Vlasta Průchová (12 July 1926, Ružomberok – 16 June 2006, Prague) was a Czech jazz singer.

At the Filmové žně (Film Harvest Festival) in Zlín she attended the performance of the "ensemble of swing stars" Elit Club.

From her youth, she showed a musical talent in singing and Jan Hammer Sr. finally persuaded her to join the band.

Pygmalion was closed in 1949 and following that Průchová sang in the legendary Prague dance-hall Lucerna Palace.

At the same time she also collaborated with significant Czech jazz instrumentalists Luděk Hulan, Ferdinand Havlík and others.

On one of these occasions, in 1965, she invited the American jazz singer and trumpeter Louis Armstrong for dinner, and they jammed together.

[5] In 1968, during the dramatic events of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the whole family moved to the United States.

[7] In her later years Průchová rarely changed her repertoire, she is considered an exponent of the "classical jazz singing".

In 2001, she appeared in the documentary Milý společník aneb Blues pro Luďka Hulana (lit.