Helena Vondráčková

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Born: June 24, 1947
From: Prague, Czechoslovakia
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Biography

Helena Vondráčková (born 24 June 1947, in Prague) is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades. Vondráčková spent her childhood years in the town of Slatiňany. She took piano lessons from an early age. In 1964 Vondráčková came to prominence when she won a national talent contest that 27 of April then that 3 of September she made her first recording: a Czech rendering of "Red River Valley" entitled "Červená řeka" ("Red River Valley"). In 1965, the year she graduated high school, Vondráčková was voted the most popular singer in Czechoslovakia by the readers of the magazine Mladý svět earning the Golden Nightingale award for the only time in her career although Vondráčková would subsequently earn second or third place a total of twenty-seven times with eleven Silver Nightingale awards and sixteen Bronze Nightingale awards. In the summer of 1966 Vondráčková began her music festival career competing in the inaugural Bratislavská Lýra festival as a duo with Marta Kubišová: their entry "Oh Baby Baby" earned the second-place Silver Lyre award. Vondráčková's music festival debut as a solo act was at the Rio de Janeiro International Music Festival in November 1967 where her entry "Vzdálený hlas" received the Golden Rooster award: in June 1968 Vondráčková returned Bratislavska Lyra in a duo with Waldemar Matuška and a resultant Bronze Lyre award for their entrant "To se nikdo nedoví" and in 1969 Vondráčková participated in the 1969 European Cup Festival in Knokke Belgium. Having reached #2 on the Czechoslovakian hit parade with the Kubišova duet "Oh Baby Baby", Vondráčková reached #1 in September 1967 with "Nedoufej" a rendering of the Sonny & Cher hit "Little Man": this was one of a number of Czech language cover versions Vondráčková cut for the Supraphon label, others being ""Pátá"" ("Downtown"), "Chytila Jsem Motýlka" ("I Only Want to Be with You") and "Růže kvetou dál", a rendering of the Gilbert Becaud hit "L'Important c'est la Rose" which afforded Vondráčková a second #1 in November 1967 and remaining in the Top Ten until March 1968. Vondráčková returned to the Top Ten in 1968 with "Hej, Pane Zajíci!" a duet with Marta Kubišova and also with a Czech-language rendering of "Gli Occhi iei" entitled "Utíkej". Vondráčková's debut album appeared in 1969: entitled "Růže kvetou dál it was a compilation of her singles released from 1964 on. (Wikipedia)

Works

50 films

Láska na inzerát

1988

Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga

20229.0

The Terribly Sad Princess

19687.4

Helena na horách

1977

Svátek melodií

1978

Kouzelný kolotoč

1978

Romance for a Crown

19756.5

Štědrý den bratří Mánesů

1981

The Magic Voice of a Rebel

20147.0

Silvestr 1978

19787.0

Michal David 50 – Mejdan roku

2010

Dovolená s Helenou

1975

Zlatý slavík 1979

1980

Helena Vondráčková: Já půjdu dál

2012

Když hvězdy vyplovou...

1974

Bad Joke 2

20042.7

Ať se lidi mají rádi... aspoň dnes

2026

Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí

19773.7

Women's Revenge

20203.8

Vydržte až do půlnoci!

1973

Šviháci

20261.0

Silvestr je za dveřmi

1974

Letní romance

1975

Zlatý slavík 1966

19679.0

Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

19858.0

Let Him Face the Music!

19785.5

The Tale of John and Mary

19807.2

Tady Paříž, dobrý den

1982

Žabí muzikál

19713.0

Dobrý večer

1982

Trhala fialky dynamitem

19923.9

Goodbye, Medeo

19829.0

Rendez-vous pri Dunaji

1970

Silvestr na Silvestru

19751.0

Karel Svoboda: Šťastná léta

20203.0

Zpěváci na kraji nemocnice

1982

Silvestr 71

1971

Hle Praha, pane Pařížane!

1980

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti

1979

Dům pro Helenu

1979

Romance ze Savoy baru

1982

Fantom biografu

1977

Ostrov plný písniček

1977

Aristocrat in the Boil

20245.2

Nejslavnější české muzikály

20208.0

Pět cestujících

1972

Eva a její klan

19725.0

Rozvod

1970

Zpívající film

1973

Báječné ženy na létajících strojích

1978