Vokata, Dasa
active from year 1974

underground songstress, poet, composer, dissident. Born in Karvina, North Moravia, in the mid-1970s relocated to an underground community in Rychnov near Decin, North Bohemia. Here she met her future husband, guitarist Zdenek "Londyn" Vokaty. She composed music, wrote lyrics and took part in the underground movement resisting the communist oppression. After signing the anti-communist petition Charta 77 persecuted by the Czech State Security; in 1980 she left Czechoslovakia with her husband and two children and settled in Vienna where she took active part in the Czech exile community life. She is in contact with the singer and songwriters Karel Kryl, Svatopluk Karasek, writer Pavel Tigrid and others. In the studio of Radio Free Europe, Munich, she recorded her first album Laska (Love). After the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia she lived in Bohemia and Austria in turn. She performed together with the underground poet Ivan Martin "Magor" Jirous and lived in his homestead in Prostredni Vydri. After his death, she withdrew from public; only recently she started performing again with the aid of the actor Oldrich Kaiser, who performs in duo with her in a similar way as Magor did before.

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