JIRI SEVCIK

Graduated at Pardubice State Conservatory as a conductor and trumpet player. He worked as Pardubice's children choir conductor, musical editor of Radio Panag, and speaker and program director of Radio Life 91,6. He regularly performs as a vocal soloist of Felix Slováček’s Czech national big band, as well as a singer of a few other swing and jazz bands, including his own Pirate Swing band.

In March 2008 he took a part in a Great Britain's „Q Talent“ competition. With his interpretation of swing version of Freddie Mercury‘s song „Crazy Little Thing Called Love“ he won the third best award and also was awarded by jury with the special prize „The Most Entertaining Performance“.

According to that success he was invited to perform as a guest with famous Brian May Band (aka Red Sox) in Bristol, UK. One year later Jiri was honoured by famous american songwriter Richard Currier, who gave him the rights to perform and record (as only european singer) his „New York at Christmas“ - externí odkaz  song, whitch became an official chrismas song of NYC. In 2011 he was chosen to perform (with his band and their own swing arrangements of Queen songs) a leading musical act - externí odkaz  at Freddie Mercury’s birthday party in Montreux, Switzerland. Jiri and his PIRATE SWING Band had a masive success there, Czech - externí odkaz  and international media (incl. CNN - externí odkaz ) were talking about a sensation. Even the Queen band apparently liked Czechs gig, their official website said: „Czech Republics Jiri Sevcik and The Pirate Swing Band performed and people danced like they were at the Moulin Rouge! What a truly amazing show… Marvellous!“. The offers from foreign countries came instanty and european tour started to seem pretty real… but with not a less media attention home in the Czech Republic. Jiri and his band performed on most watched TV programs, from cooking show to national TV breakfast show and starting to get really wide attention…

To date, he performed in Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, France, Croatia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Egypt, United Kingdom and USA.

THE PIRATE SWING BAND

is Jiri Sevcik‘s band project, joining together 13 top musicians, respected soloists (from philharmonic players to rockers) from all around the Czech Republic. The repertoire of the band is not only swing itself, but mostly their-own-kind-brisk-swing musical arrangements of other musical genres hits (Jackson, Madonna, Police, Queen, Bon Jovi, Nirvana, Oasis, etc.), which is actually very rare and unobvious way – no band in Europe follows this kind of „branch“.

The very important element of all their performances is humour, they believe there’s no entertainment without it. The band first took public and media attention through the pirate roof concert, which was broadcast on main evening national TV news. International attention came with their success at Freddie Mercury's birthday party in Montreux, Switzerland, where they played 80 minutes exclusive "Queen-songs-rearranged-to-swing" gig…  and their reputation as a very special and unpredictable swing band precedes them everywhere. Ladies and Gentlemen – The PIRATE SWING band…

High resolution pictures here