''The Three Fellows'', ''Purple Fleas'', Petroleum Company, ''Yellow Defect'', ''Inrou'' and ''Elektrobus''. In 1976, he joined JJ Neduha's band ''Extempore''. He became a leader of the band after Neduha's leaving two years later. He founded his own band ''MCH Band'' in 1982. He also collaborated with

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and Mňága a Žďorp. In 1985, he wrote a book called ''Alternativa'' which was originally published in

samizdat Samizdat (russian: самиздат, lit=self-publishing, links=no) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the document ...

. In 1979, he signed

Charter 77 Charter 77 (''Charta 77'' in Czech and Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří Něm ...

. His father Jiří Chadima (1923) is a painter.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chadima, Mikolas 1952 births Living people Czech guitarists Male guitarists Czech saxophonists 21st-century Czech male singers People from Cheb 20th-century saxophonists Charter 77 signatories Czech male composers Czech composers 20th-century Czech male singers Czechoslovak male singers