His father Yurii Pavlovych (died 30 August 2015), a radiologist, came from Hiltsi [uk], a village in the Poltava region of Ukraine.

In 1972, the Skrypka family moved to the Murmansk region of Russia, due to Hanna not liking the Tajik climate.

In 1987, he graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, founding the rock group Vopli Vidopliassova (VV) that same year with Yurii Zdorenko and Oleksandr Pipa of the heavy metal band SOS and mutual friend Serhii Sakhno.

In 2000, VV performed in Riga, London, gave a concert in the Moscow Palace of Youth, after that – a tour around the cities of Siberia.

In April 2017, Skrypka was recorded stating that people who don't speak Ukrainian have "low IQs" and should be sent to "ghettoes".

[2] On the 22nd of that month, Skrypka was called by Russian prankster Vladimir Kuznetsov, of Vovan and Lexus fame, who introduced himself as Arsen Avakov, the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs.

During the conversation with "Avakov", Skrypka was questioned about his comments, and also accused the newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda of taking his words out of context.

In September 2023, 20 months after Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, Skrypka expressed his "private opinion" that Ukrainian artists like Vera Brezhneva and Svetlana Loboda had committed a "cultural crime" by continuing their careers in Russia after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014.