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)
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- 2024 · Aristocrat in the Boil as Helena Vondráčková
- 2022 · Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga as Self
- 2020 · Nejslavnější české muzikály as
- 2020 · Women's Revenge as sestra na urologii
- 2020 · Karel Svoboda: Šťastná léta as Self
- 2019 · To se ví as Herself
- 2019 · Karel je Gott as Self
- 2017 · Wunderbares Schlagerland as Self
- 2016 · Your Face Sounds Familiar as Guest Judge
- 2015 · Schlager einer Stadt as Self
- 2014 · The Magic Voice Of A Rebel as
- 2010 · Michal David 50 – Mejdan roku as
- 2006 · Let's Dance as
- 2006 · The Neighbours as Helena Vondráčková
- 2004 · Kameňák 2 as Doctor Helena
- 1996 · Český slavík as Self
- 1995 · Musik für Sie as self
- 1994 · Třikrát baron Prášil as
- 1993 · Weihnachten bei uns as Self
- 1992 · Trhala fialky dynamitem as
- 1992 · Riverboat as Self
- 1988 · Láska na inzerát as
- 1985 · Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval as Self - Singer
- 1983 · Možná přijde i kouzelník as
- 1982 · Zpěváci na kraji nemocnice as
- 1982 · Goodbye, Medeo as Scheherazade - singer
- 1982 · Romance ze Savoy baru as
- 1982 · Dobrý večer as
- 1981 · Štědrý den bratří Mánesů as Self
- 1980 · The Tale of John and Mary as Mařenka (zpěv)
- 1980 · Hle Praha, pane Pařížane! as Self
- 1979 · Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti as Self
- 1979 · Dům pro Helenu as Helena Vondráčková
- 1979 · Možná přijde i... Kaiser a Lábus as
- 1978 · Silvestr 1978 as Self
- 1978 · Let Him Face the Music! as
- 1978 · Kouzelný kolotoč as
- 1978 · Báječné ženy na létajících strojích as Helenka
- 1977 · Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí as Self
- 1977 · Ostrov plný písniček as
- 1977 · Helena na horách as
- 1977 · Fantom biografu as
- 1975 · Silvestr na Silvestru as Self
- 1975 · Romance for a Crown as Helena Vondráčková
- 1975 · Letní romance as
- 1975 · Dovolená s Helenou as
- 1974 · Silvestr je za dveřmi as Self
- 1974 · Když hvězdy vyplovou... as
- 1973 · Vydržte až do půlnoci! as Self
- 1973 · Zpívající film as
- 1972 · Eva a její klan as Jana (singing voice)
- 1972 · A Kettle of Colour as Self
- 1972 · Pět cestujících as
- 1971 · Silvestr 71 as Self
- 1971 · Žabí muzikál as Princess Lilinka (singing voice)
- 1970 · Rendez-vous pri Dunaji as Self
- 1970 · Rozvod as
- 1968 · The Terribly Sad Princess as princezna Helena
- 1967 · Píseň pro Rudolfa III. as Self
- 1967 · Zlatý slavík as Self