František Ringo Čech
František Ringo Čech (born July 9, 1943 in Prague ) is a Czech drummer, singer, songwriter, actor, painter and writer.
Career
The son of the singer-songwriter František Čech “Pražski” trained as a television mechanic and studied drums with Vladimír Vlasák at the Prague Conservatory . He first played Dixieland , then took lessons from bassist Herbert Ward and then studied classical jazz with Pavel Smetáček . The pianist Jaromír Klempíř brought him into the Olympik group in 1963 , which made music based on the model of the Beatles . With this band he also appeared in the Semafor Theater in Prague in the play Ondráš podotýká, during which time Čech adopted the middle name Ringo. In 1965 he won a poll for the best Czech beat drummer.
From 1965 to 1967 Čech lived in the USA and performed at the Tropicana Las Vegas . After returning to Czechoslovakia, he took part in the first Czech rock festival with the Rogers Band in 1967 and worked with the singers Pavel Sedláček and Petr Černocký , the guitarist and singer Petr Kaplan , the organist and pianist Rudolf Rokl , the saxophonist Miloslav Růžek , the guitarist Zdeněk Juračka and the bassist and singer Ladislav Chvalkovský together.
In 1968 he went abroad again with a dance orchestra and founded the rock group Shut up with his brother, the bass guitarist Svatopluk Čech , which also appeared as a theater orchestra (from 1982 as Skupina Františka Čecha ). In addition, he wrote texts for other groups and artists such as Abraxas , Pražský výběr and the Combo FH a Bronz and for pop singers like Karel Gott . He painted, wrote short stories, screenplays (with Petr Novotný for the Barrandov film studios, among others ) and poems for children, organized rock festivals and appeared as an actor.
In 1983 he founded his own theater, where he was active as a director, author, dramaturge and actor; he was very successful: his play Dívčí válka alone was performed 1200 times, and although his theater did not have its own theater, he won actors such as Helena Růžičková , Andrea Čunderlíková and Jiří Hrzán for it . In the later years he also had success as a naive painter.
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Web links
- František Ringo Čech in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Čech, František Ringo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech drummer, singer, songwriter, actor, painter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |