Pat Benatar
Picture a girl who is classically trained in her youth who is never been rightly exposed to rock and then is expected to sing in that style expertly ASAP at 22. That girl is Pat Benatar, born in January 10, 1953 in in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City.
Pat quit college and married her highschool sweetheart, Dennis Benatar. They moved to Richmond, Virginia where she worked as a bankteller. Music called her, again, and finally responded after seeing Liza Minnelli in concert. She quit her day job and began singing at clubs around Richmond. The couple moved back to New York in the mid-70s where she met musicians she could sing for, but had to learn how to sing rock in order to fit in the energetic club scene. Her natural talent, though, made it easy for her to adopt a more raw vocal style.
Her performance in the spring of ’78 had impressed representatives from several record companies. She was signed to Chrysalis Records and recorded her first album, In the Heat of the Night, in June and July 1979. She and Dennis divorced in that same year.
Her second LP, Crimes of Passion, and the songs "Fire and Ice", "Shadows of the Night", and "Love Is a Battlefield" won her four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female Rock Performance from 1980 to 1983. She was one of the few pioneering artists when MTV just started. Eight times she was nominated for Best Female Rock Performance of the ten Grammy Award ceremonies in the 1980s. She married guitarist and producer Neil Giraldo on 20 February 1982.
Pat Benatar was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in October 30, 2008.
In June 2010, Benatar's memoir, Between a Heart and a Rock Place tells about her battles with her record company, and the toll her career took in her personal life. With 12 studio albums, songs in movie soundtracks too many to mention, and multiple awards, Pat Benatar came back triumphant in the battlefield called love.
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