Bild newspaper, Karel Gott
Czech singer Karel Gott currently can not imagine that he would sing again. He said it in an interview published in the most widely read German newspaper Bild (pictured) on December 2, 2015. Gott was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes, but he said that he has a ninety percent chance of survival. Gott, 76, will now undergo another series of chemotherapy sessions.Gott underwent the first series of chemotherapy in November, when he spent three weeks in a hospital. Then he was recovering in home care.Despite doctors' recommendations, Gott attended the award-giving ceremony in the State Opera in Prague on December 28 to receive personally his 40th Czech Nightingale.The disease was uncovered during urgent abdominal surgery in early November and doctors immediately started targeted oncological treatment.Gott, who has stayed at the top of Czech pop music for half a century and also has a number of fans abroad, mainly in Germany (die goldene Stimme aus Prag), is the winner of 40 Golden or Czech Nightingale top pop singer prizes awarded in Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic.Former Czech president Vaclav Klaus decorated Gott with a state award for contribution to Czech culture in 2009.Gott has two adult daughters by his former girl-friends. In January 2008 he married Ivana Machackova in Las Vegas. They have two daughters, born in 2006 and 2008. (CTK Photo/Jakub Strihavka) ***FILE PHOTO*** Most popular Czech pop singer Karel Gott died at 80 on Tuesday, October 1, 2019, before midnight at home in his family circle, in Prague, Czech Republic, his spokeswoman Stolzova said on October 2, 2019.
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