1. Karel Kryl was a Czechoslovak poet, singer-songwriter and author of many hit protest songs in which he identified and attacked the hypocrisy, stupidity and inhumanity of the Communist regime in his home country.
12 Facts About Karel Kryl
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Karel Kryl has been compared with the young Bob Dylan, because of the complexity of his lyrics, his accompaniment by a single acoustic guitar, and his great popularity.
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Karel Kryl was born on 12 April 1944 in Kromeriz, in the Nazi occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, however his family had roots in Novy Jicin, where they later moved to.
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The Karel Kryl family owned a printing business, which was confiscated from them after the communist takeover in 1948.
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Karel Kryl planned to be a potter and studied at an industrial secondary school in Bechyne where he specialized in ceramics.
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Karel Kryl moved to Prague in 1968 as an assistant at Czechoslovak Television.
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Karel Kryl left Czechoslovakia in 1969 to attend a music festival at Waldeck Castle in West Germany.
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Karel Kryl attained a second, German, graduation in 1973 and went on to study art history and journalism at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, though he never attained a title.
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Karel Kryl went on several tours across Scandinavia, North America and Australia.
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Karel Kryl attacked those who sought to manipulate the Czech and Slovak citizens by nationalist catchphrases and lies about economic transformation.
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On 3 March 1994, just a month before his fiftieth birthday, Karel Kryl died of a heart attack in a Munich hospital.
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Karel Kryl only released one album in Czechoslovakia, but he released many albums while in exile, a prominent example would be Tekute pisky.