Peter Nagy was born on 9 April 1959 in Prešov and is one of the most successful singers of Slovak popular music of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. After graduating from the Gymnasium of Ján Adam Rayman in Prešov, he graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Performing Arts in Košice. 

The first successful song with which Peter Nagy came to the public's attention was the song „Professor Indigo“. He recorded it in August 1982 in the studio of Košice Radio together with guitarist Karl Witz, who later collaborated with the bands Modus and Collegium musicum. The composition was released a year later. In 1982-1983 Nagy completed military basic service as a vocalist in the Military Art Ensemble in Bratislava, where he founded his first professional music group called Indigo. During this period he was offered to sing with the group Modus. 

After the release of their third album Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Peter Nagy received the Golden Crest of Opus from the then director of the Opus label Ivan Stanislav for selling the millionth record. Among the most successful songs of this album was the song „Love is here with you“, which won three times in the Triangel TV hit parade. In 1987, at the time of its fourth anniversary, Peter Nagy and his band Indigo had performed over 500 concerts, two of which were played in front of a sold-out Prague's Lucerna.

Since the second half of the 1980s, Peter Nagy has also been involved in unique children's album projects aimed at discovering young singing talents. The first of a series of these albums was the title Peter, Vašo and Beáta for Children, which he prepared with Beata Dubasová and Vasa Patejdl. In the first half of the 1990s, Peter Nagy hosted the youth show Fany on Slovak Television.

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Katarína Koščová, pop and jazz singer, native of Prešov. She studied philosophy and aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov. 

In 2005 she became the winner of the first series of Slovakia Searches for SuperStar. With her band, which includes Michal Brandys (acoustic guitar, violin), Daniel Špiner (keyboards), Viliam Cicoň (bass guitar) and Miroslav Szirmai (percussion), she performs in clubs and at literary events, and her collaboration with the band Neřež has also become successful. 

He has several solo albums to his credit, such as We don't know each other yet (2005), Naboso (2006), Unshakeable (2009), Christmas Eve (2012), Windowed (2014). Also with Veronika Husovská and Martin Husovský she published CD Lullabies (2009). 

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Katarína Knechtová is a Slovak singer, composer, lyricist, as well as pianist, guitarist and drummer. She comes from Prešov, graduated from the Gymnasium of Jan Adam Rayman and also graduated from the Folk Art School in piano and sang in the ensemble Prešovchčatá .

At the age of fifteen she started her musical career in the band IMT Smile. The then seventeen-year-old Ivan Tásler, the leader of the band, was interested in her during her studies at the Prešov gymnasium and offered her a position as a vocalist. Soon after, the group set off on a major Czechoslovak tour as the support act for the legendary Olympik .

In 1997 he founded a new band Peha with drummer Martin Migas and guitarist Karel Sivak. The success is immediate and the song „Remote Control“ becomes the most played song in Slovakia. Aurel for 2005 became a triumph for Peha, where they won four awards: best singer, best group, best song „Za tebou“ and best album.

Knechtová left Peha in 2008 and embarked on a solo career. For the film BATHORY by Juraj Jakubisko, she composed the song „Muoj Bože“ , inspired by medieval psalms and partly in Old Slavonic, in 2007. Jakubisko directed a music video for the song with Katarina. The song was extremely popular, winning Slovak music charts and winning the prestigious Aurel award for the best song of the year. Despite this, it was not included in the final film.

In addition to concerts in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Katarína has also composed film music, for example for the film ISABEL and the student film ZEM JE GUĽATÁ (THE EARTH IS GULATÁ). Her dream project was to found a girl group The Cubes, but she did not sing in it. In her own words, she founded it so that she could play drums in it. The group released an album and a music video of the same name „Tomorrow“ in 2012. The Cubes supported the band Garbage and Knechtova herself supported the Cranberries and Depeche Mode at concerts in Bratislava and Prague. .

Katarína has received numerous awards, such as the Aurel and OTO awards for the best singer of the year, or the Silver Nightingales. Apart from her music, she also likes to experiment with her appearance and often surprises especially with the colour and length of her hair. Although her latest album has an English version, she prefers Slovak in her work, is involved in projects to promote Slovak products and still lives in her native Prešov.

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Ivan Tásler was born on 16 July 1979 in Prešov, where he attended the People's School of Arts for ten years. From 1993 to 1997 he graduated from the Jan Adam Rayman Gymnasium in Prešov and continued his studies at the Orthodox Faculty of the University of Prešov, where he completed two semesters of theology.

His father Miroslav Tásler Sr. is a musician who has performed in the Beatmakers, Roams, Nálada and other bands, while his brother Miro is also a musician. And so in Ivan, musical talent won out over a career as a priest, and after the formation of IMT Smile, the group of two brothers was followed by other big names such as Katka Knechtová, Marián Čekovský, Oskar Rózsa, Marcel Buntaj and Martin Valihora, among others.

In 2019, IMT Smile was awarded the Crystal Wing in the category of popular music, as they have already released almost twenty LP records in over thirty years of existence, along with five concert albums and several compilations and collaborations with other musicians, such as Richard Müller and Czech legend Janek Ledecky. Ivan Tásler has received numerous awards for his work, both from SOZA, Aurel and several Nightingale awards.

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