About Vašo Patejdl
Vašo Patejdl was a Slovak musician and composer. He was best known for being a co-founder and long-term member of the pop-rock band Elán. He wrote songs for other musicians, including the Richard Müller single "Po schodoch", and he composed music for films, such as Fontána pre Zuzanu (1985) and The Seven Ravens (2015). Patejdl also released a number of solo albums throughout his career, both in Slovak and English. He died on 19 August 2023, at the age of 68. Patejdl co-founded the band Elán in 1968 and contributed to the group's first four albums. Patejdl founded and ran the recording studio Relax in Bratislava, which he made available to other musicians in addition to using it to record his own music. He won second place at the Bratislavská lýra song contest in 1985 and first in 1987.
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