Ivo Pešák

Ivo Pešák (7 September 1944 – 9 May 2011)[1][2] was a Czech musician and actor.

Ivo Pešák
Ivo Pešák wearing a grey t-shirt with breast pocket, holding onto a microphone in a stand with one hand, with a clarinet in the other, looking directly at camera
Pešák in 2007
Background information
Born(1944-09-07)September 7, 1944
Jaroměř, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Died9 May 2011(2011-05-09) (aged 66)
Prague, Czech Republic
Genres
  • Pop
  • folk
  • rock and roll
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • actor
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • clarinet
Formerly of

Early life

Pešák was born in 1944 in the town of Jaroměř, then part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In 1972, he graduated from the Prague Conservatory and then worked for three years in the Central Bohemian Symphony Orchestra in Poděbrady as a clarinetist.[3] Afterward, he taught at a music school for one year.[4]

Career

He is best known for his work with Ivan Mládek, in the latter's Banjo Band, and particularly for his high-spirited performance in the 1977 video for the song "Jožin z bažin".[5] In Pešák's later years, he sang with Václav Upír Krejčí in a vocal duo named Dýza Boys, and he appeared in a number of films, including Trhala fialky dynamitem (1992), as well as television series.[6]

Pešák had his own band, a rock and roll revival group named Rockec Ivo Pešáka. They released two albums: Hej, hej, rock and roll (1996) and Rockec Ivo Pešáka (2002).[7]

Death

Pešák died of heart failure on 9 May 2011, aged 66.[3]

Selected discography

with Rockec Ivo Pešáka

  • Hej, hej, rock and roll (1996)
  • Rockec Ivo Pešáka (2002)

with Dýza Boys

  • Co píseň to HIT! (2002)

References
  1. "News – 5 September 2011 21:30 – Radio Prague". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  2. "Clarinetist and singer Ivo Pěšák dies at age 66 – Radio Prague". Radio.cz. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  3. "Zemřel Ivo Pešák (†66): Selhalo mu srdce" [Ivo Pešák (†66) died: his heart failed]. blesk.cz (in Czech). 9 May 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  4. "Ivo Pešák". pesakivo.sweb.cz (in Czech). Archived from the original on 24 February 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  5. ABC News Archived 7 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine "Zeitgeist," by Ned Potter (10 December 2008 – retrieved on 2 May 2009)
  6. "Ivo Pešák". csfd.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  7. "Rockec". discogs.com. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
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