Věra Bílá
created: 08. 07. 2021 09:50 modified: 08. 07. 2021 09:51
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
VĚRA BÍLÁ
She was born on May 22, 1954, Rokycany, Czech Republic. She was a singer, musician and actress. She came from the well-known musical family of Karol Giňa. Her unique voice color and specific vocal expression have secured her a permanent place on the music scene at home and abroad. In 1995, together with young musicians (Emil "Bišu" Miko, Emil "Pupa" Miko, Jan Dužda, Deziderius Lučka and Milan Kroka, later he was replaced by Marek Miko), they created the musical phenomenon of Věra Bílá and Kale. Musically, they defined a genre known as rom-pop: sophisticated vocal harmonies with vigorous dissonances in a mixture of Romani folk music, pop and Latin jazz. Věra Bílá also acted in two films by director Dušan Hanák: Pink Dreams (1976), I Love, You Love (1980). In May 1999, with the group Kale, she thrilled the Czech-American audience in Washington D.C. and in New York, where she performed as the leading star at the festival of the Romani culture from Czech Republic. Music experts often likened Věra Bílá to the American black star Elle Fitzgerald. She died on March 12, 2019 in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
author: Jozef Fečo
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 30. 11. 2020
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Věra Bílá general audience internal
