Miroslav Žbirka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Miroslav Žbirka

Slovak pop singer and composer

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1952

Place of Birth: Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia

Profession: composer, singer

Nationality: Slovakia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Miroslav Žbirka (born 21 October 1952) is a Slovak pop music singer and songwriter.
He performs in Slovak, Czech, and English (he has a Slovak father and an English mother). Žbirka was born in Bratislava.
In the late 1970s, Žbirka co-founded two Czechoslovak pop music bands Modus and Limit.
He currently lives and works in Prague. In 1982, he received the annual Zlatý slavík award for the best male singer in Czechoslovakia.
After the separation of Czechoslovakia, he repeated this achievement in the Slovak annual Slávik Awards, coming number one in the annual end of year charts in 2002, 2004 and 2005.He had some performances with Jon Anderson in 2012.
Asteroid 5895 Žbirka, discovered by Czech astronomer Zdenka Vávrová in 1982, was named in his honor.
The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 2019 (M.P.C.
115893).