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His soft virile voice had been “driving women of all ages mad” since the 60’s. Singer Waldemar Matuška death May 30th in Florida at the age of 76 has dominated the headlines in the Czech press. Mladá Fronta DNES gives over four pages to the “bad boy” of national pop, explaining his “unique position in the history of pop music, for ever.”
The “bearded bohemian in jeans” who began his career in Prague theatre Semafor, became popular in the relative freedom of the 1960’s. He continued to sing during the so-called “normalisation” period after the crushed Prague spring of 68, before leaving the country in 1986 for the United States. “Even though his songs were no longer played after this, every Czech knew them by heart,” recalls DNES.
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