Katarína Hasprová (born 10 September 1972 in
Bratislava) is a Slovak singer, best known internationally for representing her country at the
Eurovision Song Contest 1998
The Eurovision Song Contest 1998 was the 43rd edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held on 9 May 1998 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcas ...
with the song "".
Hasprová was born into a musical family. Her mother,
Soňa Valentová
Soňa Valentová (later Hasprová; 3 June 1946 – 10 December 2022) was a Slovak actress. She starred in the 1969/1970 film ''Witchhammer'' under director Otakar Vávra. She was born in Trnava
Trnava (, german: Tyrnau; hu, Nagyszombat, al ...
, was a well-known Slovak actress and singer, and her father, , is a leading theatre and television director. A graduate in music from the
Janáček Academy of Performing Arts, Hasprová devotes all her time to singing and dancing and has performed in a number of classic musicals, including ''
West Side Story
''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Inspired by William Shakespeare's play '' Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid ...
'' and ''
Hair''.
See also
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The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time
The 100 Greatest Slovak Albums of All Time is a list of the best album releases issued by Slovak recording artists. As the first such list presented in Slovakia, it was published by '' Nový čas'' daily on 22 September 2007.
The list is entirely ...
References
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1972 births
Living people
Musicians from Bratislava
20th-century Slovak women singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Slovakia
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1998
Slovak film actresses
Slovak stage actresses
21st-century Slovak women singers
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