1. Patty Pravo debuted in 1966 and remained most successful commercially for the rest of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s.
44 Facts About Patty Pravo
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Patty Pravo scored fourteen top 10 albums and twelve top 10 singles in her native Italy.
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Patty Pravo spent her formative years in Venice where she was acquainted with American poet Ezra Pound and the future Pope John XXIII.
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Patty Pravo started taking piano, dance and solfege classes from a young age, and entered the Benedetto Marcello Music Conservatory straight into the fourth grade when she was ten.
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Patty Pravo made brief appearances in various Italian films, including Camillo Mastrocinque's The Most Beautiful Couple in the World and two pictures by Mariano Laurenti, usually performing the popular song "Qui e la".
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Patty Pravo went on to release two more top 10 hits: "Tripoli 1969" and "Il paradiso", the latter performed at Festivalbar.
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Patty Pravo took part in the Sanremo Music Festival 1970 with the song "La spada nel cuore" performed in duet with Little Tony.
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Patty Pravo then released another album called just Patty Pravo which marked a change of musical direction from beat music towards a more melodic repertoire.
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Patty Pravo found success in France, where she was dubbed "Italian Edith Piaf" for her interpretation of "Non, je ne regrette rien".
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Patty Pravo followed it with a music special Bravo Pravo broadcast on French TV on New Year's Eve 1971.
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Patty Pravo collaborated with the same team of songwriters on her next LP, Mai una signora, released in 1974.
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In spring 1976, Patty Pravo released Tanto, a collaboration with Vangelis, who arranged the songs and played keyboards on the album.
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Some songs from this LP were performed in the controversial Italian TV show Stryx, in which Patty Pravo appeared alongside such singers as Amanda Lear and Grace Jones.
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Patty Pravo posed nude for the September 1980 issue of the Italian edition of Playboy, and for the December 1981 issue of Playmen.
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Patty Pravo's 1984 single "Per una bambola" won the critics' award at the Sanremo Festival and was a top 20 chart success.
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Patty Pravo recorded a series of covers of vintage songs which were broadcast in the popular TV show Premiatissima.
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Patty Pravo's song "Pigramente signora" was a cover of Dan Fogelberg's "To the Morning", yet the singer was accused of plagiarism.
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Patty Pravo released an album titled Pazza idea with new versions of her old material, and in 1988, the LP Pigramente signora, a collection of songs she had recorded in the past few years, including the recent single "Contatto".
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In 1990, Patty Pravo was due to perform the song "Donna con te" at Sanremo, but shortly before the event, she raised reservations towards the lyrics and asked for major changes.
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Patty Pravo's request was rejected and she eventually refused to perform.
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In 1992, Patty Pravo was arrested for possessing hashish, having had a history of cocaine possession.
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Patty Pravo was put in the female prison in Rebibbia, Rome, but was released after only three days.
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Patty Pravo would make history as the first Italian artist to perform in China.
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In 1995, Patty Pravo returned to the Sanremo Festival with the song "I giorni dell'armonia", but it was met with lukewarm reception.
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Patty Pravo celebrated the 30th anniversary of her musical debut in 1996 and embarked on a greatest hits tour.
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Patty Pravo released her first live album Bye Bye Patty via her own label Pensiero Stupendo, and it charted in the top 5.
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On her next studio album, Notti, guai e liberta, Patty Pravo worked with some renowned Italian songwriters, including Ivano Fossati, Franco Battiato and Lucio Dalla.
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Patty Pravo toured extensively in support of the album in 1998 and 1999.
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In 2001, Epic Records released a double live album Patty Pravo Live 99 against the singer's wishes, yet it was a moderate chart success.
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In February 2002, Patty Pravo released the single "L'immenso" which she performed at the Sanremo Festival, only finishing in the 16th place.
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In 2004, Patty Pravo released her next album, Nic-Unic.
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Patty Pravo was unable to continue to perform and the remaining dates were cancelled.
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Around the same time, Patty Pravo published an autobiography Bla, bla, bla.
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Patty Pravo returned to Sanremo only two years later, in 2011, performing "Il vento e le rose".
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In early 2012, Patty Pravo released the single "Com'e bello far l'amore" from Fausto Brizzi's film of the same name, and the song went on to win the "Italian Golden Globe".
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Patty Pravo made a cameo appearance as herself in the 2014 Greek film Xenia, directed by Panos H Koutras, which tells about two brothers who are obsessed with her music.
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In February 2016, Patty Pravo performed the song "Cieli immensi" at the Sanremo Festival, placing 6th and winning her third critics' award.
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Patty Pravo published her second autobiography, La cambio io la vita che.
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In 2019, Patty Pravo participated in the Sanremo Festival contest for the tenth time, this time in duet with Italian singer Briga, performing the song "Un po' come la vita".
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Patty Pravo released her new studio album, Red, simultaneously with the festival through the independent label Dischi dei Sognatori.
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In early 2020, Patty Pravo appeared as a judge on Il cantante mascherato, Italian edition of the TV show Masked Singer.
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From 2022 to 2023, Patty Pravo performed with the Minaccia Bionda Tour.
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Patty Pravo has been married six times, and all relationships ended in divorce, yet on good terms.
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In mid-1970s, Patty Pravo lived in a love triangle with English guitarist Paul Jeffery and American bassist Paul Martinez.