Karel Gott was born on July 14, 1939, in Pilsen, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. He was a Czech pop singer and was thought to be the most successful male singer in the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Often dubbed the “Golden Voice of Prague” and the “Sinatra of the East,” he was voted the country's best male singer in the annual Český slavík over forty times, most recently in 2017.
He recorded 100 albums and 100 compilation albums and sold an estimated 50–100 million records worldwide, 23 million of them in the German-speaking market, and about 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states (the Czech Republic and Slovakia).
In 1968, he competed in the Eurovision Song Contest with his song "Tausend Fenster".
Gott had two daughters (Dominika [1975- ] and Lucie [1987- ] from different former relationships. He married his last wife, Ivana Macháčková in January 2008 in Las Vegas, and they had two daughters, Charlotte [2006- ] and Nelly [2008- ].
On 12 September 2019 it was announced that Gott was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He died on October 1, 2019 from the disease at a Prague hospital at the age of 80.
GOTT, Karel [7/14/1939, Pilsen, Protectorate Bohemia
and Moravia – 10/1/2019, Plzeň, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (leukemia)]
– composer, singer, actor, father of Dominika Gott with [1975- ], Lucie Gott with [1987- ],
married to Ivana Gottová (Ivana Machackova) [1976- ] (2008-2019) father of Charlotte Ella Gott
[2006- ], Nelly Sofie Gott [2008- ].
Karel Gott: Zdvorilý Woody – 1963 [sings: “Zdvořilý
Woody”]
Lemonade Joe – 1964 [sings: “Oh Ye Gods, What a Dime
Drink” sung by Karel Gott]
If Karel Gott was still alive today, he'd have been 84 years old. I wonder how you pronounce his last name?
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