A highly successful -- both commercially and critically, his work has sold in huge numbers in his home country of the Czech Republic, and he has won numerous Czech Grammys for Best Male Vocalist -- singer, Dan Bárta was born in 1969, and would become one of his country's key pop/rock (and stage musical) figures following the disintegration of the Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc at the end of the Cold War. His first foray into the world of rock, with the band Alice, lasted three albums in the early '90s, and helped lay the foundation of the new sounds of the new Eastern Europe. A...