László Bódi

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László Bódi

László "Cipő" Bódi (born May 3, 1965 in Uzhhorod , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ; † March 11, 2013 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian rock singer and composer, singer and front man of the Hungarian rock band Republic . With his bandmates he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2010 .

life and career

He was born the son of a bricklayer in the city of Uzhhorod in what was then the Soviet Union. At the age of one he moved with his family to the city of Kisvárda in northeast Hungary, where he attended a primary music school. He learned to play the piano in his childhood and began composing at the age of fourteen. By his own admission, he decided on the music career when he saw the film A Hard Day's Night by the Beatles .

In high school he founded his first band called Cipőfűző (“shoelace”), and the nickname Cipő (“shoe”) accompanied him for a lifetime. At the age of 18 he moved to Budapest , where he completed a preparatory course for the Conservatory and also worked for the Hungarian State Railways and the Post Office.

On February 23, 1990 he founded the band Republic with four musicians , with whom they released the first album with the title Indul a mandula !!! published. 21 more studio albums followed until 2012, with the exception of 2009, one each year. Bódi wrote more than two hundred and forty songs for the band, but was also active for other performers, such as the Hungarian pop singer Zsuzsa Koncz . In 1995 he released a solo album.

On March 15, 2010 he and his bandmates received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in recognition of their extremely successful music career.

Bódi suffered from a chronic cardiac arrhythmia for many years and was operated on on the heart in 2009. On February 15, 2013, he had to be taken to the hospital after a heart attack, where he was first kept in an artificial deep sleep and then fell into a coma . He died in the early morning hours of March 11, 2013.

He was married but separated and the father of twin daughters.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bódi László (Cipő) . Zene.hu. September 21, 2009. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ Bíró Zsolt - Havassy Anna Katalin: Cipő: "A Veszely mindig leselkedik" ( Hungarian ) Zene.hu. July 5, 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  3. ↑ Tisztikereszt (PDF; 215 kB) Retrieved on March 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ Meghalt Cipő . Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 12, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metropol.hu
  5. ↑ hvg.hu/MTI: Meghalt Cipő, a Republic együttes énekese . Heti Világgazdaság . March 11, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ Öt és fél órán át küzdöttek Cipő életéért . blikk.hu. March 12, 2013. Archived from the original on March 14, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 12, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blikk.hu
personal data
SURNAME Bódi, László
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cipő (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian rock singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Uzhhorod , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 11th March 2013
Place of death Budapest