Karel Gott - My path to happiness. A unique autobiography of the greatest legend of the Czech and Czechoslovakian music scene of all time. An authentic picture of the fascinating life path of an exceptional artist with an international reputation, who began to shine in the musical sky in his twenties. The publication contains approximately 1,800 photographs and other pictorial and documentary materials, many of which have not yet been published. At the end of his stellar career, Karel Gott decided to recap his exceptional life story - to write his own autobiography. He completed the book during his lifetime and also worked intensively on pictorial documentation until his last days. He talks openly about his privacy, daughters, marriage, but also about things that have been shrouded in secrecy for various reasons until now. His memories go back to his earliest childhood, they tell about his parents and extended family, about his school years, about his friends and personal hobbies, which included painting especially in his boyhood years. He is self-critical and extremely honest in his inventory of fate, especially in the final chapters, in which he describes a difficult period of struggle with an insidious disease. Readers thus get their hands on a comprehensive, in many ways captivating picture of the fateful upheaval of an exceptional personality who, thanks to her innate talent, unique voice, immense diligence, hard work, honesty, decency and personal commitment, gave the audience beauty, joy and herself until the very end of her life. life's pilgrimage.

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