Vivienne Patricia Scialfa is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
19 Facts About Patti Scialfa
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Patti Scialfa has been a member of the E Street Band since 1984 and has been married to Bruce Springsteen since 1991.
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In 2014, Patti Scialfa was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band.
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Patti Scialfa grew up in Deal, New Jersey on the Jersey Shore.
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Patti Scialfa was the middle child of Joseph Scialfa and Patricia Scialfa.
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Patti Scialfa's father was of Sicilian ancestry and her mother is from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Patti Scialfa's father was a successful local entrepreneur, who started a television store and became a real estate developer.
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Patti Scialfa graduated from Asbury Park High School in 1971.
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Patti Scialfa began college at the University of Miami's jazz conservatory at the Frost School of Music, later transferring to New York University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in music.
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Patti Scialfa had a brief role in The Stone Pony's house band Cats on a Smooth Surface.
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In 1984, Patti Scialfa joined the E Street Band, three or four days before the opening show of the Born in the USA Tour.
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Patti Scialfa worked with Keith Richards on his first solo album Talk is Cheap.
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Lowell and Tyrell have since worked on various Springsteen-Patti Scialfa recording projects and Tyrell, a violinist, has recorded and toured with Springsteen and the E Street Band.
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Patti Scialfa has recorded three solo albums, 1993's Rumble Doll, 2004's 23rd Street Lullaby and 2007's Play It As It Lays.
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Patti Scialfa's records are a mix of confessional songwriting, impressive vocal range, and traditional country, folk and rock music.
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In 2009 and again in 2011, Patti Scialfa confirmed that she had written most of the songs for her fourth album and was trying to find the time to record it.
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Patti Scialfa first met Bruce Springsteen in the early 1980s at The Stone Pony, an Asbury Park, New Jersey bar where Springsteen and his band regularly played.
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In 1984, Patti Scialfa postponed recording her solo record to join Springsteen's Born in the USA Tour.
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On July 25,1990, Patti Scialfa gave birth to the couple's first child, Evan James Springsteen.