Pat Benatar

Pat Benatar, Patricia Mae Andrzejewski actually ( born January 10, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York ) is an American rock singer Polish- Irish descent.

Career

Pat Benatar was born in Brooklyn but grew up in Lindhurst on in upstate New York. Initially she studied as her mother was an opera. In 1971, she married Dennis T. Benatar. The marriage lasted only a few years.

In 1977, she was discovered at an amateur singing contest in a New York club. She signed a recording contract with Chrysalis Records, which was offered to her by the manager Terry Ellis. This they did in 1979 along with Neil Giraldo, who beside her as the leading member of the " Pat Benatar Band" was. In the fall of 1979 released their album In the Heat of the Night, which reached platinum status in the United States and until 1984, five more albums followed, where it was also demonstrated.

At the time, Pat Benatar rose before Cyndi Lauper and Madonna on a female superstar in the United States. The music video for the single You Better Run was the second music video, which was played on MTV. At the height of her career came in the fall of 1983, the album Live from Earth on the market, which with Love Is a Battlefield contained their first international smash hit, which in late summer 1984, the single We Belong from the album Tropico followed. Pat Benatar won from 1981 to 1984 four Grammy Awards for best female rock singer ( " Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female" ), 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989 she was nominated again.

1982 Pat Benatar Neil Giraldo married, in 1985 their daughter was born. This was followed by three more gold albums and 1993, the second daughter was born.

Pat Benatar to touring today by the United States and brought the album GO released in 2003. She had among other guest appearances in the U.S. series Dharma & Greg ( episode 5.09 ) and Charmed - Magical Witches, in which she played herself and performed in each one of their titles.

Discography

Studio albums

Awards

• American Music Awards 1982: in the category " Favorite Pop / Rock Female Artist "
• 1984: in the category " Favorite Pop / Rock Female Artist "
• 1986 in the category " Favorite Pop / Rock Female Video Artist"

• Grammy 1981 in the category " Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female"
• 1982: in the category " Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female"
• 1983 in the category " Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female"
• 1984: in the category " Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female"

• Long Iceland Music Hall of Fame 2008