Public funeral service for Waldemar Matuška

A public funeral service for the late Czech singer and actor Waldemar Matuška is to be held on Prague’s Žofín Island on June 18th., the CTK news agency reported on Monday. The popular Czech singer, who was 76, died on Saturday in his home in Miami, Florida. Waldemar Matuška gained popularity in the 1960s and ‘70s recording a number of big hits and starring in several movies including the award-winning 1968 film All My Good Countrymen. He left communist Czechoslovakia for the United States in 1986 and settled in Miami, Florida. He last visited Prague in 2007.