Karel Gott

USA

Born: 14 July 1939

Years Active: 70, 80

Genres: Jazz, Pop/Rock, Vocal, International

Styles: Euro-Pop, Europop, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Vocal Pop, Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards, Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion

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Czech singer and painter Karel Gott was born on July 14, 1939, in Pilson, Czechoslovakia, but has made his home in Prague since he was six years old. Fascinated by jazz, he first began singing in public in 1958, and in 1960 began studying opera and voice at Prague Conservatory. He released his first single, a duet with Vlasta Pruchova, on Supraphon Records in 1962. A year later his first solo single appeared, a Czech version of Henry Mancini's "Moon River," and Gott subsequently ended his official studies at the conservatory, quickly building a...

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