KAREL PLÍHAL
POETIC PEOPLE SINGER
A STABLE GIANT OF THE CZECH SONGWRITERS’ SCENE
He has been on the Czech scene for more than forty years, but he has always stood apart from mainstream pop and media-influenced background. “I am a sixty-five years old man and I am a songwriter. “At his concerts, the audience loves his poetic, playful, love and self-ironic rhymes and people sing with him, because of his lyrical timeless texts.
Currently, he performs with his “right hand“– the guitarist Petr Fiala. His health condition stopped him a bit. “First we performed the way that Petr played and I was focused on the lyrics and singing. Later on, I found out that there was a mandola idling at home. I started to play and realized that the sound was so beautiful that I fell in love with it. I forgot all about being a guitarist, I try to discover new ways of playing the mandola and I enjoy it.
