People abroad told us after the performance that they admired us - that we live in squalor and yet we can spread so much joy
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Věra Domincová, a long-time solo singer and briefly a dancer in the Hradiště’s ensemble Hradištan, was born on 16 June 1935 as Věra Mayerhöferová. From 1946, when the family changed its name, she lived as Milevská. She grew up in Uherské Hradiště and since her youth she was involved in sports. As a teenager, she attended the XIth All-Sokol Meeting in Prague in 1948, attended the rowing club in Uherské Hradiště and was also a member of Scouts shortly after the war. From an early age she showed musical talent and a flair for artistic presentation. In 1952, she joined Hradistan for the first time and was fully active as a singer until the 1990s. With the ensemble she made countless tours abroad in Europe and Asia. After a failed attempt to emigrate in 1961, she was suspended for several years. Just as she connected her whole life with Moravian-Slovak folklore, she also kept to one profession throughout her life - she ran a dental laboratory in Uherské Hradiště for many decades. Vera Domincova’s voice is recorded on many recordings with Hradistan and other groups. Her solo album Hradištěu, Hradištěu from 1989 was re-released as a CD in 2002. In 1990, she was the subject of a Czechoslovak television documentary, Zpívá Věra Domincová. The witness considers her “anthem” to be the song Okolo Hradiště and names the song Hořela linda, linduška as one of her favourite songs. During her time in Hradistan, the witness won several awards - in 2005 she was honoured by the town of Uherské Hradiště and five years later she became a laureate of the international folklore festival in Strážnice. Her last public appearance was in April 2022, on the occasion of the centenary of the Hradistan’s Primate J. V. Staňek. In 2022 she lived in Uherské Hradiště.
