Trivia

She is considered a pioneer of Czech rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

She began her career with an audition at the Semafor theater, from which Milos Forman made his directorial debut Konkurs. She was not accepted into the theater with the song Malagena, but the composer Karel Mares (then accompanist) noticed her.

In 1994, she returned to Prague permanently.

Currently, she is the presenter of the Czech radio station Country Radio with the author's program "Sklipek".

In February 1964, sixteen-year-old Yvonne Prenosilová recorded the Czech version of the song I'm Sorry from Brenda Lee. Even in the Czech version, the song became a hit and one of the best-selling Czech singles of the sixties.

Her father was a general and loved to sing black spirituals.

She sang with the group Olympic, and in the 1963-1964 season they performed in Semafor with the band Ondrás podotyká.

In 1968, she signed the Two Thousand Words petition and then emigrated to Germany via Austria and Great Britain to join her parents.

From the autumn of 1965 she was a member of the newly established Apollo theater (Karel Gott, Pavlína Filipovská, Karel Hála and others also worked there).

She graduated in Libni in Prague.

She has a son, Maximilian Philipp (*1979), who lives with his father in Germany.

Shewas able to perform abroad as in: England, Belgium, France, Italy, GDR, and Austria.

In Munich, where she lived for 26 years, she unsuccessfully attempted a career under the name Yvonne Silova. She first worked at British Airways. Here she met her husband, attorney von Schuckmann. In Germany, she later became an editor for Radio Free Europe and worked with Karel Kryl.

In 1965, when guests from English clubs heard her live while visiting a grammar school, they invited her for a three-week stay in London. The visit was managed by John Alcock. Yvonne sang on London radio. She sang 'When My Baby Cries/Come On Home' for the English company PYE, arranged by the most famous English expert Tony Hatch (author of the song Downtown). She also held two successful concerts in clubs, appeared on television. The most valuable performance was in the popular program of British television, Ready, Steady, Go!, together with the Rolling Stones.

She is a Czech singer and presenter.