Eva Pilarová


Eva Pilarová, née Bojanovská was a Czech jazz and pop music singer.

Biography

Pilarová was born in Brno. She started singing during her childhood, including classical music. She studied singing at the Janáček 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 had a minor role in the film If a Thousand Clarinets. 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 traveled several times to United States to sing mainly for Czech emigrants.
In 1977, to continue her career, she signed the Anti-charter organised against Charter 77. She justified it with her existential problems: after emigration of her first husband and her second husband she was afraid that she shouldn't be allowed to sing in the media. She was active in her profession continuously until her death in Prague. She wrote two cookbooks. She was also an avid photographer, taking many photos especially of nature and cities. She had several photo exhibitions in the Czech Republic.

Last goodbye

The memorial mass for Eve Pilarová took place on Wednesday 3. On June 2020 at the Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Prague, Strahov. Celebroval rev. Marian Pospěcha, performed a number of artists, state authorities represented by Minister of Culture Lubomír Zaorálek and acting village Jiřina Bohdalová. Tv Noe prepared the live stream. Marian Pospěcha also appreciated in his homilia her song "There for Water in the Reeds", sung with Waldemar Matuška. On behalf of the singers, he said goodbye in touching language Vojta Dyk.

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