Marika Gombitová

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Marika Gombitová (Slovak:

OPUS Records.[2] The album's lead "Vyznanie",[3] earned several music awards; most notably at the 4th Intervision Song Contest held in Poland (1980).[4][5] In years to come later, the love anthem
was to be celebrated as "The Hit of the Century" (2007) in her country.

Shortly before launching the second LP,

№5 (1984)[12] would find her experimenting with electronic music, giving Gombitová some of her strongest reviews
, for a change.

More recently the singer has carried on achieving commercial success through a radio-friendly format. Her consecutively running

studio collection
of pop tunes to date.

Gombitová is regarded in popular culture as a dominant figure

Slovak contemporary music,[17] having six out of nine full-length records listed among The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time.[18][19][20] In her homebase, she is often recognized as The Songstress of the 20th Century (2000),[21][22] and has been quoted as an inspiration by various local artists since. Inducted into the ZAI Hall of Fame at the age of barely forty years,[23][24]
her work remains covered and a radio favorite in the region.

Biography

Early life and recordings

"Koloseum"
One of the singer's most recognized songs from 1987. The lyrics stress her interrupted career, culminating in the chorus: Coliseum, glory to fall ▪ How many times time's come to halt ▪ A stone is glorious after all ▪ Coliseum, fame is a fall ▪ How many times time's come to halt ▪ The stone is famous on its own ▪ Above all alone
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Marika Gombitová was born on 12 September 1956 in the village of

piano lessons in the local Ľudová škola umenia (LŠU) in Stropkov. Following her failure to study singing at the Music school, she continued with engineering in Košice. While on high school, she sang with an amateur band called Profily. Later she would shortly perform for the orchestras of Juraj Szabadoš and Július Olajoš, respectively.[26]

In 1975, Gombitová made her first recordings ("Karta" and "Nájdem hviezdu") at

Slovak Radio Košice. The next year, she received an offer from Janko Lehotský, frontman of the Modus band, to join his professional group. Following the leaving exam she, therefore, moved to Bratislava[26] and got an initial exposure in Slovak Television with songs "Lúčenie" and "Túto pieseň spievam vám" (both co-written by Lehotský), performed in Chvíľa pre pesničku in 1976.[27] At first, she would release a number of singles with Modus (such as "Veľký sen mora", "Margaréta", "Zažni" – all from 1977) as a backing vocalist. Her solo part came along with the Bratislavská lýra '77 winning composition "Úsmev" that featured also vocal contributions by Lehotský, Miro Žbirka and Miro Jevčák.[28] Subsequently, Gombitová recorded her debut solo single entitled "Boľavé námestie."[29] For the first time, her name appears in the national music poll Zlatý slavík, being ranked as the 46th Most Popular Female Singer in Czechoslovakia in 1977 (Modus scored at number #6).[30]

"Študentská láska," "Vyznanie," Intervision prize and car crash

Further information: Car crash of Marika Gombitová

"There's no way to deal with this, and if someone claims such thing, you don't buy it."

—Gombitová on account of her suffered damages[31]

The second solo single by Gombitová, "

SP in July in Slovakia.[32] She also recorded four tracks on the Motion Picture Soundtrack of Smoliari (issued in 1979), and her position in annual Zlatý slavík skyrocketed to number #4 this time (Next year she scored at #3, while at #2 in 1980).[33] Following her contribution to the Collegium Musicum's full length project entitled On a Ona, Gombitová along with Modus was headed in February 1979 to the recording studio to work on their self-titled debut album. In addition, she would also release her own debut set Dievča do dažďa. With its pilot single "Vyznanie," Gombitová entered the 4th Intervision Song Festival held in Sopot, Poland on 20–23 August 1980. As a result, she received the first prize in the competition representing record companies, shared with Nikolai Gnatiuk from Russia (for the song "Dance on a Drum").[4]

Artistry

Voice and timbre

Prior to crash
"Muž Nula"
While continuing her musical evolution with Mince na dne fontán in 1983, singer helped popularize electronic musical instruments. In a more comprehensive manner to receive a synthesized voice in place of her own, she utilized vocoder for such tracks as "Skúška prvých šiat" and "Muž Nula".[34]
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With

The Songstress of the Century in the 20th century.[21][22]

Reactions to the "childlike quality"

organ pipes". He would also emphasize her "absolutely extraordinary way to split a melody" and "phrasing that brings an outstanding tension – the bigger the slower is [her] composition".[42][43] Other critics, such as one of the Czech most intransigent Jan Rejžek, he described Gombitová's voice as "circularly laserlike",[44] and even later looked up to artist as a "self-sufficient and sovereign rival of Zlatý slavík-winning singers" who is aware when "to set toxic heights to make your flesh so longly-for creep – making it a party, instead public holiday".[45] In response to her second set Môj malý príbeh (1980), record producer Július Kinček stated that writing about "[her] original vocal, excellent technique, sound sense for rock genre, flawless phrasing and great musicianship... [it] has already become by now bringing the wood to the forest". He also attributed much of her success to Gombitová's "admirable way to seize emotional tension of compositions on the first place".[46] Nevertheless, Marián Jaslovský as the only criticized most of the singer's vocal outputs from the soundtrack Neberte nám princeznú (1980), and reportedly for her "traditionally artificial exhibition", which he saw unsupportive toward fluidity of Ursiny's songs.[47]

After crash

"In Vyznanie I have one part in awful heights. That can't be managed just technically, I must put into it with all my body. As I [am to] sit, my strain is twice as big. Those tones hang above me before each concert."

