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Raduza
As a singer, composer of music and lyrics and an instrumentalist, Raduza began her career with a sort of blues repertoire playing on the street. She was soon discovered there in 1993 by a Czech singer named Zuzana Navarova. Three days later Raduza was introduced to a wider public in Lucerna at a concert called, "The end of Czech culture - no!"
In May of the same year she was again performing on the stage in Lucerna as the pre-performer of American pop-star, Suzanne Vega. Raduza then collaborated for two seasons with a band called Nerez. In 1994 Raduza was invited by members of Nerez to participate in the recording of their Christmas CD Nerez in Bethlehem. She released MC at the firm Black Point and, in cooperation with the agency, Krach Jirího Korna, she made a video-clip for Czech television.
In 1996 she performed as the guest of a well-known band, Marsyas, and in February 1996 she cooperated with Michal Pavlícek and the band, Abraxas, on the filming of a television program entitled "Na Klobouku". In the summer of 1999 Rauza performed as the pre-performer of Mike Oldfield. Since January 1999 she has performed in the Cabaret of Václav Koubek in Jazzclub Elezná.
In 2001 Raduza finished her studies at the Prague conservatory, where she graduated from composition with the spiritual cantata recorded by the Czech Radio. In the same year her first album called And?lové z nebe (Angels from Heaven) was released.
Her music is partly derived from chanson, but Raduza is mostly inspired by folk music and the mood of city flash songs, which in her raw presentation offer unexpected musical and text phrases. Therefore she belongs to the youngest generation of Czech alternative music and she is successfully accepted not only in her home country, but also abroad.
— Courtesy Calabash Music