Stesti - Music

Vladivojna La Chia Is A Vibrantly Distinguished Independent Singer With A Diversified Voice Offering An Impressive Range Of Texts Compositions And Creations. Vladivojna Began Focusing Her Attention On Music At The Age Of Seven When Together With A Friend She Began Recording Their Invented Radio Programs In Which They Would Improvise Their Own Melodies And Invent News Stories. Apart From That 'little' Vladivojna Began Painting And Drawing Fictional Bands Which Continued Well Into Her High School Years. In These Drawings She Invented Hit Parades Designer Costumes Original Musical Instruments And Mainly Repertoires Which She Would Hum To Herself Along Her Way Home From School. Her Parents Had A Strong Influence On Her Life. Vladivojna's Father Owned A Vast Collection Of Rock Music Vinyls From Led Zeppelin To Prazsky Vyber While Her Mother Played In Amateur Theatre And Would Take Her To Practically Every Performance. This Life Within The Creative World Brought Vladivojna At Age Seven To Write Her First Collection Of Poems Named 'O Zviratkach About Animals ' Which She Presented Before Her Entire Class.
Vladivojna Was Also Inspired By Her First Patronages To Rock And Punk Concerts Which She Attended Already As A First Grader At The Cultural Club "Rock Hill" Where For Some Time Her Mother Had Worked. There She Drew Several Portraits Of Estranged Characters And Punks Which Have Long Since Pervaded Her Creations. At The Age Of Eight She Began Attending The Popular School Of Arts Which At The Time Was Not Conducive To Individualism Within The Musical Educational System And Little Vladivojna Was Thus Suspended For Distracting Her Classmates. Already Back Then She Suspected That One Day Music Would Be Her Great Love. At The Age Of Twelve Vladivojna Made Her First Public Appearance At The Majales Rag-Day In Ostrava In The Children's Choir "Vaginka Studenka" Which Belonged To The Legendary Punk Band In Ostrava Named "Burinky II". In Elementary School She Founded A Hip Hop Trio Which Gave Ones Performed In The School Bathroom. Two Years Later She Was Already Singing In A Raw Punk Band "Prvni Vpredu" With Which She Played Several Improvisational Concerts In Clubs Basements And Vernissages. Whrn She Was Sixteen She Released Her First EP "Ruska Zima" 2000 With A Girl Big Pussy Beat Band "Kocicicici". After A Year She Decided To Leave The Band And Began To Sing With A Trio Of Talented Musicians Which Shortly Afrewards Founded The Group Banana.
In February Of 2002 She Met Ales Bajger A Sound Engineer Who After Having Seen Her Concert With Banana For The First Time Decided To Help Her Further Endeavour Into The Music World With A Contract At Universal Music A Production Of Records With Banana. Vladivojna Released Three Extremely Acclaimed Records. The First Being A Live Recording Of The Wild Rock Album Banana 2003 In Which She Sings Mainly In Her Own Language "Vladivojstina" Which Gives Her The Needed Freedom To Express Herself. The Next Was An Accoustically Experimental Unplugged Album Trip 2004 And The Last One CalledJungle Was An Electrorock Album Produced In 2006 In Germany. Vladivojna Starred And Recorded With Other Luminaries Such As Waltari Amit Chatterjee Lenka Dusilová Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer Marilyn Manson Scorpions Laco Deczi A Cellula New York Radim Hladík A Blue Effect Richard Müller Etc. For Several Weeks The Song "La Rezistence" From The First Album Held First Place On The Alternative Hit Parade Of Radio Krakow Which Approximately One Million Listeners Tune Into Every Day. In 2006 "Banana" Was Nominated As A Breakthrough Rock Band On The Musical Station TV Ocko.
From All This However Vladivojna's Favourite Remains To Be Free Improvisation Which Was Clearly Apparent During Concerts With Banana During Breaks And In Between Songs When For Example The Guitarist's String Broke Or While Hosting The Czech And Slovak Tournament With Laco Deczim She Improvised Directly With The Band In The Second Last Song. Meeting With Guitarist And Composer Amit Chatterjee Also Occurred During An Improvisation When Vladivojna Jumped Directly On Stage Took The Microphone And Began To Jig Into His Music. From This Time They Have Co-Worked On Several Songs. Vladivojna Studies Free And Applied Graphics. In 2007 She Graduated From The Institute Of Creative Arts At The University Of Ostrava. She Focuses Mainly On Painting And Drawing But Also Graphics Comics And Conceptual Arts. She Is The Author Of All Propagational Materials And Booklets For Banana. She Has A Slew Of Exhibitions Behind Her. After Finishing Her Studies She Spent Several Months In New York Where She Visited A Number Of Galeries And Founded The Band "Ass And Nose" With Which She Drummed For Several Weeks. For The Last Three Years She Has Been Preparing Her Almost Cult Radio Show Cajovna On CR 3 - Vltava Radio Station.   In Fall Of 2009 She Is Releasing Her Fourth And First Solo Album Tajemství Lotopu Which Has A Very Gentle And Personally Intimate Touch. In The Beginning Of 2011 Was Released Soundtrack Nevinnost And On 17th November Was Released The Second Solo Album Called Bohémy. Translated From Czech To English By Christine Jenna Ruzicka read less