Pavlo Zibrov was born on 21 June 1957 in a village of Chervone, Nemyriv Raion (now Haisyn Raion), Vinnytsia Oblast in a family of Russian Nikolai Ivanovich and Ukrainian Hanna Kyrilivna.

After a couple of years at school, Pavlo moved with his family to Kyiv.

He graduated from the Kyiv Lysenko special music boarding school which he started sometime in 1965, while his brother attended a military-music college in Moscow.

Since 1994 Zibrov is a director of his own Pavlo Zibrov Theater of Song[1] and instructor at the department of pop singing of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.

A few years ago he fell in love with Ukrainian journalist Oksana Dumska.