Music writer since 1968 and radio presenter since 1980’s. Runs his weekly show Borderline Music on the Czech National Radio and contributes to the leading Czech papers. He was one of the founding members and producers of the Bonton record company (now owned by Sony Music) and has written books on alternative, contemporary, and world music. Since 1992 he is a member of the World Music Charts Europe panel. In recent years, he has also written for music magazines in Italy, Germany, France and UK, and contributed for the Global Village programme in Canada. Since 2002 he lectures on world music at the Charles University in Prague, in 2003-5 he served as a jury member of the Sayan Ring festival in Siberia, and in 2007 as one of the Womex 7 Samurai. www.doruzka.com is a bilingual website focused on world music
Czech Republic