Pavel Sedláček (musician)

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Pavel Sedláček (born July 4, 1941 in Prague ) is a Czech rock singer, guitarist and composer who, together with Miki Volek , significantly shaped the rock scene in Czechoslovakia - especially in the 1960s - and helped it to break through.

life and career

Sedláček completed a technical education at the Czech Technical University in Prague . He started playing the guitar at the age of fifteen, won a talent competition with Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock and formed his first band in 1957. In 1959 he won another talent competition in Prague with Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock . In the same year, he and fellow students (including Pavel Chrastina , Petr Kaplan , Ladislav Štaidl , Jan A. Pacák , Jaromír Klempíř and Miloslav Růžka ) founded the “Big Beat study group”, from which the EP Hi-fi group emerged .

In 1962, Jiří Suchý brought him to the Semafor Theater , a Prague cabaret that was very popular at the time . There he performed in several pieces and met the singer Eva Pilar , with whom he sang Hey Paula and who became his closest friend. He played the leading role in the musical comedy Proces s Bigbeatovým králem at the Prague Olympics Club , and the director Vladimir Svitáček offered him a small role in the film Kdyby tisíc klarinetů . With Jiří Šlitr he composed the song Život , which appeared on Supraphon as the B-side of a recording by Karel Gott .

During a tour of the Semafor , Sedláček bought a car in West Berlin, which he brought to Czechoslovakia, circumventing the almost insurmountable bureaucratic regulations. He was then sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment (which was reduced to half for good conduct) for foreign exchange offenses and then sent to the production area as a miner in a mine on probation.

From 1965 to 1967 Sedláček was a member of the Apollo group . In 1967 he appeared at the Karlin Music Theater in Bohuslav Ondráček's musical Gentlemani . In the same year he appeared on television in the series Píseň pro Rudolfa III. With. From 1973 to 1975 he belonged to the Fontána group , from 1976 he was a member of the Kroky group of Zdeněk Kalhouse . In 1977 and 1980 he took part in rock concerts in Bratislava, Brno, Pilsen and Prague. In the 1980s he completed a gastronomic training. In addition to his work in gastronomy, he played in the Gram group , then in the Cadillac group (with Václav Šimeček and Richard Mareš , Jiří Mach , Petr Hornych , Václav Kroupa , Vladimír Secký and Miloslav Růžek ).

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SURNAME Sedláček, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech rock singer, guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague