Pat Benatar was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November 2022.
28 Facts About Pat Benatar
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Pat Benatar's sound began to move towards more atmospheric pop in 1983.
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Pat Benatar released four additional albums between 1991 and 2003.
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Pat Benatar was born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on January 10,1953, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City.
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Pat Benatar's mother, Mildred, was a beautician, and her father, Andrew Andrzejewski, was a sheet-metal worker.
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Pat Benatar's father was of Polish descent and her mother was of German, English, and Irish ancestry.
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Pat Benatar's family moved to North Hamilton Avenue in Lindenhurst, New York, a village in the Long Island town of Babylon.
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Pat Benatar became interested in theater and began voice lessons, singing her first solo at the age of eight, at Daniel Street Elementary School, a song called "It Must Be Spring".
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Pat Benatar trained as a coloratura with plans to attend the Juilliard School, but decided instead to pursue health education at Stony Brook University.
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Pat Benatar worked as a bank teller near Richmond, Virginia.
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Pat Benatar quit her job to pursue a singing career after being inspired by a Liza Minnelli concert she saw in Richmond.
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Pat Benatar had a gig at a Holiday Inn and got a job as a singing waitress at a nightclub named the Roaring Twenties.
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Pat Benatar's last significant gig in Richmond was a two-hour performance at Thomas Jefferson High School.
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Dennis Pat Benatar was discharged from the Army and the couple moved to New York in May 1975 so she could pursue a singing career.
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Pat Benatar performed at an amateur night at the comedy club Catch a Rising Star in New York.
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Pat Benatar entered a Halloween contest at the Cafe Figaro in Greenwich Village dressed as a character from the film Cat-Women of the Moon.
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Pat Benatar headlined New York City's Tramps nightclub over four days in spring 1978, where her performance was heard by representatives from several record companies.
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Pat Benatar was signed to Chrysalis Records by co-founder Terry Ellis the following week.
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In July 1981, Pat Benatar released her third studio album, Precious Time, which became her first album to hit number one on the Billboard 200.
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Pat Benatar hit the US Top 10 with the Grammy-nominated rock single "Invincible", which was written by Holly Knight and Simon Climie, three full months before the album was released.
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In July 1988, Pat Benatar released her seventh studio album, Wide Awake in Dreamland, which generally improved on the success of Seven the Hard Way, such as peaking at number 11 in the UK and Canada, earning her eighth consecutive Platinum certified album in Canada, and number 13 in Australia.
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Pat Benatar has released only one album of new material since 1997's Innamorata, which is 2003's Go.
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In November 2015 Pat Benatar recorded and released a holiday song called "One December Night".
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Pat Benatar was nominated for a second time in 2022.
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On May 4,2022, the Hall of Fame announced Pat Benatar will be included in the 2022 class of inductees.
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Pat Benatar married her high school sweetheart, Dennis Benatar, at the age of 19 in 1972.
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Pat Benatar has been married to her second husband, guitarist Neil Giraldo, since 1982.
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In summer 2011, Pat Benatar announced she was working on a Christmas album and a novel about the second coming of Christ.