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He was originally supposed to be a dentist, but his study of the piano and his love of music directed Karel Svoboda into the artistic spheres. He left medicine and played in the band Mephisto from the mid-1960s, composing one hit after another. On Friday, we commemorate 15 years since his departure from this world.
Freedom was a lover of life and a man who had success, fame and money. But even his life was not spared tragedy. Soon after the revolution, his wife Hana, whom he married in 1969, died. In his second marriage, his daughter Klárka was born, but fate measured her only four years due to leukemia.
Karel was also hit by the death of his brother Jiří, who succumbed to diabetes problems in less than 60 years. All of this could have contributed to his psychological problems. And so, on the Sunday evening of January 2007, in the garden of his house in Jevany, to the shock of all friends and supporters, he ended his life with a legally held pistol. He was 68 years old.
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Svobody owned the film
Jiří, seven years younger, was the opposite of Karel. He did not like the attention of the media, he lived more in seclusion and, like his brother, he devoted himself to composing film music. Of the many successful films, it is enough to name the Primary School or the series Necklace with Libuše Šafránková in the lead role.
Charles’ work was much more extensive and he also established himself on the foreign market. Claudia Cardinal or Bud Spencer starred in his series and films. Nevertheless, the most famous film music will forever be the legendary fairy tale Three Nuts for Cinderella, awarded in 1977 in Panama.
Hits not only for Gott
Karel Svoboda had an incredible feeling for the melody with an emphasis on a strong and easy-to-remember refrain, which benefited mainly the singer Karel Gott, but also others.
Singer Hana Zagorová made a hit Gvendolína, Jiří Korn’s career started Yvetta. Then there are songs With love, the world has hope whose tell me paved the way for the Golden Nightingale of Petra Janů and Honey daysy were at the start of the pair Bartošová & Sepéši.
A hitmaker like Karel Svoboda will probably not be born here anymore …
Talk about the video from Karel Svoboda’s happy years:
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