Jarmila Šuláková (27 June 1929[1] – 11 February 2017[2]) was a Czech vocalist and occasional actress.
She was a significant exponent of Moravian traditional music, sometimes called the "queen of the folk song".
[3] She was born in Vsetín, Moravian Wallachia, into an artistic family.
[4] In 1950 she began working as a sales assistant in the Supraphon shop in Vsetín,[4] where she remained until her retirement in 1985.
Since 1952, she was a soloist of BROLN (The Orchestra of Traditional Folk Instruments of the Brno Radio), with which she performed in the former Czechoslovakia and abroad (Vietnam, China, Mongolia, the Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Belgium, United Kingdom, Senegal, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, USA,[5] Canada, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Denmark).