The laughing and crying at the same time, it charges me up
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Alena Brádlová, née Kuželová, was born on February 26, 1944 in Semily and as a baby experienced the bombing at the end of the war. She grew up in the factory founded by her father. Unfortunately, he died when she was a year old and her mother and a partner ran the factory. After the communists took over, the factory was confiscated. From an early age she loved singing and went to choir. She graduated from the Faculty of Education and started teaching at the primary school in Semily. There in 1964 she founded a children’s ensemble, which subsequently became the Jizerka choir, which still performs today. She was not in the communist party and had to face various obstacles during communism. After the fall of communism, the choir began to perform extensively around the world and even visited America and Japan. In 2024 she lived in Semily.
