Karel Gott

About the plant

Plant: Wollemia nobilis
Botanical name: Wollemia nobilis
Planting year: 2009
Planters or representatives: Karel Gott

Mature size: tree; smaller in cultivation than in the wild
Flowering: cones; no true flowers
Lifespan and documented age: A numerical lifespan range is not established by the references used.
Reading these figures: Taxon characteristics; actual size and flowering in the garden depend on conditions.

Wollemi pine was discovered in Australia in 1994. This rare conifer is related to araucarias; cultivation helps build knowledge of a previously hidden species.

Listed size: tree; smaller in cultivation than in the wild. Flowering or reproductive structures: cones; no true flowers. These describe the taxon, rather than a measurement of the particular plant in Prague.

Lifespan: A numerical lifespan range is not established by the references used.

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About the person

Name: Karel Gott
Personality type: musician
Date of birth: 14 July 1939
Place of birth: Plzeň
Date of death: 1 October 2019
Place of death: Praha-Smíchov
Notable achievements and career: He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual Český slavík (Czech Nightingale) national music award 42 times, most recently in 2017.
He achieved considerable success in the USSR and the German-speaking countries, where he was known as "the Golden Voice of Prague", winning the Goldene Stimmgabel award three times (1982, 1984, and 1995).
Over the course of his career he released over 100 albums and 100 compilation albums, and sold an estimated 50–100 million records worldwide, 23 million of them in the German-speaking market, and about 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
People and participants: Karel Gott

Karel Gott (14 July 1939 – 1 October 2019) was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He was voted the country’s best male singer in the annual Český slavík (Czech Nightingale) national music award 42 times, most recently in 2017.

He achieved considerable success in the USSR and the German-speaking countries, where he was known as “the Golden Voice of Prague”, winning the Goldene Stimmgabel award three times (1982, 1984, and 1995). Over the course of his career he released over 100 albums and 100 compilation albums, and sold an estimated 50–100 million records worldwide, 23 million of them in the German-speaking market, and about 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Karel Gott

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