Trivia

Was trained to be mechanic.

Has three daughters from three different women: Dominika, Lucie and Charlotte Ella. His youngest child was born in April 2006.

Most successful Czech singer selling over 30 million records (some sources say 100 million) worldwide.

His breakthrough hit was "Mesicni reka", the Czech version of "Moon River" (1962).

Was a Czech recording artist, and an amateur painter, considered the most successful male singer in the former Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.

In 2008, he appeared on Bushido's album Heavy Metal Payback, performing a duet called "Für immer jung", a cover of "Forever Young" by Alphaville.

In October 2015, he was diagnosed with a malignant cancer of the lymph nodes. On 18 March 2016 it was reported that he had recovered from cancer and was in remission.

On 29 September 2000 he played a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual Ceský slavík (Czech Nightingale) national music award 41 times, most recently in 2017.

On 12 September 2019 it was announced that Gott was suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and was receiving treatment in Prague University Hospital. After almost three weeks, on 1 October 2019 he died in his sleep in the company of his family.

He married his last wife, Ivana Machácková, in January 2008 in Las Vegas.

In 2009 he was awarded a Distinguished Merit Medal by the Czech state.

During the 1950s, he occasionally performed as an amateur singer and often participated in competitions.

Over the course of his career he released over 100 albums and 100 compilation albums, and sold an estimated 50-100 million records worldwide, 23 million of them in the German-speaking market, and about 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states (the Czech Republic and Slovakia).

His name is pronounced "Kah-rehl Got".