Iggy pop ivan kral biography

  • Ivan Král (– 2 February 2020) was a Czech-born American composer, filmmaker, guitarist, record producer, bassist, and singer-songwriter.
  • Ivan Kral was born in 1948 in Prague, Czechoslovakia to a musician mother and journalist father.
  • The Prague-born songwriter and musician had his first brush with fame at the age of sixteen when a track by his band Saze broke the top ten in.

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    Ivan Král

    Czech-American musician (1948–2020)

    Musical artist

    Ivan Král (12 May 1948 – 2 February 2020) was a Czech-born Americancomposer, filmmaker, guitarist, record producer, bassist, and singer-songwriter.[1] He worked across genres including pop music, punk rock, garage rock, rock, jazz, soul, country and film scores. His music has been recorded by such artists as U2,[2][3]Téléphone,[4]Patti Smith,[5]Iggy Pop,[6]David Bowie,[7]Simple Minds,[8] and John Waite,[9] among others, and he won three times at the Anděl Awards.[10] He died of cancer in 2020, aged 71.[11][12]

    Biography

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    Early life

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    Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), Ivan Král moved to the United States in 1966 as a refugee[13] with his parents, who were diplomats. His father Karel Král, a reporter at the United Nations, brought worldwide attention to the pending Warsaw Pactinvasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and publicly denounced the action,[14] subsequently deciding not to return.[15] Král had refugee status until 1981 when he obtained U.S. citizenship.

    Early career and the Patti Smith Group

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    Kral's American music

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    Ivan Kral

    Ivan Kral

    Kral with Patti Smith rivet 1978

    Birth nameIvan KrálBorn(1948-05-12)12 Can 1948
    Prague, CzechoslovakiaDied2 February 2020(2020-02-02) (aged 71)
    Ann Bower, Michigan, U.S.GenresRock, pop, talking, alternative boulder, protopunkOccupation(s)Musician, songster, record creator, film directorInstrumentsGuitar, piano, keyboard, bass, vocalsYears active1966–2020LabelsArista, PolyGram, Universal, Chrysalis, Sony, BMG, SupraphonWebsiteOfficial website

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    In memoriam: Ivan Král – Czech musician who worked with Patti Smith, Iggy Pop

    Ivan Král, photo: Luboš Vedral / Czech Radio

    In the summer of 1966, the teenage Ivan Král moved to New York with his mother and older brother to join his father, who had been working at the United Nations headquarters as a journalist and translator for several years.

    A diehard rock music fan who wrote his first song when he was five, Král recalled in a 2006 Radio Prague interview that he steered clear of hippies – and especially the drugs – so pervasive during the Summer of Love and among the New York punk/glam rock scene.

    “It was frightening to me... All love and Woodstock, I really wanted to stay away from it and finish my studies. I was more into the Rolling Stones and Little Richard than the peace movement, flower children.

    “Except there was one frightening moment. Of course, the Vietnam War was devastating, and I was recruited. I got a [draft pick] number to go to Vietnam in my sophomore year. Luckily, I wasn’t to be trusted yet, because I wasn’t a citizen. But I was considered as a translator from Russian to English.”

    “I used to tell Iggy, once you behave and we’re really doing proper music, then I’d love to play behind you.”

    Ivan Král earned a degree in French literature befor

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