Natalka Karpa

Natalka Karpa (Ukrainian: Наталка Карпа; 14 August 1981), born Nataliya Semenivna Karpa (Ukrainian: Наталія Семенівна Карпа) is a Ukrainian singer, TV-host, and the "Distinguished Artist of Ukraine" (2009). She is closely associated with the city of Lviv.

Natalka Karpa
Background information
Birth nameNataliya Semenivna Karpa
Born (1981-08-14) 14 August 1981
OriginDobromyl, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
GenresPop, House
Occupation(s)singer, TV-host
Instrument(s)voice
Years active1999–present
LabelsKARPARATION
Websitehttp://natalkakarpa.tilda.ws/ international eng

Biography

Was born in the small city of Dobromyl in Ukraine, near the Polish border. She was born into a musical family; her grandmother once sang in a choir, while father was a professional musician. When Karpa was five her parents bought her a piano and later she enrolled in 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.

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").

Natalka Karpa also founded a line of cosmetics and released her own perfumes.[2]

Albums

History – 2007
  • 2007 Moon Records Ukraine/Lavina Music

The Best of – 2013
  • 2013 Moon Records Ukraine

Ukrainian Christmas Carols – 2014
  • 2014 Moon Records Ukraine

See also

References
  1. "a kalyna ne verba-live(Natalka Karpa)" – via www.youtube.com.
  2. "Запальна Наталка Карпа: чим живе відома львівська співачка? Львів". lvivyanka.info (in Ukrainian). 23 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
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