Natalka Karpa
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Birth name | Nataliya Semenivna Karpa |
Born | August 14, 1981 |
Origin | Dobromyl, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
Genres | Pop, Pop rock |
Occupation(s) | singer, anchor lady |
Instruments | voice |
Years active | 1999-present |
Labels | KARPARATION |
Website | Official website (Ukrainian) |
Natalka Karpa (Ukrainian: Наталка Карпа; 14 August 1981), born Nataliya Semenivna Karpa (Ukrainian: Наталія Семенівна Карпа) is a Ukrainian singer, anchor lady, and the "Distinguished Artist of Ukraine" (2009). She is closely associated with the city of Lviv.
Biography
Karpa was born in a small city of Dobromyl near the Polish-Soviet border. She was born in a musical family where her grandmother once sang in a choir, while father was a professional musician. When Karpa was five parents bought her a piano and later she enrolled into a music school.
She started to sing in a public choir "Pysanka" and later became a solo singer for the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Halytska perlyna" (Halych Perl) headed by Lesya Salistra.
Karpa finished her school with a gold medal and has two higher education diplomas: Lviv Medical University (former medical campus of Lviv University) and the English Philology of Lviv Polytechnic. During her studies in universities Karpa was a solo singer for a medical jazz band "Medicus".
She participated in numerous Ukrainian festivals. Her first the most successful hit was a song "Kalyna - ne verba".[1]
Along her singing career, Karpa also is an anchor lady for few TV-programs such as "Ekstremalnyi weekend" (NTA) and "Vidkryi sebe" (Television and Radio company "Lyuks"). Together with her producer Yaroslav Stepanyk she found her own producing center "KARPARATION" (until 2001 "Nika").
Albums
History - 2007
₡ 2007 Moon Records Ukraine/Lavina Music
References
External links
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