Career
However, after a short period of time, he was hired by a successful popular-music producer František Janeček as a piano player and singer. He joined Janeček"s popular-music band and soon became a teenage girls" idol. After the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution in 1989, Michal David as well many other Czechoslovak popular singers fell on hard times, since the political situation changed rapidly and the market started to open to other foreign artists and domestic artists lost their popularity for a while.
He was also called a pro-regime singer by some critics.
During this time Michal David was mainly focusing on composing and songwriting rather than performing. Then, in 2000, he contributed to the comeback of another famous Czechoslovakian female singer Helena Vondráčková by writing her hit song "Dlouhá noc".
In 2002 Michal David officially composed his own first "Musical Show" called "Kleopatra" which premiered in Prague theatre Broadway. Since then, Michal has composed 4 other musicals, where he was not only a songwriter but the producer as well.
His song "Treti Galaxie" appeared in Eli Roth"s movie "Hostel".
Michal David was a vocal coach on the television reality talent show The Voice, starting in February 2011 on Czechoslovakian and Slovak National television