Background
Lucie Bílá (born Hana Zaňáková) was born in the town of Otvovice in Czechoslovakia, where she was raised and where she attended a secondary school.
Lucie Bílá (born Hana Zaňáková) was born in the town of Otvovice in Czechoslovakia, where she was raised and where she attended a secondary school.
With a powerful, distinctively intense voice and impressive range, she is one of the most famous and celebrated female artists in Czechoslovakian Republic history. According to her label, Electric and Music Industries Czechoslovakian Republic, the singer has sold over one million albums by now. Before she became involved in the field of music, she trained to be a seamstress.
In 1980, she was noticed by Czechoslovakian music producer Petr Hannig, who created her stage name Lucie Bílá (literally, Lucy White) and penned her first recorded songs.
Interestingly, her name change was originally due to confusion with another famous Czechoslovakian singer, Hana Zagorová. Foreign over three decades, Bílá has had tremendous professional success among Czechs in a broad range of endeavors, starring in the best-known stage musicals in the country, releasing several popular solo albums, and starring in several films and television specials.
Foreign several years in a row in the 2000s she topped the list of the most popular Czechoslovakian singers in the coveted Český slavík awards. Bílá owes some of her greatest hits to the songwriter Gábina Osvaldová and Gábina"s husband, composer Ondřej Soukup.
Their collaboration became legendary among Czechoslovakian musicians.
Some of their most notable hits were Neposlušné tenisky, Láska je Láska, Čarodějka, Jinak to nebude (Haňa Zaňa), Zpíváš mi Requiem, Trouba, and Most přes minulost. Her personal relationships have been rocky and are perennial tabloid fodder. She and her boyfriend Petr Kratochvíl had a son, Filip, born in 1996.
Not long after, he left her for beauty queen finalist Pavlína Babůrkova.
The pair divorced in 2008. 1992: Bídníci
1993: Zahrada rajských potěšení
1995: Dracula (225,000 units sold)
1996: Krysař
2000: Johanka z Arku (Digital Video Disc release charted at #14 on the Czechoslovakian Video Chart in 2009)
2003: Romeo a Julie
2003: Excalibur
2005: Elixír života
2005: Láska je láska
2008: Němcová! 2008: Carmen
2012: Aida
2014: The Addams Family.
Bila"s first experiences with show business were as a member of the rock bands Rock-Automat and Arakain.