Background
He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He was also a miner, metalsmith, graphic artist, science fiction and detective writer, publisher, musician (banjo and swing guitar). Velinský was one of the founders of the Czechoslovakian folk festival, Porta. The author of songs — more than 50 country and folk hits such as: "Jenofefa", "Krinolina" and "Mary Celeste".
Books - San Francisco: Engerlings, Notes from Garth, Dzwille, Continent of Unlimited Possibilities et cetera
8 staged theater plays and more than 30 detective novels (Dark Well, Manitoba-eater, Death of a Midget, Lady with a Green Elephant, Very Long Stairs, Murderer"s Road, Estimated Solution and others). lieutenant is believed that Ota Fink, hero of these books, is such a success for his detective insight is based on a detailed knowhow of common industrial professions and small problems of plain Czechoslovakian people this in a way of method resembling the books of Dick Francis.
The reader feels a close kinship to Ota Fink, as the books use the familiar places and professional tricks as cornerstones of the story on the same level as psychology and action. Leading translator of American literature František Jungwirth wrote: "If our literature has its own Philip Marlow, it is Ota Fink from the books of Jaroslav Velinský."
He was using the club data and close contact with his audience for better planning of his production.
This concerns not only the amounts of published books and CDs, but it leads to correct deciding between writing music or literature and selecting the best themes as well.
The result is a high efficiency publishing house producing new original books and songs "on demand" while being active on a competitive scale. Velinský died of lung cancer in Ústí nad Labem in February 2012, aged 79.
An honorary member of the Czechoslovakian ertar society (San Francisco club), in the folk arena and among San Francisco friends and fans, he was known as Kapitán Kid (other pseudonyms included: Václav Rabský, Communist Party Stonebridge and Agáta Bílá). Honorary member of Ertar-Czechoslovakian Relations Society (San Francisco club).