Helena Vondráčková

Helena Vondráčková (born 24 June 1947, in Prague) is a Czech singer whose career has spanned five decades. Vondráčková spent her childhood years in the town of Slatiňany. She took piano lessons from an early age. In 1964 Vondráčková came to prominence when she won a national talent contest that 27 of April then that 3 of September she made her first recording: a Czech rendering of "Red River Valley" entitled "Červená řeka" ("Red River Valley"). In 1965, the year she graduated high school, Vondráčková was voted the most popular singer in Czechoslovakia by the readers of the magazine Mladý svět earning the Golden Nightingale award for the only time in her career although Vondráčková would subsequently earn second or third place a total of twenty-seven times with eleven Silver Nightingale awards and sixteen Bronze Nightingale awards. In the summer of 1966 Vondráčková began her music festival career competing in the inaugural Bratislavská Lýra festival as a duo with Marta Kubišová: their entry "Oh Baby Baby" earned the second-place Silver Lyre award. Vondráčková's music festival debut as a solo act was at the Rio de Janeiro International Music Festival in November 1967 where her entry "Vzdálený hlas" received the Golden Rooster award: in June 1968 Vondráčková returned Bratislavska Lyra in a duo with Waldemar Matuška and a resultant Bronze Lyre award for their entrant "To se nikdo nedoví" and in 1969 Vondráčková participated in the 1969 European Cup Festival in Knokke Belgium. Having reached #2 on the Czechoslovakian hit parade with the Kubišova duet "Oh Baby Baby", Vondráčková reached #1 in September 1967 with "Nedoufej" a rendering of the Sonny & Cher hit "Little Man": this was one of a number of Czech language cover versions Vondráčková cut for the Supraphon label, others being ""Pátá"" ("Downtown"), "Chytila Jsem Motýlka" ("I Only Want to Be with You") and "Růže kvetou dál", a rendering of the Gilbert Becaud hit "L'Important c'est la Rose" which afforded Vondráčková a second #1 in November 1967 and remaining in the Top Ten until March 1968. Vondráčková returned to the Top Ten in 1968 with "Hej, Pane Zajíci!" a duet with Marta Kubišova and also with a Czech-language rendering of "Gli Occhi iei" entitled "Utíkej". Vondráčková's debut album appeared in 1969: entitled "Růže kvetou dál it was a compilation of her singles released from 1964 on. (Wikipedia)

Cast

The Terribly Sad Princess

(princezna Helena)

Fantom biografu

Ostrov plný písniček

Helena na horách

Kouzelný kolotoč

Dům pro Helenu

(Helena Vondráčková)

Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

(Self - Singer)

The Tale of John and Mary

(Mařenka (zpěv))

Hle Praha, pane Pařížane!

(Self)

Let Him Face the Music!

Štědrý den bratří Mánesů

(Self)

Romance ze Savoy baru

Zpěváci na kraji nemocnice

Kameňák 2

(Doctor Helena)

Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga

(Self)

Žabí muzikál

(Princess Lilinka (singing voice))

Rozvod

Eva a její klan

(Jana (singing voice))

Zpívající film

Pět cestujících

The Magic Voice Of A Rebel

Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí

(Self)

Silvestr je za dveřmi

(Self)

Silvestr 1978

(Self)

Vydržte až do půlnoci!

(Self)

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti

(Self)

Silvestr na Silvestru

(Self)

Silvestr 71

(Self)

Rendez-vous pri Dunaji

(Self)

Báječné ženy na létajících strojích

(Helenka)

Láska na inzerát

Goodbye, Medeo

(Scheherazade - singer)

Dovolená s Helenou

Když hvězdy vyplovou...

Aristocrat in the Boil

(Helena Vondráčková)

Trhala fialky dynamitem

Romance for a Crown

(Helena Vondráčková)

Karel Svoboda: Šťastná léta

(Self)

Women's Revenge

(sestra na urologii)

Michal David 50 – Mejdan roku

Nejslavnější české muzikály

Letní romance

Dobrý večer

The Neighbours

(Helena Vondráčková)

Možná přijde i kouzelník

A Kettle of Colour

(Self)

Let's Dance

Možná přijde i... Kaiser a Lábus

Zlatý slavík

(Self)

Český slavík

(Self)

Píseň pro Rudolfa III.

(Self)

Schlager einer Stadt

(Self)

Karel je Gott

(Self)

To se ví

(Herself)

Třikrát baron Prášil

Your Face Sounds Familiar

(Guest Judge)

Musik für Sie

(self)

Riverboat

(Self)

Wunderbares Schlagerland

(Self)