Background
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.
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.
She is closely associated with the city of Lviv. 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". Along her singing career, Karpa also is an anchor lady for few television-programs such as "Ekstremalnyi weekend" (National Tax Association, USA) and "Vidkryi sebe" (Television and Radio company "Lyuks").
Together with her producer Yaroslav Stepanyk she found her own producing center "KARPARATION" (until 2001 "Nika").