Zuzana Navarová de Tejada, born June 18, 1959, in the Czech Republic, was a singer and composer. She began her career in the early 1980s as a member of Nerez, winning the best singer award at the festival Vokalíza in 1982. In the 1990s, she released her solo album, Caribe, with Caribe Jazz Quintet in 1992 and collaborated extensively with Colombian songwriter and guitarist Iván Gutiérrez and later with the band Koa. Navarová composed music for theatre plays and was awarded the best librettist of 1990 by the Czech Music Foundation in 1991. Navarová passed away on December 7, 2004, at the age of 45, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Czech Academy of Pop Music in 2005.
