Peter Lipa (1943) is the most important personality of the Slovak jazz scene. He created a distinctive vocal performance with an emphasis on lyrics. His music comes from a combination of jazz and blues influenced by  singers like Jimmy Rushing, Ray Charles, Al Jarreau, Joe Cocker or Bobby McFerrin. He was the first singer who applied the slovak language in jazz.  He converts rhythm possibilities of the lyrics into musical expression. In his repertoire we can find blues, swing and jazz standards as well as his own original compositions.  Already in the 80s he ranked among the first five male European jazz singers according to Jazz Forum. In 1976 along with Miloš Paška he started an annual jazz festival – Bratislava Jazz Days. Since then, he also started MC-ing his own regular radio jazz program. After the velvet revolution in 1989, the Slovak Jazz Society was established. Peter Lipa is the president since the beginning. He continues to do these and other activities alongside his singing career.
As a singer he was performing on all continents and he recorded 25 albums in slovak and english. The curiosity of his career is,  that because of the communist censorship, he wasn’t allowed to record an album until he was 40 years old. His most powerful experience in music was a duet with Bobby McFerrin. The maestro invited him on stage at the end of his concert in Bratislava  1986. A long time before it was usual on all of Bobby’s concerts.

Peter Lipa, a native of Presov, since childhood tended to music. At the age of twelve he was taught to play the violin, and later on trumpet, trombone and guitar. He graduated from high school in Presov, then graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering Slovak Technical University in Bratislava and worked as an editor of the Czechoslovak Radio. In the years 1975 – 1976 he studied in journalism at Komensky University in Bratislava. He started to work as a musician in the early 60-ties. He was the lead singer of such bands as: Strings,  Istropilana, Blues Five,  Gustav Offerman Orchestra, Revival Jazz Band, T + R Band and Lipa-Andršt Blues Band. In 1968, the Blues Five was honored as  a discovery of the 2nd Beat Festival in Prague. As a singer  throughout his career, he was seeking and finding a connection with a good pianist. Ladislav Gerhard, Milan Svoboda, Gabriel Jonáš, Emil Viklický, Peter Breiner, Boris Urbánek, Juraj Tatár, Pavol Bodnár and his son Peter Lipa jr. – these are just some of them. In 1978 he started his own band Combo. This project in various forms , but under the name “Peter Lipa Band¨ still works. Parallel to this, Peter works on many short-term and long-term cooperations and projects. Currently, he also sings with the Visegrad Blues Band, EU4 and Traditional club.