Acquaintance, friendship and love with a popular Croatian rock'n'roll singer and composer, Karlo Metikos, completely rounds off both her life and her musical direction. Karlo's experience and strong personality as an author shaped Josipa Lisac as a unique artist and a woman.

Their first joint LP album from 1973, "Dnevnik jedne ljubavi" ("Diary of one love"), remains until today one of the best conceptual rock achievements: an anthology of the Croatian discography.

Together they made around 13 LP albums and CDs, in all of which Karlo Metikos acted as an author and a producer. Some of them are: "Hir, hir, hir" ("Caprice, caprice, caprice"), "Lisica" ("Fox"), "Hocu samo tebe" ("I want you only")... Some of the hit songs that live on are: "O jednoj mladosti" ("About one youth"), "Magla" ("The fog"), "Hir, hir, hir" ("Caprice, caprice, caprice"), "Danas sam luda" ("Today I'm crazy"), "Dok razmisljam o nama" ("While I'm thinking about us"), "Na, na, na", "Ja bolujem" ("I am love-sick")...

Josipa Lisac soon proved her multiple talents with an acclaimed and demanding performance as the girl Jana in the first Croatian rock opera "Gubec-beg, by Ivica Krajac, Karlo Metikos and Miljenko Prohaska, which had its premiere in 1975. The most renown and the most performed aria from this rock opera became "Ave Maria", which has remained an obligatory part of her concert repertoire until today.

During 1976 she made a jazz album with some of the world's greatest musicians of that genre (Ernie Wilkins, Clark Terry, Johnny Basso...), called "Josipa Lisac & B.P. Convention big band international", produced by Bosko Petrovic and Karlo Metikos. Soon afterwards she leaves with Karlo to the USA for three years, where she makes recordings and collaborates with some of the top American musicians (Ira Newborn, Paulinho da Costa, Joel Peskin, etc); the result of which is "Made in USA" album, recorded in 1979, on both English and Croatian language, in the LA's Studio 55 and Sounds good recordings.

Returning to homeland, her career is at its peak; she participates in two American motion pictures, "Lost Hero" with Richard Chamberlain and "Dirty dozen". Afterwards she is invited to many theater plays (in Slovenia, Croatia, etc.), to numerous concert tours and recording sessions. She is a multiple winner of the "Vocal of the year" award, as well as the Croatian discographic award "Porin" and many others.

Of herself she says she abhors the average and so her whole life is devoted to finding the new, original and often shocking solutions, which always and in every occasion makes her attractive, interesting and provocative. Summing up her characteristic in one sentence would be: Josipa Lisac is not like the others...