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This week’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to Eva Olmerová, whom many consider to be the greatest Czech jazz singer of all time. Olmerová, whom critics have compared to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, lived life on a rollercoaster of musical acclaim, political persecution, drink, drugs and broken marriages. Let down by all but her talent Eva was happy to sing any genre - jazz, blues, gospel or country – until her ailing health left its mark on her voice as well.

This week’s Sunday music broadcast we present the work of František Ignác Tůma, a Czech composer of the late Baroque era who wrote some of the most inventive music of the period.

In this show over the coming weeks and months you'll be able to hear music from all genres from pop to hip hop to classical music. In today's edition we look back at some of the most popular Czech bands in the 1990s, after the so-called Velvet divorce between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Bands and performers you’ll hear include the rock group Lucie, folksinger Jaromír Nohavica, jazzman Jiří Stivín and more.