Pat Benatar - Singer
Age: 73
Country: United States Occupations:
Singer
Pat Benatar is an American singer and songwriter, born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City. She is acknowledged as a leading female rock vocalist of the '80s and is known for her powerful voice, which has a mezzo-soprano vocal range.
### 🌟 Career and Achievements
* Genre: Her music is categorized as rock, hard rock, pop rock, blues, opera, and New Wave. She emerged in the late 1970s mixing the power chords of arena rock with a blend of tough grit and mainstream pop.
* Awards: She is a four-time Grammy Award winner, winning four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance from 1980 to 1983. She has also won three American Music Awards.
* Sales: She has sold over 36 million albums worldwide and has seven platinum and three gold albums to her credit, along with 19 Top 40 singles in the US.
* Hall of Fame: She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November 2022.
### 🎤 Notable Songs and Albums
Her breakthrough album was the 1979 debut, In the Heat of the Night, which featured the hit single "Heartbreaker." Her second album, Crimes of Passion (1980), was one of her most successful, giving her a first Top 10 hit with "**Hit Me with Your Best Shot**," which is considered her signature song.
Other notable hit singles and tracks include:
* "Love Is a Battlefield" (1983), which was her highest-charting single, reaching No. 5 on the Hot 100.
* "We Belong" (1984)
* "Fire and Ice" (1981)
* "Shadows of the Night" (1982)
* "Invincible" (1985)
* "We Live for Love" (1979)
### 🎸 Personal and Professional Life
* Collaborator: Her lead guitarist, Neil Giraldo (also her producer, arranger, and songwriter), has been her musical partner since the formation of her band and they are married. They began their collaboration shortly after she signed with Chrysalis Records.
* Early Career: Before her major label debut, she quit a job as a bank teller and worked as a singing waitress. Her big break came at an amateur night at the comedy club "Catch a Rising Star" in New York City. The music video for her cover of "You Better Run" was the second music video ever played on MTV in 1981.