Captain Kid. Folk cottage 2008. The whole concert. One of the last performances of Captain Kid, as part of the Folk Summer in August 2008. Jaroslav Velinský (December 18, 1932, Prague – February 19, 2012, Ústí nad Labem) was a tramp, Czech writer - novelist, tramp singer-songwriter and musician, known under the nickname Captain Kid. He came from an artistic family, his mother was actress Lída Rabská-Velinská (1903–1969), his grandfather was theater and film actor Václav Rabský (1876–1951). During his life he changed many jobs. He was a miner, a turner, a night watchman at the zoo and a sports equipment repairman. Later, he worked as an artistic employee of the Liberec Theater of Music, font painter, advertising graphic artist and typographer. In the 1950s, he wrote his first tramp songs, was actively involved in the tramp movement, and in 1967 in Ústí nad Labem together with Ing. With Jiří Šosvald, he founded the Porto music festival, which he actively participated in for many years and won a number of trophies at it - both as an author and as a musician (banjo and swing guitar). He also wrote several dozen tramp songs, many of which became popular. His first profile album, No to se ví, was released in 1983. In 1969, his first book, science fiction Notes from Garth / Leonora, was published. Apart from this genre, he mainly wrote detective novels, but also novels for young people. It is said that the "unwitting detective" Ota Fink, who was the hero of most of his detective stories, was successful thanks to the fact that he based his detective acumen on both deep professional knowledge and knowledge of the small, everyday problems of ordinary Czech people. In this way, his books resembled the novels of Dick Francis. Readers easily identified with Ota Fink because in his stories they moved through familiar places, and professional skills and tricks play as important a role in them as psychology and action. František Jungwirth, an excellent translator of Anglo-American literature, declared: "If our literature has its own Philip Marlow, he is Ota Fink from Jaroslav Velinski's books." He also pioneered a new and interesting path in the Czech art business. In 1999, he founded the "one-man" publishing house Kapitán Kid, which was based on the Kapitán Kid Club of Friends. This club brought together readers of his books and fans of his music. He actively used the club database and close contact with his readers and listeners for optimal planning of his work. This concerned not only the costs of published books and CDs, but also the optimization of the choice of topics and the ratio of musical and literary creations. The result was a highly efficient publishing house that produced original books and music "to order".