Yvonne Přenosilová

Yvonne Přenosilová (2 July 1947 – 11 September 2023) was a Czech singer, actress and radio and television presenter, mainly successful in the 1960s.

[1][2] In 1964, when she was just 16 years old, she had her breakout with "Roň tears", a cover of Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry", which became one of the best-selling Czech singles of the decade.

[1][2] In 1968, Přenosilová signed the Two Thousand Words manifesto, and shortly after the Soviet invasion that ended the Prague Spring she moved with her family to Munich.

[1][2] There, she kept a lower-profile entertainment career, among other things collaborating with Radio Free Europe, while working as a British Airways employee.

[1] She eventually returned to Prague in 1994, and worked as a radio and television presenter and as a musical theatre performer.