- Kati Kovács
Kati Kovács is a Hungarian singer and actress.
She became first famous nationally in 1965 when she won the seminal TV talent show “Who Knows What?”. A year later, she achieved some even greater successes with her performance of the song "I Won’t Be Your Play Thing" ("Nem leszek a játékszered") which won the TV Dance Song Festivals in 1966.
In 1968 she played the leading roles in some films, for example " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062931/ The Girl] ".
The psychedelic spiritual "Lord Send Us Rain" ("Add már, uram, az esőt!") won the Hungarian Dance Song Festival and the German Song Contest in 1972.
She worked with the Hungarian rock band
Locomotiv GT on two LP-s (" [http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kov%C3%A1cs_Kati_%C3%A9s_a_Locomotiv_GT Kovács Kati & Locomotiv GT] " and " [http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6zel_a_naphoz Közel a naphoz] ") and a compilation (" [http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roller Rock and Roller] ").In 1975 she won the
Castlebar Song Contest inIreland with the song "It Would Be So Good To See You Again" ("Nálad lenni újra jó lenne").She got "The Star Of The Year" award from the
Music Week magazine in 1975.Besides singing, Kati Kovács also writes lyrics. One of her best known works which she also performed is the lyrics to
Vangelis ’ composition 1492: The Conquest of Paradise.Albums
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* [http://www.muveszetekpalotaja.hu/programreszletes.jsp?id=K_13580&&backUrl=/programok.jsp?]
* [http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kov%C3%A1cs_Kati Hungarian article]
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