Eva Olmerová

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Eva Olmerová (21 January 1934 – 10 August 1993) was a Czech pop and jazz singer. She is regarded as one of the greatest Czech jazz singers of all time.

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Biography Eva Olmerová was born in Prague in 1934. She started piano lessons at the age of 6, as a pupil of Aurelie Káanová-Bubnová. After World War II her grandparents returned from London, where her grandfather had worked with Edvard Beneš, president of the exiled Czechoslovak government. Her parents divorced in 1948, when she was fourteen. She remained with her father, at his cottage in the village of Třebsín near Štěchovice. While there, she had first-hand experience of the tramping movement and began to sing folk songs with guitar accompaniment. In the early 1950s she became involved in Prague's jazz scene and performed with the Arnošt Kavka Band. In 1951, aged seventeen, she was arrested by the Czechoslovak state security service, in connection with her grandfather's political activities and her uncle Otmar Kučera's wartime service as Commander of 313 Squadron RAF. At the police station she experienced degrading treatment: she was forced to undress, then interrogated. Later, in 1958, she attacked and slapped a policeman and was jailed for fourteen months. In 1952, she married for the first time but was soon divorced. For a while she earned a living as a professional singer in the bars of Prague. In…Citește mai mult

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Inspiration and style Olmerová was an entirely self-taught singer. She claimed to be free of the influences of other singers but admitted to an admiration for Mahalia Jackson and the styles of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Bing Crosby. She referred to Karel Gott, the most popular singer in Czechoslovakia, as having "...a homosexual feeble voice with falsetto". On the Czech jazz scene she was often compared to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, both for her voice and her turbulent lifestyle. Czech music critic Jiří Černý compared her to Janis Joplin in one of his reviews. According to Černý, Olmerová's potential for world fame was never realised because of her oppression by two regimes – the Czechoslovak communist regime which banned her performances abroad, and her own "life regime". Vlasta Průchová, another significant singer of her generation, stated that Olmerová "...has everything, what a good jazz singer should have – the feeling, colourful voice and original expression." Her rare feeling for jazz was probably the most valued feature of her style. Her merits as a singer were also appreciated by folk and country bands and aficionados. The somewhat sentimental mood of most contemporary folk and country songs were revitalised under…Citește mai mult

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Jazz Feeling', Supraphon (1969, 2001) Eva Olmerová & The Traditional Jazz Studio, Supraphon (1974)

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