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Karel Gott
Czech singer and actor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karel Gott (14 July 1939 – 1 October 2019) was a Czech pop singer. He was thought to be the most successful male singer in the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.[1][2] He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual Český slavík over forty times, most recently in 2017. Gott was born in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
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100 albums and 100 compilation albums,[1] 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).[3]
In 1968, he competed in the Eurovision Song Contest with his song "Tausend Fenster".
On 12 September 2019 it was announced that Gott was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).[4] He died on 1 October 2019 from the disease at a Prague hospital at the age of 80.[5]