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Gyula Vikidál
8+ albums
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Gyula Vikidál (b. 1948) is a Hungarian singer. Born on the 25th January 1948, he started his career early as a rock vocalist in groups such as Iris, Pannonia, Gezarol, Pop, Rekorder, and Gemler. It was only when he joined the heavy-rock band P Mobil - originally an underground band, but soon gaining a broad fan base - that he started gaining his eventual fame as a singer. From 1979 to 1981 he was a member of the Hungarian super group Dinamit. After that some of his former coleagues in P Mobil, the late musicians Istvan Cserháti (d. 2004) and Sándor Bencsik (d. 1987) tempted him into P Box, of which he was a member from 1983 to 1986. In 1983 he had his final breakthrough with the important dual role as the rebel-leader and pagan Koppány in the rock musical by István A Király, King Stephen. This role became a kind of symbol for Hungarian resistance against imperialist powers such as the Ottoman empire and the Soviet Union. During the 1980s to 1990s, and to some extent the 2000s, he has been a rock opera singer and even an opera singer, with leading parts in Jesus Christ Superstar, Attila, and Anna Karenina and dozens of other plays. He still sings rock, but in smaller contexts, in H.M.V and Boxer. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.