Zuzana Navarová de Tejada (18 June 1959 – 7 December 2004) was a Czech singer and songwriter. She began her career in the early 1980s as a member of Nerez, and gradually become one of the most significant personalities of the Czech folk and world music scene. Her style was partially inspired by Latin American music.
Zuzana Navarová de Tejada (18 June 1959 – 7 December 2004) was a Czech singer and songwriter. She began her career in the early 1980s as a member of Nerez, and gradually become one of the most significant personalities of the Czech folk and world music scene. Her style was partially inspired by Latin American music.
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Biography Navarová studied Spanish and Czech language at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague. A part of her studies Navarová spent in Havana, Cuba where she took music inspiration for her later career. Following her studies she began to work as a teacher. At the end of the 1980s, together with fellow musicians from Nerez, she studied also at the Prague Conservatory. Although she began her music career as a student, with the band Výlety, her breakthrough only came in early 1980s, when she joined Nerez. She met co-founding members of Nerez, Zdeněk Vřešťál and Vít Sázavský, during her studies in Prague. The performances with the band brought her first critical acclaim and popularity. In 1982, she won the best singer award at the festival Vokalíza in Prague. In the 1990s, she began her brief solo career. Her only solo album Caribe she released with Caribe Jazz Quintet in 1992. It was sung in Spanish, in a Latin American musical style, using songs by Pablo Milanés and José Antonio Méndez. Shortly after that, she started a long-lasting collaboration with Colombian songwriter and guitarist Iván Gutiérrez. In 1991, the Czech Music Foundation awarded her as…
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Porta '83 (various artists, 1984)
Dostavník 21: Tisíc dnů mezi námi / Za poledne (7-inch EP, 1984)
Imaginární hospoda (7-inch EP; with Karel Plíhal a Slávek Janoušek) (1986)
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Ke zdi (1990)
Co se nevešlo (Nerez a Vy) (1991)
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Other
Vánoční písně a koledy (Christmas Songs and Carols, 1992)
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Morytáty a balady (1993)
Sloni v porcelánu I. (1999) – sampler
Nebe počká (2004) – Zuzana Navarová sings five songs on the album by Karel Plíhal with lyrics by Josef Kainar
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Smutkům na kabát (2005) – compilation
In 2001, Navarová participated on the album Andělové z nebe by Radůza; Marie Rottrová included two songs by Navarová on her album Podívej (2001).
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Awards
Award of the folk festival PORTA (1982).
The best vocal performance at the Vokalíza in Prague (1982)
The main award from the festival PORTA and Vokalíza (1982)
The librettist of the Year (1990) – awarded by the Czech music Foundation (1991)
Critics'nomination in the category female singers (Czech Grammy Awards) (1993)
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Žlutá ponorka (1999)
Czech Academy of Music awarded her Anděl in the category folk music (2001)
Inducted into Hall of Fame of the Czech Academy of Pop Music (2005)