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Pat Benatar
Age: 56
Height: 5' 0"
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Born: Jan. 10th, 1953
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BIOGRAPHY: Patricia Andrzejewski was born in Brooklyn and raised in suburban Lindenhurst, Long Island. Her mother Millie had sacrificed her own career as an opera singer to bring up Pat and son Andrew. Years later it was Pat who singing classical, honing the powers of her 4.5-octave voice as a member of Lindenhurst High's musical-theater department. Having been accepted at Juilliard, Pat shocked friends and family by marrying her high-school sweetheart Dennis T. Benatar, a soldier, and moving off to Virginia where he had been stationed. Before too long, the tedium of life as a housewife/bank teller proved too much for Pat, and she joined Coxon's Army, a cabaret band on the Richmond club circuit. Coxon's Army rose to new heights of fame, and Pat was instilled with the confidence to move to New York City and pursue her own dream, which brought her to Manhattan's "Catch A Rising Star". Having thrilled the audience with her first performance on amateur night, Pat soon found herself with a paying gig, a manager and a recording contract, but her image was still in limbo. Primarily singing torch song and Judy Garland (I) classics, she longed to perform hard-rocking tunes in the Led Zeppelin vein. Her wishes were fulfilled when her handlers introduced her to Cleveland guitar-man Neil Giraldo, whose aggressive playing unleashed Pat's inner rocker. She had found her muse, and when her audience roared one Halloween night over a sultry costume she wore on stage, she had found her image.
TRIVIA:
- Her ground-breaking music-video "Love is a Battlefield" (directed by 'Bob Giraldi' (qv) and choreographed by 'Michael Peters (I)' (qv)) was the first ever music video to integrate spoken dialogue into recorded music.
- Married 'Neil Giraldo' (qv) in Maui, February 1982. Daughter Hana is named for one of the nearby cities on the Island of Maui.
- Appeared with husband 'Neil Giraldo' (qv) on the April 24, 2002, episode of _"That '80s Show" (2002)_ (qv).
- Was discovered during an amateur-night contest at the famed NYC comedy-club Catch-A-Rising-Star, and signed shortly-after to Chrysalis Records (1977) by founder 'Terry Ellis(II)'
- Has two daughters: Haley Egeana (16 February 1985) and Hana Juliana (12 March 1994).
- Sang opera before going into Rock music.
- Graduated Lindenhurst High School, Long Island, New York in 1971.
- Daughter, Haley Giraldo, was a Miss Golden Globe presenter at _The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2002) (TV)_ (qv) ceremony.
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