Michal Horácek

Since the 1980s, lyricist Michal Horácek has slowly transformed the way music is heard in the Czech Republic. Not long after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, Horácek made his way through guile and pluck through a tour of the United States, soaking in the culture and music of the early '70s along the way. He returned to Czechoslovakia, becoming a journalist (and specializing in horse racing news, contracted by Kentucky newspapers as the Eastern European correspondent). After some time spent in relative obscurity, Horácek turned to his other passion, songwri...