Pat Benatar

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Pat Benatar (2010)

Pat Benatar (* 10. January 1953 as Patricia Mae Andrzejewski in Greenpoint , New York City ) is an American rock - singer .

Career

Pat Benatar is of Polish - Irish descent and was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1953 . She grew up in Lindenhurst , New York State . At first she studied opera singing like her mother. In 1971 she married Dennis T. Benatar. The marriage lasted only a few years.

In 1977 she was discovered at an amateur singing competition in a New York club. She signed a recording deal with Chrysalis Records , which was offered to her by CEO Terry Ellis. This brought her together in 1979 with Neil Giraldo , who became a leading member of the Pat Benatar Band alongside her. In the fall of 1979, the album In the Heat of the Night was released , which reached platinum status in the United States and followed by five more, also platinum albums by 1984.

The music video for their single You Better Run was the second video played on MTV . At the height of their career, the album Live from Earth came out in the autumn of 1983 , which contained their first international super hit with Love Is a Battlefield , which was followed in the late summer of 1984 by the single We Belong from the album Tropico . Benatar was awarded four Grammy Awards for best rock singer ("Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female") from 1981 to 1984 ; In 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989 she was nominated again.

Pat Benatar has been married to Neil Giraldo since 1982, and a daughter was born in 1985. Three more gold albums followed, and in 1993 the second daughter was born. Benatar is still touring the United States and released the album Go in 2003. She also had guest appearances in the US series Dharma & Greg (episode 5.09) and Charmed - Magical Witches , in which she played herself and each performed one of her titles.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1979 In the heat of the night - - - UK98 (1 week)
UK 		US12
platinum
platinum

(122 weeks)US
First published: September 1979
Sales: + 1,000,000; placed in UK only 1985
1980 Crimes of Passion - - - - US2
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum

(93 weeks)US

Initial Release: Aug 6, 1980 Sales: + 4,507,500, Grammy (Rock)
1981 Precious Time DE57 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - UK30 (7 weeks)
UK 		US1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(54 weeks)US
First published: July 1981
Sales: +2,207,500
1982 Get nervous - - - UK73 (6 weeks)
UK 		US4th
platinum
platinum

(46 weeks)US
First published: November 1982
Sales: +1,107,500
1983 Live from Earth DE7 (16 weeks)
DE 		- - UK60 (5 weeks)
UK 		US13
platinum
platinum

(34 weeks)US
Live album, first published: October 1983
Sales: + 1,115,000
1984 Tropico DE26 (15 weeks)
DE 		- CH21 (10 weeks)
CH 		UK31
silver
silver

(25 weeks)UK 		US14th
platinum
platinum

(22 weeks)US
First published: November 1984
Sales: + 1,175,000
1985 Seven the Hard Way DE42 (10 weeks)
DE 		- - UK69 (4 weeks)
UK 		US26th
gold
gold

(20 weeks)US
First published: November 1985
Sales: + 500,000
1988 Wide Awake in Dreamland DE47 (6 weeks)
DE 		- - UK11
gold
gold

(14 weeks)UK 		US28
gold
gold

(29 weeks)US
First published: June 1988
Sales: + 600,000
1991 True love - - CH39 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK40 (3 weeks)
UK 		US37 (22 weeks)
US
First published: April 1991
1993 Gravity's Rainbow - - - - US85 (9 weeks)
US
First published: June 1, 1993
1997 Innamorata - - - - US171 (1 week)
US
First published: June 3, 1997
2003 Go - - - - US187 (1 week)
US
First published: August 12, 2003

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

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 Island Music Hall of Fame
    • 2008

literature

  • Stambler, Irwin: The Encyclopedia Of Pop, Rock And Soul . 3rd revised edition, New York City, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989, pp. 46f - ISBN 0-312-02573-4 .

Web links

Commons : Pat Benatar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Benatar, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andrzejewski, Patricia Mae (real name); Patti-B; The Five Foot giant (nicknames)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States