Helena Vondráčková

Acting • Born 1947-06-24

Acting0Prague, Czechoslovakia

Biography

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)

Filmography

67 credits

The Terribly Sad Princess

Movie • 1968

princezna Helena

Fantom biografu

Movie • 1977

Ostrov plný písniček

Movie • 1977

Helena na horách

Movie • 1977

Kouzelný kolotoč

Movie • 1978

Dům pro Helenu

Movie • 1979

Helena Vondráčková

Barrandovské nokturno aneb Jak film tančil a zpíval

Movie • 1985

Self - Singer

The Tale of John and Mary

Movie • 1980

Mary (singing voice)

Hle Praha, pane Pařížane!

Movie • 1980

Self

Let Him Face the Music!

Movie • 1978

Štědrý den bratří Mánesů

Movie • 1981

Self

Romance ze Savoy baru

Movie • 1982

Zpěváci na kraji nemocnice

Movie • 1982

Kameňák 2

Movie • 2004

Doctor Helena

Intervision Song Contest - schlager i kalla krigets skugga

Movie • 2022

Self

Žabí muzikál

Movie • 1971

Princess Lilinka (singing voice)

Rozvod

Movie • 1970

Eva a její klan

Movie • 1972

Jana (singing voice)

Zpívající film

Movie • 1973

Pět cestujících

Movie • 1972

The Magic Voice of a Rebel

Movie • 2014

Silvestr 79 aneb Hrajeme si jako děti

Movie • 1979

Self

Silvestr na přání aneb Čí jsou hory Kavčí

Movie • 1977

Self

Silvestr 1978

Movie • 1978

Self

Vydržte až do půlnoci!

Movie • 1973

Self

Silvestr je za dveřmi

Movie • 1974

Self

Silvestr na Silvestru

Movie • 1975

Self

Rendez-vous pri Dunaji

Movie • 1970

Self

Silvestr 71

Movie • 1971

Self

Báječné ženy na létajících strojích

Movie • 1978

Helenka

Láska na inzerát

Movie • 1988

Goodbye, Medeo

Movie • 1982

Scheherazade - singer

Dovolená s Helenou

Movie • 1975

Když hvězdy vyplovou...

Movie • 1974

Aristocrat in the Boil

Movie • 2024

Helena Vondráčková

Trhala fialky dynamitem

Movie • 1992

Romance for a Crown

Movie • 1975

Helena Vondráčková

Karel Svoboda: Šťastná léta

Movie • 2020

Self

Women's Revenge

Movie • 2020

sestra na urologii

Michal David 50 – Mejdan roku

Movie • 2010

Nejslavnější české muzikály

Movie • 2020

Letní romance

Movie • 1975

Dobrý večer

Movie • 1982

Ať se lidi mají rádi... aspoň dnes

Movie