Name: Petr Muk: “His soul was tormented, but his music had the power to heal”
Uploaded: 2025-02-07T13:13:16+00:00
Channel: Martin Hladík
Description: Petr Muk (born on Feb 4, 1965) was a Czech pop singer and composer who grew up in communist Czechoslovakia but was influenced by Western bands like the English synth-pop duo Erasure, The Cure and Depeche Mode. At the time, recordings of Western music were secretly smuggled into the country by people lucky enough to

Photo: Petr Šmerkl, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Petr Muk (born on Feb 4, 1965) was a Czech pop singer and composer who grew up in communist Czechoslovakia but was influenced by Western bands like the English synth-pop duo Erasure, The Cure and Depeche Mode. At the time, recordings of Western music were secretly smuggled into the country by people lucky enough to be allowed to go abroad.

Muk started making music at the age of fifteen, performing with various underground punk bands.

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