RIP Eva Pilarova

Czech singer, actress Eva Pilarova died of cancer after a long battle on March 14, 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic. She was 80. Born on August 9, 1939 in Brno, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Eva Bojanovská, became famous under the surname of her first husband, consider this her life number three. She had three marriages, while the emigration of the first two partners made her career considerably more difficult during normalization, she won the Golden Nightingale three times, and her voice, with which she initially began opera studies, had an exceptional three-octave range. Soon, however, she switched to popular music, practically immediately after joining the Prague Semafor Theater during the era of the Suchý-Šlitr duo began recording. With Matuška, who chose her personally for the song “Oh, the Heavenly Love”, she sang often in Semaphore and Rococo. Eva also appeared in films and TV series. She appeared in two European made for TV western films: ‘Revue pro banjo’ in1963 as Barbara Ellie where she also sang and ‘Magnetické vlny lécí’ in 1965 as a saloon singer.