Born in Prague 1952. His father was a composer and a director of a modern theatre. His mother was a writer.

He studied journalism at Charles University.

As a songmaker and pianist he has staged over 4000 performances in clubs and theaters around the Czech and Slovak Republic.

In the past couple of years several his books have been published in this country:

* The Hour of Spirits (Hodina duchů; poems)
* Quick, before I forget it! (Rychle než to zapomenu; memoires)
* Isn't there a suspended coffee anywhere? (Je tu nějaký zavěšený kafe?; collection of magazine feature articles)
* Anything about New York (Cokoli o New Yorku, travelogue)
* Anything about Denmark (Cokoli o Dánsku; his impressions of Denmark and reflexions on the ties between the Danes and the Czechs)
* travelogues from the way to Iceland, to Chile, to Portugal etc.

He has also made albums of his songs that are based on poetic lyrics and untraditional music:

PoetryPoesie (Bonton 1994)
The Hour of Spirits / Hodina duchů (Bonton 1996)
Black from Heaven /Černý z nebe (Primus 1991, Indies 1997)
I Just Sing /Jenom zpívám (Indies, 1997)
Tired Warrior /Unavený válečník (Indies, 2000) lyrics by Benny Andersen/cz-František Fröhlich
Mirror/Zrcadlo (Indies, 2002)
Twelve Kinds Of Loneliness (And One Gentle Song Above) (Indies MG rec., 2010) etc.

Jan Burian na youtube.com

www.osamelipisnickari.cz

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Many years he has worked for the Czech TV and made more then hundred programmes.www.ceskatelevize.cz/bdz