2009
TV Barrandov
Helena was one of the stars performing on a big gala arranged by new digital Czech TV channel "TV Barrandov" which started broadcasting on Saturday 11 January 2009. Helena performed her newest song "Love that makes crazy" from the forthcoming new studio album.
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"Mona Lisa" - the musical
Helena plays Caterina de' Gherardini in the musical "Mona Lisa" that had its premiere on 5 March. Even this role confirmed that Helena is absolutely great singer and performer. The Queen of Czech Pop received the biggest applause and most flowers even if her role was not the main one...
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The Mona Lisa photo sessions
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On 4 March Helena attended the premiere with Hana Zagorova.
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The CD
The soundtrack CD from the musical was released in March. Helena sings two songs.
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The photo session with Hana
In the spring 2009 Helena and Hana Zagorova took an extended photo session and gave an inteview to the Czech weekly "Vlasta".
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Spring in Ritka
The "spring" photo sessions were taken in Helena's house in Ritka in April 2009.
courtesy: vondrackova.net
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The Golden Collection
The box with 81 songs on 4 CDs saw its release in May 2009. The box features Helena's greatest hits as well as rare recordings. Each CD has its own title: CD 1 Greatest Hits; CD 2 Unforgettable duets; CD 3 Sladke mameni (the same as the title of Helena's smash hit from 1983 & 2003); CD 4 I will go on.
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Helena and Martin - spring 2009
Photos of Helena and her husband Martin for the Czech magazine "Story" taken in spring 2009.
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Helena on MDR
Helena was one of the three pop stars (with Karel Gott and Jiri Korn) who guided in Prague on Saturday 2 May on the German TV channel MDR. The show "Prager Verführungen" hosted by Kim Fischer and Johann Lafer was broadcasted on prime time between 20.15 and 24.00. Lots of rare videos with Helena singing in German were shown during the evening.
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Photo sessions for "Style"
In June 2009 Helena posed for photo sessions for fashion magazine "Style".
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DVD+CD
The DVD + CD saw its release on 21 September 2009. The DVD contained whole concert from 21 December 2008 at Lucerna in Prague - totally 35 songs performed by Helena and her guests Jitka Zelenkova, Monika Absalonova and Michal David. The concert was absolutely stunning and the team behind the DVD managed to catch the feeling very well. Helena's voice was crystal clear and as usual she made a great performance. The CD features 15 songs taken from the concert - see the tracking list below.
Raffem.com debutes on stage after "Samba"...:-)
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Photo sessions - Greece 2009
At the end of September Helena and the photo team went to the Greece and took an extended photo session on Creta island.
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More Creta sessions
special thanks to Martin Michal
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TV Ocko
Helena was the special guest on Czech TV "Ocko" on 28 October 2009. She was interviewed in the 1-hour-special "Inbox" about her new DVD/CD "Live" as well as the upcoming new studio album.
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Zustavas tu se mnou - new album
The new studio album entitled: "Zustavas tu se mnou" ("You stay here with me") was released on Monday 23 November. The album featured 15 new songs and one bonus track - the song from the musical "Mona Lisa" in which Helena played one of the main parts in 2009 in the Broadway theatre in Prague. The songs on the new album represented lots of musical styles from pop ballads to South American rhythms as well as modern pop and rock. Helena even decided to make a cover on the old hit "No more Tears" performed originally by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer - here together with Bara Basikova. Even an Billy Joel song "She's Always a Woman" got finally its Czech version performed by Helena. She recorded the song for the first time back in 1978 in German language for her album with the songs of Billy Joel in West Germany.
The booklet featureds beautiful photos taken in Greece at the end of October 2009. Totally the album contains 59 minutes and 47 seconds of new music performed by Helena.
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The release party
The release party for the new album took place on 23 November 2009 at the Hybernia Theatre - Prague.
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More promotion
Helena appeared on TV Barrandov at the end of November where she performed one song in the studio, gave an extended interview as well as she presented the new video to the song "You stay here with me" filmed two months earlier on Creta in Greece.
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Live at Lucerna, 19/20 December 2009
Two sold-out concerts at the Lucerna concert hall in Prague confirmed once again that Helena is the biggest pop star in Czech Republic. Even the presence of hundreds of international fans from Germany, Russia, Sweden or Poland confirmed that she is one of the biggest stars in Central Europa as well. One of the Russian fans spent two nights and one whole day on the train from Moscow to Prague only to see Helena on stage. After the show it was time to take the same train back...
The new show performed by the star during the two sold-out nights at the Lucerna Concert Hall in Prague featured Helena at her best with both old hits and brand new songs released about four weeks ago on her new album "You stay here with me". The show had some absolutely stunning surprises as for instance Helena's dance performance of "Sir Duke" with 7 young tapdancers!
The concert started at 7 pm and ended after 11 pm - the giant show lasted 4 hours! Helena was dancing and singing and the audience did not want her to finish... She sang of course her evergreens as her version of ABBA's The Winner Takes It All, Lasku ma ja stunu, Cervena reka...
She was accompanied by a very good band and professional and talented three girls in the choir. Special guests: No Name and Sarka Vankova.
Rehearsals
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The Show
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Special thanks to Ludmila M. |
After the show
Press meeting, after-party and our meeting - Helena and Stefan enjoy each other's company...
Special thanks to: Helena Vondrackova, Martin Michal and the MM Agency in Prague, Lenka D. (www.vondrackova.net) for supporting www.raffem.com
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Christmas with Helena on raffem.com
Special wishes from Helena to her fans on raffem.com with this brand new previously unseen photo.
In Berlin
On 26 January 2010 Helena was guest of honour at the opening of the exhibition of costumes from Czech films for children which are well-known in Germany, Poland and other countries. She performed 3 songs - one of them in German lanugage. Lots of German and international Helena fans came to see their star singing. The fans represented many countries as of course Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Sweden and USA.
Special thanks to: Helena, Martin K. Andre K.
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Topstar
Helena's career was featured in the TV documentary "Top star" broadcasted by Czech TV in February 2010. Helena was interviewed in the show.
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Celebrities without make-up project
At the end of April Helena participated in a charity project "Celebrities without make-up" arranged by Czech magazine "Story". Several well-known top stars - actors and singers - posed for photo sessions without any make-up. High quality photos from the sessions would be later sold and money would be given to various charity projects.
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Michal David
Helena posed together with Michal David in connection with his 50th birthday. David had been a good friend to Helena as well as composer of her smash hit "Dlouha noc".
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Vitebsk
Helena was a member of the international jury on the Song Festival in Vitebsk (Bielorussia) on July 8 - 16. She even appeared on stage on the first night of the festival and performed her hit "Dlouha noc".
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