EVA PILAROVA Czech Pop Singer surprisingly rare signed 1970's color photo

Description

Surprisingly rare autograph!  6.25" x 9.5" color half tone 1970's autographed photograph of the Czech jazz singer, actress, cookbook writer and photographer.
Eva Pilarová (1939 -
) is a Czech jazz and pop music singer, actress and photographer.
She studied singing on the Janáček's Academy of Arts in Brno. Her idols were Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. In 1960, she became a member of the Semafor Theater in Prague where she sang alongside performers such as Jiří Suchý and Jiří Šlitr. In 1962 she left the theatre temporarily to sing in the Theater Rokoko, but in 1964 returned to Semafor. In the same year she also played had a minor role in the film "If a Thousand Clarinets" (as a chorus-singer of the girl school). During her singing career she has had a large number of hits, including duets with Waldemar Matuška, Karel Gott and others.
After the Velvet revolution of 17 November 1989 she travelled several times to United States, to sing before all for Czech emigrants.
She has been active in her profession continuously until today. She wrote two cookbooks. Since 2005 Pilarova is also a photographer, especially of nature and cities and has had several photo exhibitions in the Czech Republic.
Respect
The Czech writer Josef Škvorecký loved her voice and singing, he praised her repeatedly:
Without her art, something would be missing in the Czech culture.
If there was anybody, who could sing everything, it was Pilarka.