Sedlacek, Pavel
active from year 1961
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One of the first Czech rock'n' roll singers. Founder of one of the first "big-beat" bands (that is how rock'n'roll music was called to cover it real nature from the official authorities) in Prague. It worked under various names ((EP Hi-fi, Studijni skupina big-beatu, later Skupina Pavla Sedlacka)) and variable line-up since 1961 . One of the many branches of the band was Karkulka, later renamed to Olympic. In 1962 Sedlacek sings in the cultic small theatre Semafor. At that time he met his later wife, popular singer Eva Pilarova. They recorded together the love duet Hey Paula. Sedlacek was closely monitored by the communist intelligence ("State Security") as a propagator of "western culture", furthermore quite commercially succesful. One careless step was enough (attempt to procure a car from Western Germany) to put him in prison for about 7 months in 1965. After his return, he sang sporadically with the bands Mefisto and Flamengo. In 1967 he played rock'n'roll revival with Rogers Band. In 1968 he founded the band Colour Images playing mainly R&B, a year later the nine-member R&B band Expression with wind section in the style of Blood, Sweat and Tears. In 1968 he took his university degree in machine engineering. In 1970's he tends to pop, singing with bands Fontana (1973-75), Kroky Zdenka Kalhouse (1976) and various dancing orchestras; then a long silence followed. After 1989 he started his own business in gastronomy, also an actor and moderator of his own revues. He occasionally comes back to singing with his own band Cadillac.
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