Věra Špinarová (22 December 1951 – 26 March 2017) was a Czech singer. She was born in

Pohořelice Pohořelice (; german: Pohrlitz) is a town in Brno-Country District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,300 inhabitants. Administrative parts Villages of Nová Ves and Smolín are administrative parts of Pohořelice ...

, Czechoslovakia, and moved to

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, now Czech Republic, with her parents at the age of seven. She learned to play the violin as a child. She performed with the Flamingo band in the late 1960s. Her first LP entitled ''Andromeda'' came out in 1972 under the Panton label, the rest were published under the

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label. In 1972 she married Ivo Pavlík. They divorced in 1984. Her second husband, Vítězslav Vávra, was a singer and drummer.Jsem už na konci, ale cítím se opravdu dobře, říká Věra Špinarová
idnes.cz; accessed 30 March 2017. On 26 March 2017, Špinarova suffered a heart attack at a concert in

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and died.Chris Johnstone: Czech hit singer Věra Špinarová dies
Radio.cz, 27-03-2017 Days prior, she appeared alongside

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, who imitated her, on stage in the Czech version of

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Discography

Source: * 1972 ''Andromeda'' * 1976 ''Životopis'' * 1979 ''Věra Špinarová 3'' * 1982 ''Meteor lásky'' * 1984 ''Stíny výsluní'' * 1985 ''Věra Špinarová & Speciál '85'' * 1986 ''Věra Špinarová 7'' * 1989 ''Jednoho dne se vrátiš'' (compilation) * 1993 ''... a pořád tě mám ráda'' * 1994 ''Já si broukám'' * 1996 ''Když se láskám stýská'' * 1996 ''Andromeda'' * 2000 ''Největší hity'' (compilation) * 2001 ''Za vše můžu já'' * 2002 ''Největší hity 2'' (compilation) * 2003 ''Věra Špinarová 1 Jednoho dne se vrátíš'' (compilation) * 2003 ''Věra Špinarová 2 Letní ukolébavka'' (compilation) * 2004 ''To nejlepší'' (compilation) * 2005 ''Čas můj za to stál'' * 2005 ''Když se láskám stýská'' * 2011 ''Jednoho dne se vrátíš/Zlatá kolekce'' (3CD compilation)

References

External links

Official website
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