Patty Smyth

Patty Smyth ( born June 26, 1957 in New York City ) was in the 1980's singer and front woman of the group Scandal. She left the band in 1984 and then launched a solo career.

Biography

Patty Smyth spent her childhood in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. At fifteen, she had her first appearance in a local music club. In the club her mother she was rehearsing with her first, remaining nameless band until later Patty and the Planets founded. With part-time jobs she held his head above water.

1982 she joined Scandal and the band released the self-titled EP and the album The Warrior (1984).

After the departure of David Lee Roth, she was offered the Sangesposten with Van Halen, but she refused.

1985 married Smyth punk musician Richard Hell, their daughter Ruby was born in the same year. The marriage was short-lived. Even with the release of her first solo album Never Enough, the couple was divorced.

The breakthrough came with her ​​second album, Patty Smyth (1992). Your well- known piece Sometimes Love Just Is not Enough emerged as a duet with Don Henley. The song was nominated in October 1992 for two weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard charts and was in February 1993 for a Grammy Award. The single and album reached gold status in the U.S.. In 1984 and 1989 she had sung on albums of the former Eagles drummer and guitarist in the background.

In 1994, she co-wrote with James Ingram, James Newton Howard and Carole Bayer Sager song Look What Love Has Done for the soundtrack of the movie Junior. This song was nominated for both the Golden Globe and the Oscar, however, went with two awards from empty.

In 1997, she married in Hawaii the tennis player John McEnroe, with whom she has two children together. 1998 Smyth took part in the soundtrack to the film Armageddon.

As part of a specials on VH1 2001 witnessed a reunion of Scandal. Since then, the band plays live sporadically.

Discography

With Scandal

  • Scandal (1982 )
  • Warrior ( 1985)

Solo albums

  • Never Enough (1987 )
  • Patty Smyth (1992 )
  • Greatest Hits - featuring Scandal (1998)
Tribeca Film Festival Extended Play Junior (1994 film) Golden Globe Award Comeback Integrated Authority File
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