Karel Kryl

Karel Kryl is a popular singer Czech born on April 12th, 1944 and dead on March 3rd, 1994. He wrote and sang many very critical songs with respect to the communist mode .

Biography

He is born in Kroměříž in Moravie, wire of Karel Kryl and Marie Krylová. His/her father was printer and they were expropriés family company in 1948 by the come to power of the Communist regime. The studies are prohibited to him, it thus works in a medical ceramics factory with Teplice. In the years 1960, it is impassioned for French poetry and discovers the Western music. It approaches to pacifism and the movement hippie by affirming a strong individualism. It arrives at Prague in 1967 and works in Radio Ostrava. It starts to compose, sings in many small clubs praguois and creates a small theater (Waterloo Divadlo).

The Soviet invasion of August 21st, 1968 to stop the democratization of the Printemps of Prague puts an end to this happy period and on August 22nd to him its most famous song inspires, Bratříčku zavírej vrátka , ( Ferme the door little brother ). The album is published in 1969 and is censured by the mode shortly after. It is exiled one month after the Soviet invasion and settles with Munich where it continues to write, compose and sing. Its texts and its songs circulate largely under the coat as a Czech Republic where it is prohibited by the mode. It becomes one of the icons of the protest anticommunist and its songs are very widely diffused.

In Munich he works especially for Radio Free Europe.

He returns after the velvet revolution but is critical way in which the revolution was done thus that separation between Czech Republic and Slovakia.

It remains less and less as a Czech Republic and dies of a cardic crisis in Munich in 1994. It was decorated on a purely posthumous basis about the white lion, most famous of Czech decorations.

There remains one of the Czech singers most popular, its songs is regularly played and was included in a Ballet in 2007 with Prague, Brel, Vysotsky, Kryl .

External bond

  • Official site

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