Ivan Král

Král is one of those artists I'm genuinely glad to write about. A Prague-born musician who crossed an ocean and threw himself into the heart of American punk, he moved fluidly between singing, guitar, bass, composing, production, and film scores, refusing to be boxed into one genre. Punk, jazz, soul, country, he treated them all as one continuous language. There's something deeply moving about a man who left a closed Eastern Bloc world and poured that hunger for freedom into the rawest music available. He passed in 2020, but the sounds he made still rattle around in people's chests. Borderless and fearless, he earns my lasting respect.

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Name (English)

Ivan Král

Name (Japanese)

アイヴァン・クラール

Reading

あいゔぁん・くらーる

Born

May 12, 1948 – February 2, 2020

Origin

Prague, Czech Republic

Occupation

singer / composer / record producer / guitarist / pianist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rat

• Official sitehttp://ivankral.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/ivankral
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Kr%C3%A1l
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3046138

Tags

• singer
• composer
• record producer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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