The communists banned our band. We renamed ourselves and kept playing
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Marka Míková was born Marie Horáková on December 28, 1959 in České Budějovice. Her father Milan Horák was a lawyer, her mother Marie a teacher. The family soon moved to Prague and Marka Míková grew up in Karlín. She was brought up in the faith, and the family attended the local Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius. Her father Milan Horák was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia because of his work, but after 1968 he was expelled at his own request. Marka Míková has been involved in music and acting since childhood, starring in Kachyň‘s Robinson and Vorlíček‘s fairytale How Princesses Wake Up. She did not get into acting at DAMU, but later studied directing and dramaturgy at the puppetry faculty. From the 1980s she was active in punk bands, first Plyn, then Dybbuk and finally Zuby nehty, which is still active today. She married in 1982 and had four children with her husband Tomáš Mika. In 1989 she joined the Decade of Spiritual Renewal initiative and on the occasion of the canonization of Agnes of Bohemia she performed in the Vatican in St. Peter‘s Square. After the revolution, she continued to work in music, directing and acting, published several books and founded the Puppets in the Hospital initiative. In 2025 she was living in Prague.
