Ivo Pešák

Ivo Pešák
Ivo Pešák wearing a grey t-shirt with breast pocket, holding onto a microphone in a stand with one hand, with a clarinet in the other, looking directly at camera
Pešák in 2007
Background information
Born(1944-09-07)September 7, 1944
Jaroměř, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Died9 May 2011(2011-05-09) (aged 66)
Prague, Czech Republic
Genres
  • Pop
  • folk
  • rock and roll
Occupations
  • Musician
  • actor
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • clarinet
Formerly of

Ivo Pešák (7 September 1944 – 9 May 2011)[1][2] was a Czech musician and actor.

Early life

Pešák was born in 1944 in the town of Jaroměř, then part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.[citation needed] In 1972, he graduated from the Prague Conservatory and then worked for three years in the Central Bohemian Symphony Orchestra in Poděbrady as a clarinetist.[3] Afterward, he taught at a music school for one year.[4]

Career

He is best known for his work with Ivan Mládek, in the latter's Banjo Band, and particularly for his high-spirited performance in the 1977 video for the song "Jožin z bažin".[5] In Pešák's later years, he sang with Václav Upír Krejčí in a vocal duo named Dýza Boys, and he appeared in a number of films, including Trhala fialky dynamitem (1992), as well as television series.[6]

Pešák had his own band, a rock and roll revival group named Rockec Ivo Pešáka. They released two albums: Hej, hej, rock and roll (1996) and Rockec Ivo Pešáka (2002).[7]

Death

Pešák died of heart failure on 9 May 2011, aged 66.[3]

Selected discography

with Rockec Ivo Pešáka

  • Hej, hej, rock and roll (1996)
  • Rockec Ivo Pešáka (2002)

with Dýza Boys

  • Co píseň to HIT! (2002)

References

  1. ^ "News – 5 September 2011 21:30 – Radio Prague". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Clarinetist and singer Ivo Pěšák dies at age 66 – Radio Prague". Radio.cz. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Zemřel Ivo Pešák (†66): Selhalo mu srdce" [Ivo Pešák (†66) died: his heart failed]. blesk.cz (in Czech). 9 May 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Ivo Pešák". pesakivo.sweb.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 24 February 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  5. ^ ABC News Archived 7 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine "Zeitgeist," by Ned Potter (10 December 2008 – retrieved on 2 May 2009)
  6. ^ "Ivo Pešák". csfd.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Rockec". discogs.com. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
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