Karel Gott (born 14 July 1939, Plzeň), is a Czech recording artist, and an amateur painter. He is considered the most successful male singer in the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, and has been voted the country's best male singer in the annual Český slavík (Czech Nightingale) national music award 41 times, most recently in 2017. 　　He achieved considerable success in the German-speaking countries, where he is known as "the Golden Voice of Prague", winning the Goldene Stimmgabel award three times (1982, 1984, and 1995). 　　Over the course of his career he has released over 100 albums and 100 compilation albums, and has sold an estimated 50–100 million records worldwide, 23 million of them in the German-speaking market, and about 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states (Czech Republic and Slovakia).