Singer of anthem of Velvet Revolution, Kubišová, releases new album

On Monday, singer Marta Kubišová launched an album at the Melantrich building in Prague, featuring a recording of her last public performance this September at Prague’s Lucerna. She released her last studio album, titled Soul, eight years ago and officially ended her singing career on 1 November 2017. Since then, she has performed only occasionally. Kubišová symbolically launched her concert recording in the very place where, during the November Revolution of 1989, her performance of the song Modlitba pro Martu (later the unofficial anthem of the Velvet Revolution) was heard from the balcony of the Melantrich Palace on Wenceslas Square. Actress Eva Holubová became the album’s godmother. The vinyl album, in a limited symbolic edition of 1,989 copies, will go on sale in December.