Judita Čeřovská (21 April 1929 – 9 October 2001) was a

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singer.

Career

Born in Most, as a child Štěrbová lived in northern Bohemia. She remained there with her German grandmother even after the occupation of the Sudeten regions in 1938 and attended the German school. Her parents lived near Prague in the

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. Because they listened to foreign radio, they were imprisoned for several months. Before graduating from a business school, Štěrbová made a public appearance with school bands. At the age of 27, she began her semi-professional career as the wife of a lawyer and mother of two children. In a competition for young talents she took 2nd place and shortly afterwards started singing regularly in the Prague Musikhalle Alhambra. Čeřovská has never become a full-time singer, even though she has recorded a number of successful hits. In 1959 she suffered a serious injury in a car accident from which she was able to recover. Without regular collaboration with a large dance orchestra or a renowned singer-songwriter, she was not perceived as a pop star in Czechoslovakia. She became popular abroad. In the Federal Republic of Germany she gave concerts and also directed a TV program. She was also successful in other European countries. In 1967 she sang with some Czechoslovak fellow musicians, among them Karel Gott, at the World Exposition EXPO in

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. For family reasons, she refused an offer of engagement for performances in the USA. Since 1989 Judita Čeřovská switched to Jazz, Swing and Chanson.

Discography

* ''Dívka jménem Pygmalion – Milan Martin/Je po dešti – Judita Čeřovská'' –

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, single * ''Dominiku – Judita Čeřovská/Pražská neděle – Karel Duba'' – Supraphon, single * ''Dívka, jež prodává růže – Milan Chladil, Já vím – Rudolf Cortés/Buď pořád se mnou – Jiří Popper, Měsíčná řeka – Čeřovská Judita'' – Supraphon, single * 1965 ''Zas jako dřív – Judita Čeřovská/ Karel Kopecký'' – Supraphon, single * 1966 ''Santa Lucia – Karel Gott/Dlouhá bílá noc – Judita Čeřovská'' –

, single * 1966 ''Pozdrav od dobré známé/To se mi nezdá'' – Supraphon, single * 1966 ''Ačkoli – Yvetta Simonová, Milan Chladil/Polibek visí na vlásku – Judita Čeřovská'' – Supraphon, single * 1967 ''Muž a žena – Judita Čeřovská/Růže kvetou dál – Helena Vondráčková'' – Supraphon, single * 1983 ''Akropolis, adieu'' – Supraphon 1113 3229 H, LP * 1987 ''Máš dvě lásky/Cesta jde dál'' – Supraphon, single * 1995 ''20× Judita Čeřovská – Akropolis Adieu'', CD * 1998 ''Malý vůz'' – Sony Music Bonton * 2000 ''Je po dešti'' – Saturn * 2000 ''Judita Čeřovská'' – Music Multimedia (Areca Multimedia) – (Edice – Portréty českých hvězd) * 2003 ''The shadow of your smile – Stín tvého úsměvu'' – (písně z 1957–1969) * 2004 ''Lady Song – Největší hity'' – Supraphon (ve spolupráci s Českým rozhlasem).Judita Čeřovská
on Slacker radio

References

Bibliography

* Čeřovská, Judita. Je po dešti: (knihu uspořádali Eva Frančeová ... et al.). Prague: Petrklíč, 2001. 193 s. (autobiografy, v knize vloženo CD). * Tomeš Josef, a kol. Český biografický slovník XX. století : I. díl : A–J. Prague; Litomyšl: Paseka ; Petr Meissner, 1999. 634 p. . p. 212.

External links

Judita Čeřovská v cyklu České televize Příběhy slavných

Zazpívala cokoli, ale spolupráci s StB se nevyhnula
Pořad Českého rozhlasu Plus, podrobné informace o životě Judity Čeřovské, citace z materiálů Státní bezpečnosti. * https://web.archive.org/web/20101126102238/http://www.mumost.cz/vismo/dokumenty2.asp?id_org=9959&id=3635" * http://www.osobnosti.cz/judita-cerovska.php"
Judita Čeřovská - Dominiku
(YouTube) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cerovska, Judita 1929 births 2001 deaths Musicians from Most (city) 20th-century Czech women singers German-language singers of the Czech Republic English-language singers from the Czech Republic Czech pop singers Czech women pop singers Czechoslovak women singers