Yvonne Přenosilová, née von Schuckmann (2 July 1947 Prague - 11 September 2023 Prague) was a Czech singer and presenter. She is considered a pioneer of Czech rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

Her father, Jiří Přenosil, was a soldier who fled Czechoslovakia for England after the start of World War II and fought in the British Army. He was stationed in Palestine, where he met an Austrian woman, Marketa (born in Vienna). They married in Jerusalem and returned to Prague in 1945, where Yvonne was born in 1947. She was an only child.

Due to anti-German sentiment after World War II, her mother pretended to be English and spoke English in public. Czech, English and German were spoken in the family, and her father liked to sing black spirituals. After February 1948, her father was arrested and spent a year in prison. After the Velvet Revolution, he was promoted to retired major general in 1991.

Yvonne graduated from twelve years of school in Libeň, Prague. Until the age of fifteen, she took up ballet. She began her musical career at fifteen with an audition at the Semafor Theatre, from which Miloš Forman made his directorial debut, Audition. With the Mexican song "La Malagueña" she was not accepted into the theatre, but was noticed by the composer Karel Mareš (then an accompanist), who had a flair for interesting voices and discovered Eva Olmerová and Karel Gott, among others, for the theatre. Mareš chose her for the Olympic group, which performed in the 1963-1964 season at Semafor with the Ondráš band. Here, Yvonne appeared on stage for the first time in November 1963.

In February 1964, sixteen-year-old Yvonne Přenosilová recorded a Czech version of the song "I’m Sorry" from Brenda Lee’s repertoire, called "Roň slzy" by lyricist Jiří Štaidl. The recording was not well received by music critics, but the song became a hit and one of the best-selling Czech singles of the 1960s. Yvonne continued to perform at Semafor and sang other Czech covers of foreign hits, as well as domestic song premieres.

In 1965, when guests from English clubs heard her live during a visit to a grammar school, they invited her to London for a three-week stay. She was managed by John Alcock. Yvonne sang on London radio, recorded a gramophone recording of When My Baby Cries/Come On Home for PYE in England, arranged by Tony Hatch (writer of "Downtown"). She also gave two successful club concerts and appeared on television, including ITV’s Ready, Steady, Go!

After returning from London in the autumn of 1965, she moved from Semafor to the newly established Apollo Theatre (where Karel Gott, Pavlína Filipovská, Karel Hála and others also performed). She performed in other European countries, including Belgium, France, Italy, GDR, East Germany and Austria. In the Golden Nightingale of 1964 and 1965 she was ranked 8th and 5th in the category of female singers, and in 1968 she was already fourth in this popularity poll. However, Supraphon did not release a separate album.

In 1968 she signed the petition Two Thousand Words. She then emigrated to Great Britain via Austria and Italy. However, she was unable to successfully exploit her work connections there, so she went to Munich to live with her parents. She lived there for 26 years and initially attempted to pursue a singing career under the name Yvonne Silova. Her label Ariola released three singles, but none were successful. She then made her living as a ground stewardess for British Airways for eight years. Here she met her husband (who was travelling as a passenger), lawyer Andreas von Schuckmann. They were married in 1978. Andreas von Schuckmann had a title of nobility - so she became a Baroness. A year later her son Max von Schuckmann was born. In 1985, she and her husband divorced.

Yvonne began writing music programmes for Free Europe, and then hosted them. She often collaborated with Karel Kryl. Karel Kryl was instrumental in getting her accepted into Free Europe. In 1994, she returned to Prague permanently and worked for Free Europe there as well, later hosting the original programme Sklípek for Country Radio, performing at concerts and in several musicals.

Her son Max von Schuckmann lived with his father Andreas in Munich, Germany, until Max’s father Andreas died in 2004. Yvonne Přenosilová died on 11 September 2023.p She is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague.

A number of her songs became hits, including Roň tezy, Maples, Mne se líbí Bob, Slow and lazy, Moon, Shoes against love, So empty, Winter kingdom, Pippo.

She exploited her vocal similarities to rock and roll singer Brenda Lee, singing her hits That’s All You Gotta Do, My Colouring Book, He’s So Heavenly and My Whole World Is Falling Down.

She also starred in the films Audition (1963), Dita Sax (1967) and The Limping Devil (1968).