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Zuzana Navarová de Tejada (18 June 1959, Hradec Králové – 7 December 2004, Prague) was a Czech singer and songwriter. She began her career in the early 1980s as a member of ''Nerez'', and gradually become one of the most significant personalities of the Czech folk and world music scene. Her style was partially inspired by Latin American music. == Biography == Navarová studied Spanish and Czech language at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague. A part of her studies Navarová spent in Havana, Cuba where she took music inspiration for her later career.〔 Following her studies she began to work as a teacher. At the end of the 1980s, together with fellow musicians from Nerez, she studied also at the Prague Conservatory.〔 Although she began her music career as a student, with the band ''Výlety'', her breakthrough only came in early 1980s, when she joined Nerez. She met co-founding members of Nerez, Zdeněk Vřešťál and Vít Sázavský, during her studies in Prague. The performances with the band brought her first critical acclaim and popularity. In 1982, she won the best singer award at the festival ''Vokalíza'' in Prague. In the 1990s, she began her brief solo career. Her only solo album ''Caribe'' she released with ''Caribe Jazz Quintet'' in 1992. It was sung in Spanish, in a Latin American musical style, using songs by Pablo Milanés and José Antonio Méndez. Shortly after that, she started a long-lasting collaboration with Colombian songwriter and guitarist Iván Gutiérrez. In 1991, the ''Czech Music Foundation'' awarded her as the best librettist of 1990.〔Svanovská (2009), p. 105〕 ''Nerez'' ended its activities in 1993, following the recording of the album ''Nerez v Betlémě''. In 1994 she recorded another album with the band ''Tres'', and since 1998 she began collaboration with the band ''Koa''. In 2000, Gutiérrez moved to Madrid and ''Koa'' engaged a Romani musician Mário Bihári, with whom Navarová collaborated for the rest of her career. She composed music for theatre plays and participated also in other musical activities. At the beginning of the 1990s she helped establishing the foundation ''Nadace Život umělce''. As a producer, she collaborated with Věra Bílá and ''Kale'') and helped at the beginning of the career of singer and accordionist Radůza. In the early 2000s she became ill with cancer, but attempted to conceal her health condition from public and secretly underwent treatment. Navarová died of cancer in December, 2004. She was 45. She performed at the stage with ''Koa'' even in the last days of her life; her last concert with the band took place in Prague, on 14 November 2004.〔 During her stay in Cuba, Navarová married Luís de Tejada, whose name she later adopted. However, in later years she severed contacts with her husband. Iván Gutiérrez later indicated that Navarová married for the purpose of helping de Tejada to emigrate from Cuba. The lyrics by Navarová from 1998 to 2004 were published in 2009, under the title ''Andělská počta''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zuzana Navarová」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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