Karel Kryl was a popular Czech singer-songwriter and performer of many protest songs in which he strongly criticized and identified the shortcomings and inhumanity of the Communist and later capitalistic regime in his home country.

Kryl moved to Prague in 1968 as an assistant at Czechoslovak Television. In his spare time he performed his songs in numerous small clubs. When the Warsaw Pact armies occupied Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, to suppress the Prague Spring reform movement, Kryl released his album Brat<#345;í<#269;ku zavírej vrátka (Close the Gate, Little Brother), full of songs describing his disgust at the occupation, his views on life under communist rule, and his perception of the crude inhumanity and stupidity of the regime. The album was released in early 1969 and was banned and removed from shelves shortly after. Faced with certain imprisonment, Kryl left Czechoslovakia in 1969 to live in West Germany. For the majority of his time in exile, Kryl worked for Radio Free Europe and released a number of albums during this period. Many of these songs became iconic back in his homeland and a symbol of protest.

In the enthusiastic November days of 1989, during the Velvet Revolution, Kryl returned to Czechoslovakia, but was reportedly disappointed with the transformation of society.[1] On March 3, 1994, just a month before his fiftieth birthday, Karel Kryl died of a heart attack in a Passau hospital

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Discography

Kryl's grave at the B<#345;evnov cemetery at St. Margharet in Prague

Karel Kryl has only released one album in Czechoslovakia (Brat<#345;í<#269;ku, zavírej vrátka),[3] but he has released many albums while in exile, a prominent example would be Tekuté písky.[4]
Brat<#345;í<#269;ku, zavírej vrátka (1969, LP, Panton, <#268;SSR)
Rakovina (1969, LP, Primaphon, Germany)
Maškary (1970, LP, Caston, Germany)
Carmina Resurrectionis (1974, EP, Caston, Germany)
Karavana mrak<#367; (1979, LP, Šafrán 78, Sweden)
Plavá<#269;ek (1983)
Ocelárna (1984, EP)
Dopisy (1988, MC)
Tekuté písky (1990, LP, MC, CD, Bonton, Czechoslovakia)
Dv<#283; p<#367;le lunety aneb rebelant o lásce (1992, recitation poems of Karel Kryl)
Monology (1992, LP, CD, MC Janez, Czechoslovakia)
To nejlepší 1 (1993, CD, MC, Bonton, Czech Republic)
D<#283;kuji (1995)
Jed<#367;fky (1996)
To nejlepší 2 (1998)

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