—Artist about her tour de force internationally known as "Why (Must I Always Fail)?"[48]

Following the crash, Gombitová lost

Mladá fronta praised her ensuing live performances on Mince na dne fontán Tour (1983) for "[her] excellent vocal dispositions and secure intonation".[51][52] Život magazine, for a change, documented "the sincerity of [her] testimony, persuasiveness of [her] interpretation, which extends to simplicity."[34] Author Vladimír Petr from Rytmus circumscribed her vocalizing in depth, pointing for the singer's voice out "[it] is none of average that would disturb, or attract. The other way around, [and] for which applies only two extreme options as maximum – either you accept it as it comes with its provocative metallic pitches and [her] girlish whisper, or you are not capable of listening to, due to all said attributes."[53]

Over the course of her career, Gombitová's voice grew deeper and fuller as noticed by Populár in the middle of the 1980s. Ivan Kytka observed on her

Žbirka, with whom Gombitová recorded two of her final recordings to date, finds difficult in essence to inspire artist with a new material.[58]

Music videos and live performances

Music videos

Prior to the music video-era, which arrived with the

B-side of her debut single that followed shortly.[29] In 1978, her "Letná pieseň" found a rapport on additional televised charts, such as Našich 9,[61] which she eventually topped with duet "S tou nádejou choď spať" featuring Lehotský.[62] Needless to say, censorship had been a regular subject of intense debate during the red regime in her country[63][64] and the communist party maintained to supervise lyrical content of all public recordings by means of then devoted committees.[65][66] Gombitová thus would not gain a full control over her own creative outputs.[63] At least until the perestroika's initial period that allowed more independent actions towards cultural field, including some market-like reforms similar to Western style.[67]

Furthermore, her mobility impairment has led to herself being viewed as a

the federal state in the 1990s, Gombitová became on 20 June 1990 the first local singer to appear on the Austrian video chart Die Großen Zehn, presenting for ORF "Babylónia", the lead single from her Kam idú ľudia? set.[71]

Live performances

Discography

Main article: Marika Gombitová discography
Studio albums

Filmography

Year Film Role Director(s) Notes
1978 Smoliari Mira (voice role) Dušan Kodaj [72]
1981 Neberte nám princeznú Katka Martin Hoffmeister [73]
1986 Pa a Pi (voice role) Miroslav Sobota and Dalimil Koutek
  • Short TV miniseries
 [74]

Tours

  • 2016: Marika Gombitová a priatelia (one-off concert featuring also a tribute by other artists)
  • 2017: Sen Mariky Gombitovej (upcoming one-off Christmas concert featuring also special guests)

Books

Legacy

Honors and awards

Totals
Awards won 46
Nominations 124
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Marika Gombitová

"Guess you have realized I am not a racer but singer. I'm naturally glad about each success, but I don't suffer from the "Gold Nightingale" syndrome and [I] have no longing for aviaries."

—Singer commenting the public music poll[75]

Marika Gombitová has received numerous awards and accolades in recognition of her success in the music industry. At the turn of the 3rd millennium, she was named

Lehotský "Tajomstvo hier").[80] Prior to surviving her car crash, she received an Intervision award from the East European International Radio and Television Organisation in response to her live performance of songs "Vyznanie" and "Chcem sa s tebou deliť", accomplished in 1980 in Sopot, Poland.[4][5] Besides, her signature song ("Vyznanie") won the countrywide competition run by Slovak public TV network in 2007 as The Hit of the Century.[81][82]

In a career spanning more or less four decades, Gombitová had sold more than one million

Žbirka, or delivered for Neberte nám princeznú soundtrack.[18][20] Aside from her critical accomplishments, Gombitová has been frequently voted in national annual music poll Zlatý slavík and its subsequent equivalents, Slovenský slávik and Slávik Awards.[85] While eventually winning two editions as Slovenský slávik (1997–1998),[84][86] she topped eight times as the runner-up for the most popular Female Singer in the country; three times at Zlatý slavík (1980, 1982–1983), on five occasions for Slávik (1998, 2000–2002, 2005),[87] despite showing no particular interest in accepting these recognitions.[75] For her other cultural or lifetime achievements, she is also a recipient of the Main Prize by the Culture Ministry of the Czechoslovakia (1986),[88] the Freedom of the City of her birth municipality (2007),[21][89] as well of the town of Stropkov (2013)[90][91] and, among others, The Woman of the Year title (2008)[21][92] and the Hall of Fame OTO Award (2014).[93]

See also

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