Helena VondráÄková
Helena Vondrackova (* June 24, 1947 in Prague ) is a Czech singer and actress.
Life
In the early 1960s she began as a singer and was one of the most popular singers of the former Eastern Bloc. She gave her film debut in 1969 alongside her frequent duet partner Václav Neckář page as the insanely sad princess. There were other film roles, most recently in 2004 in Kamenak 2
The singer had included appearances in the packed Carnegie Hall in New York and received several gold and platinum awards for recordings sold. National Awards are, for example, "Woman of the Year 2001" (Lady pro, 100 ), Singer of the Year 2000 ( nomination for Vodopad - Academy of Popular Music ), Honoured Artist of 1982 golden anchor Decin and won the Silver Award Bratislava (Category internationally ) respectively in 1982. latter award she had won each more than once in the 1960s and 1970s.
Internationally, it was, inter alia, competition winner and she received, among others awards at the Miss International Festival of Cancao Popular ( Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Gouden boat (Belgium ), Hitashi Award ( Japan), Cerbul de Argint ( Brasov, Romania), international festival Olympus de la Cancon ( Athens, Greece), Prix de public, Festival Coupe d'Europe (France), Nagrada Pubilca (Split, Yugoslavia), Halk ödülü Müsik Festival (Turkey) and the International Bulgarian music festival.
In the DFF report " evening in the spotlight " (1981) she performed alongside Lili Ivanova, Rolf Herricht and Dorit Gaebler.
In 1983, she moderated at the Palace of the Republic in Berlin the 63 Colorful boiler. In other years, she was repeatedly seen on the show as a guest star.
In 2007, there were European and non-European concerts of the singer, inter alia, in Moscow, several talk shows and its own TV show on Czech television.
After she had already unsuccessfully applied to the German preliminary decision to Euro Vision Song Contest 1978 ( Men like you took only 12th place), she tried to represent the Czech Republic at Euro Vision debut in 2007. Your preliminary title Samba, however, was disqualified; the spare song Ha Ha Ha was withdrawn so that Vondrackova refrained from participating in the competition.
On 24 March 2007 she sang the German national anthem at the European Championship qualifying match between Germany and the Czech Republic. They jumped over a row.
Since the 1990s, also her niece Lucie Vondrackova as a singer and actress is successful.
On January 26, 2010 was one of the Helena Vondrackova guests of honor at the opening of the exhibition " Czech fairy tale" in the culture brewery in Berlin, which was first shown outside the Czech Republic. The costumes from the fairy tale " The Terribly Sad Princess ," in which she played the lead role, were also there to see. With songs from this fairy tale, she opened the exhibition event. At the request of the Ambassador of the present Czech Republic and the Head of the Czech Centre she later sang another title and was thus the much acclaimed star of the evening.
Your German producer, lyricist and manager since 2003 Filip Albrecht, "Tonight ", " miracle gescheh'n " or " The dream very close " wrote among others the title. The common hits from the pen of Filip Albrecht issued on the CD " Ha ha ha".
In 2010, the artist has appeared several times in the Prague State Opera (Program: " Helena on Broadway " ), dubbed one of the lead roles in the remake of fairy tales ( Rapunzel / Na vlasku ), played the role of Evelyn in the musical (Baron prášil / meeting with Munchausen ), the double - album spawned out "Recital " and was the star guest at the Belarusian music festival " Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk ".