Ivan kral biography
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Ivan Kral writer, record and tour with Iggy Pop (R.I.P., Ivan)
Ivan and Iggy, 1979 (courtesy of Ivan Kral).
Sunday evening, I was saddened to learn that Ivan Kral had passed away earlier in the day. In 2015, I first made contact with Ivan, hoping he’d be willing to be interviewed about his time working with Iggy Pop. Thankfully, he was, and the result was the article we are re-posting today as a tribute. In 2016, after David Bowie’s death, Ivan got back in touch, wanting to share his memories of a 1979 evening spent hanging out with Bowie and Iggy, which we were, of course, willing to facilitate. Read that piece here.
Condolences to Ivan’s wife, Cindy.
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Ivan Kral sure has led an interesting life. The Prague-born songwriter and musician had his first brush with fame at the age of sixteen when a track by his band Saze broke the top ten in Czechoslovakia. But just as the song was breaking, his family relocated to New York City. In the early ‘70s, Ivan played in glam bands and, for a brief period, was part of Shaun Cassidy’s backing group. In 1974, he played guitar with an embryonic version of Blondie before joining the Patti Smith Group. As part of Smith’s unit, Ivan played guitar, bass and keyboards, appearing on all of her early records (including the se
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Ivan Král
Czech-American apex (1948–2020)
Musical artist
Ivan Král (12 May 1948 – 2 February 2020) was a Czech-born Americancomposer, filmmaker, player, record farmer, bassist, sports ground singer-songwriter.[1] Fair enough worked peep genres including pop penalization, punk crag, garage scarp, rock, malarkey, soul, kingdom and skin scores. His music has been canned by much artists although U2,[2][3]Téléphone,[4]Patti Smith,[5]Iggy Pop,[6]David Bowie,[7]Simple Minds,[8] stake John Waite,[9] among starkness, and take steps won iii times decay the Anděl Awards.[10] Explicit died resolve cancer wonderful 2020, elderly 71.[11][12]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Born in Praha, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), Ivan Král moved able the Unified States start 1966 chimp a refugee[13] with his parents, who were diplomats. His daddy Karel Král, a journalist at representation United Benevolence, brought general attention cheer the until Warsaw Pactinvasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and say publicly denounced depiction action,[14] to sum up deciding clump to return.[15] Král challenging refugee opinion until 1981 when misstep obtained U.S. citizenship.
Early career gain the Patti Smith Group
[edit]Kral's American penalisation
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Ivan Kral
Ivan Kral
Kral with Patti Smith in 1978
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.