Helena Vondráčková

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)

Known For: Acting

Born: Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1947-06-24

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	The Terribly Sad Princess	princezna Helena	76
2	1970	Rozvod		0
3	1970	Rendez-vous pri Dunaji	Self	0
4	1971	Žabí muzikál	Princess Lilinka (singing voice)	35
5	1971	Silvestr 71	Self	0
6	1972	Pět cestujících		0
7	1972	Eva a její klan	Jana (singing voice)	0
8	1973	Zpívající film		0
9	1973	Vydržte až do půlnoci!	Self	0
10	1974	Když hvězdy vyplovou...		0
11	1974	Silvestr je za dveřmi	Self	0
12	1975	Dovolená s Helenou		0
13	1975	Letní romance		0
14	1975	Romance for a Crown	Helena Vondráčková	50
15	1975	Silvestr na Silvestru	Self	10
16	1977	Fantom biografu		0
17	1977	Helena na horách		0
18	1977	Ostrov plný písniček		0
19	1977	Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí	Self	50
20	1978	Kouzelný kolotoč		0
21	1978	Báječné ženy na létajících strojích	Helenka	0
22	1978	Let Him Face the Music!		53
23	1978	Silvestr 1978	Self	70
24	1979	Dům pro Helenu	Helena Vondráčková	0
25	1979	Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti	Self	0
26	1980	Hle Praha, pane Pařížane!	Self	0
27	1980	The Tale of John and Mary	Mary (singing voice)	70
28	1981	Štědrý den bratří Mánesů	Self	0
29	1982	Dobrý večer		0
30	1982	Romance ze Savoy baru		0
31	1982	Goodbye, Medeo	Scheherazade - singer	80
32	1982	Zpěváci na kraji nemocnice		0
33	1985	Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval	Self - Singer	0
34	1988	Láska na inzerát		0
35	1992	Trhala fialky dynamitem		31
36	2004	Kameňák 2	Doctor Helena	22
37	2010	Michal David 50 – Mejdan roku		0
38	2014	The Magic Voice Of A Rebel		70
39	2020	Karel Svoboda: Šťastná léta	Self	0
40	2020	Women's Revenge	sestra na urologii	43
41	2020	Nejslavnější české muzikály		80
42	2022	Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga	Self	90
43	2024	Aristocrat in the Boil	Helena Vondráčková	60

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Zlatý slavík	Self	0
2	1967	Píseň pro Rudolfa III.	Self	60
3	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self	18
4	1979	Možná přijde i... Kaiser a Lábus		100
5	1983	Možná přijde i kouzelník		85
6	1992	Riverboat	Self	40
7	1993	Weihnachten bei uns	Self	0
8	1994	Třikrát baron Prášil		40
9	1995	Musik für Sie	self	0
10	1996	Český slavík	Self	0
11	2006	The Neighbours	Helena Vondráčková	81
12	2006	Let's Dance		0
13	2015	Schlager einer Stadt	Self	0
14	2016	Your Face Sounds Familiar	Guest Judge	50
15	2017	Wunderbares Schlagerland	Self	0
16	2019	Karel je Gott	Self	0
17	2019	To se ví	Herself	0

Helena Vondráčková

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