Roman Vícha is a drummer. He was born in 1979 in Ostrava into a family of musicians; his father and both grandfathers were drummers. He has played the drums since the age of thirteen, first under his father’s guidance and at the music school in Opava, then at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava. In 1999 he moved to Prague, where he graduated from the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and then its jazz-oriented college. He has played in the band Muff for more than twenty years, was Ewa Farna’s drummer for eight years and plays in the band Toxique with his wife, the singer Klára Vytisková. He has worked with Lenka Dusilová, Jana Kirschner, Richard Müller, Ivan Král and Karel Gott. He teaches drums at the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory. For Amplión Records he recorded the album Balance (2007) with the Zuzana Dumková Band. More at romanvicha.com.
