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Ida Kelarová, née Ida Bittová (10 February, 1956 Bruntál) is a Czech-Roma singer, musician, and choirmaster, sister of singer and actress Iva Bittová.

She is from a bi-racial family - father Koloman Bitto was a well-known Roma musician, originally from southern Slovakia; mother Lidmila, a kindergarten teacher, came from Slovakia. She spent her childhood in Vrbno pod Pradědem, Prešov and Horní Saliba. She studied at the School of Music in Opava and at the Janáček Conservatory in Brno (she studied piano and cello). Between 1975 and 1982, she acted as an actress and singer at the Theater on a String in Brno. In 1982, she moved to Wales with her husband. In 1985 she went to Denmark, where she started to perform and teach Roma songs. Later she worked in Norway and again in Wales. In 1995 she returned to the Czech Republic. She founded the International School for the Human Voice in Bystré in the Czech-Moravian Highlands. He organizes international workshops, multi-ethnic projects, Gypsy Celebration Roma Festival, and establishes choirs in various countries with the repertoire of Roma songs. 

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