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Karel Gott

1939 - 2019

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Karel Gott (14 July 1939 – 1 October 2019) was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual Český slavík (Czech Nightingale) national music award 42 times, most recently in 2017. He achieved considerable success in the USSR and the German-speaking countries, where he was known as "the Golden Voice of Prague", winning the Goldene Stimmgabel award three times (1982, 1984, and 1995). Over the course of his career he released over 100 albums and 100 compilation albums, and sold an estimated 50–100 million records worldwide, 23 million of them in the German-speaking market, and about 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Gott is the 99th most popular singer (down from 79th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 53rd in 2019) and the most popular Czech Singer.

Karel Gott is a Czech singer who is most famous for his rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town."

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Karel Gott ranks 99 out of 4,381. Before him are Lys Assia, Glen Campbell, Tiny Tim, Eros Ramazzotti, Dieter Bohlen, and Rihanna. After him are Frank Sinatra Jr., Bonnie Tyler, Domenico Modugno, Anatoliy Solovianenko, Johnny Hallyday, and Víctor Jara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Karel Gott ranks 23. Before him are Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Reuven Rivlin, Margaret Atwood, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, James Fox, and Ralph Lauren. After him are Jean-Marie Lehn, Jackie Stewart, Romano Prodi, Michèle Mercier, Harry Kroto, and Laurent-Désiré Kabila. Among people deceased in 2019, Karel Gott ranks 21. Before him are Peter Mayhew, Frank Lucas, Manfred Eigen, I. M. Pei, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Peter Fonda. After him are Agnès Varda, Beji Caid Essebsi, Franco Zeffirelli, Doris Day, Marie Fredriksson, and Bert Hellinger.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Gott ranks 68 out of 1,200. Before him are Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), Karl Renner (1870), and Ludvík Svoboda (1895). After him are Princess Sophie of Hohenberg (1901), Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Lída Baarová (1914), Jerome of Prague (1379), and Franz Werfel (1890).

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Among SINGERS In Czechia

Among singers born in Czechia, Karel Gott ranks 1. After him are Helena Vondráčková (1947), Marta Kubišová (1942), Emmy Destinn (1878), Maria Jeritza (1887), Leo Slezak (1873), Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861), Magdalena Kožená (1973), Iveta Bartošová (1966), Marta Jandová (1974), Ewa Farna (1993), and Filip Bandžak (1983).

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