“European legend” … the death of the 900-songwriter in the Czech Republic

Hana Zagorova, who is considered a singing legend in the Czech Republic today, passed away at the age of 75.

The famous singer presented about 900 songs during her long career and won many awards and sold more than 10 million copies of her work, and also participated in a number of films as well as

Zagorova was born on the 6th of September 1946 and grew up in the Ostrava region. Father Joseph Zakoura was a civil engineer, and mother Edeltroda was a teacher.

Appearing on former socialist East German television and singing several songs in German, Zagorova was among the artists who signed the so-called Anti-Charter Manifesto in 1977, the civil rights reform movement in former communist Czechoslovakia led by playwright Vaclav Havel.