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Michal David
Biography and careerHe started his music career during his studies in Prague Conservatory in the 1970s where he created a jazz band with his friends, as jazz has been Michal's main passion and an academic concentration.However, after a short period of time, he was hired by a successful pop-music producer František Janecek as a piano player and singer.
He joined Janecek's pop-music band and soon became a teenage girls' idol.After the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution in 1989, Michal David as well many other Czechoslovak popular singers fell on hard times, since the political situation changed rapidly and the market started to open to other foreign artists and domestic artists lost their popularity for a while.
He was also called a pro-regime singer by some critics.
During this time Michal David was mainly focusing on composing and songwriting rather than performing.His popularity was restored again in 1998 when he composed and sang "hymn" for the Czech national ice hockey team, which won the Nagano Winter Olympics that year.Then, in 2000, he contributed to the comeback of another famous Czech female singer Helena Vondrácková by writing her hit song "Dlouhá noc".In 2002 Michal David officially composed his own first "Musical Show" called "Kleopatra" which premiered in Prague theatre Broadway.
Since then, Michal has composed 4 other musicals, where he was not only a songwriter but the producer as well.One of his songs appeared in Eli Roth's movie "Hostel".Michal David was a vocal coach on the TV reality talent show The Voice, starting in February 2011 on Czech and Slovak National TV.Personal lifeMichal David is currently living in Prague, Czech Republic with his wife Marcela (Marcela Skuherská), a former successful professional tennis player from the 1980s.
(She won the "Fed Cup" in 1983 and 1984 with her team members Helena Suková, Hana Mandlíková and Iva Budarová, and participated in competitions such as US Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon).
Michal's only daughter, Klára, is currently living in New York, where she studies Art at Sarah Lawrence College.David has been associated with many charities and non-profits since the death of his second daughter Michaela who died on leukemia at the age of 11.
