Lou Fanánek Hagen (real name František Moravec, born 18 June 1966) is a Czech musician, composer, lyricist, and frontman of the punk band

Tři sestry Tři sestry (Czech for "three sisters") is a Czech punk band formed in 1985 in Prague. Some of their later material has fallen into a more general rock genre, and they have also dabbled in hardcore punk. The band experienced the peak of their po ...

Career

Tři sestry

In 1985, František Moravec became the singer and frontman of the punk band

and adopted the moniker Lou Fanánek Hagen, naming himself after his two idols,

Nina Hagen Catharina "Nina" Hagen (; born 11 March 1955) is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rise to prominence during the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is ...

and

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. He has remained with the band throughout their career. In 2021, they released their latest album, titled ''Sex drógy rokenról''.

Other activities

After the

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, Hagen began composing songs for

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, as well as for other well-known artists, such as

Karel Gott Karel Gott (14 July 1939 – 1 October 2019) was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual ''Český slavík'' (''Czech Nighti ...

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, Hana Zagorová,

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, and Maxim Turbulenc. Between 1992 and 1993, he fronted the punk band Hagen Baden with

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from Orlík. The group also included Jakub Maleček, Ronald Seitl, and Martin Roubínek. They released two albums: ''Hagen Baden'' (1992) and ''Ahoj kluci'' (1993). In 2001, he participated in the composition of the libretto for the Czech musical ''Kleopatra''. He has also collaborated on a number of musicals with

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. In 2009, he was inducted into the

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Personal life

Moravec was born in

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

. After high school, he attended the faculty of civil engineering of the

Czech Technical University Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) () is one of the largest universities in the Czech Republic with 8 faculties, and is one of the oldest institutes of technology in Central Europe. It is also the oldest non-military technical universi ...

, where he obtained the title of engineer. He also studied interdisciplinary journalism at

Charles University Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in the world in conti ...

. In 1986, while crossing a set of train tracks at Veleslavín station, Moravec was hit by a train, causing him to lose his lower right leg. He has worn a prosthesis ever since. In the mid-1990s, he self-published an autobiographical book titled ''Tak to bylo, tak to je…'', which was reissued in 2007. He followed it in 2010 with his second book, ''Járo, kakao!'' Moravec has a total of five children, from two marriages.

References

External links

Tři sestry official website
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