Helena Vondráčková

One of the Czech Republic's most popular pop singers, Helena Vondrácková has managed to sustain a career for five decades -- no mean feat -- but also has been able to maintain her popularity in the face of the momentous change, both culturally and socially, that occurred with the fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent dissolution of the former Czechoslovakia at the beginning of the 1990s. Born in Prague on June 24, 1947, Helena first explored music as a child, taking piano lessons at an early age. Her first success in the music world occurred in 1964 when she won a nation...