Yvonne Přenosilová

Yvonne Přenosilová (2 July 1947 – 11 September 2023) was a Czech singer, actress and radio and television presenter, mainly successful in the 1960s.

Life and career Born in Prague from a Jewish Czech father and an Austrian mother, in 1963 Přenosilová started her career with an audition at the Semafor Theatre, which was included in the film [Audition] by Miloš Forman. but the song became a hit and one of the best-selling Czech singles of the 1960s. Yvonne continued to play in Semafor and sang other Czech remakes of foreign hits, as well as domestic song premieres.

In 1968, Přenosilová signed the Two Thousand Words manifesto, and shortly after the Soviet invasion that ended the Prague Spring she moved with her family to Munich. There, she kept a lower-profile entertainment career, among other things collaborating with Radio Free Europe, while working as a British Airways employee. She eventually returned to Prague in 1994, and worked as a radio and television presenter and as a musical theatre performer. She also appeared in several films and television series. She died on 11 September 2023, at the age of 76.