Current Affairs Feud between folk singers Nohavica and Hutka deepens

19-11-2007 15:23 | Rosie Johnston

Robbie Williams vs. Liam Gallagher, Britney Spears vs. Christina Aguilera; high-profile fall-outs are pretty common in the world of pop music. But perhaps less so on the folk music scene. But the bust-up between Czech folk singers Jaromir Nohavica and Jaroslav Hutka has just become even bigger. Last week, Mr Hutka, who lived for ten years in exile in the Netherlands, having been forced out of communist Czechoslovakia in 1978, laid into fellow singer-songwriter Jaromir Nohavica for his collaboration with the secret police at the end of the 1980s. Over the weekend, Mr Nohavica hit back, saying that he was forced into it, and that his secret police file had been doctored. Rosie Johnston has more:

Jaromir Nohavica Jaromir Nohavica   Back

Featured

Related articles

More

Section Archive

More

Latest programme in English