Karel Kryl (April 12, 1944 – March 3, 1994) was a popular Czech songwriter and performer of many protest songs in which he strongly criticized and identified the shortcomings and inhumanity of the Communist regime in his home country. Biography , Czech Republic]]Kryl was born on April 12, 1944, in Krom??í?, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), son of Karel Kryl and Marie Krylová. His father owned a printing business, which was confiscated from the family in 1948 after the communist takeover. Kryl moved to Prague in 1968 as an assistant at Czechoslovak Television. In his spare time he performed his songs in numerous small clubs. When the Warsaw Pact armies occupied Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, to suppress the Prague Spring reform movement, Kryl released his album Brat?í?ku zavírej vrátka (Close the Gate, Little Brother), full of songs describing his disgust over the occupation, his views on life under c

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