Over the years, Vladimir Mišík has been the leader of many well-known bands such as ETC, Blue Effect, Matadors, Energit and Kometa. Many of his songs became popular hits and listening to Mišík’s music during the communist era was considered an expression of dissent, despite the fact that he had never sung protest songs and was not not an “underground” singer either.

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Although Mišík has seventeen LPs to his credit, two of the most recent are particularly worth mentioning. His LP “Ztracený podzim”, or Lost Autumn, released in 2010, was critically acclaimed. Although the name and cover of the album may sound melancholy, the album is full of full, natural sounds and raw energy. It was recorded in a way that albums used to be done back in the day – not digitally, but analog, which makes it easier on the ear.

His 2019 LP titled Jednou tě ​​potkám or I will meet you one day is even more special. The singer and songwriter calls it “the most personal album he’s ever made.”

The reason is that it reflects his emotions during a defining period of his life when the 72-year-old rocker from Prague found out who his father was. He never knew his father, and all he was told about him was that he was an American soldier who went to the United States after Czechoslovakia was liberated and eventually fell during the Korean War. It turned out that was not true. His father lived in the United States until the 1990s and had nine children – nine siblings whom Mišík did not find out about until he was 72 years old. One of the highlights of the album is the song Brothers, sung in duet with Irish musician Paul Brady in Czech and English, which relates to the exact moment when Mišík discovered the truth about his American father and his lost family. . That’s also why all the Czech lyrics on the album are translated into English in the attached booklet – so that his American brothers and sisters can understand the songs.