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American stone singer and songwriter

Pat Benatar
Benatar performing in 2007

Benatar performing in 2007
Background information
Birth name Patricia Mae Andrzejewski
Born (1953-01-10) Jan 10, 1953 (historic period 69)
New York City, U.South.
Genres
  • Rock
  • hard rock
  • pop rock
Occupation(south)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active 1972–nowadays
Labels
  • Chrysalis
  • CMC International
  • Bel Chiasso
Website benatargiraldo.com
Spouse(s)

  • Dennis Benatar

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    (yard. 1972; div. 1979)​

  • Neil Giraldo

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    (yard. 1982)​
Children 2

Musical artist

Patricia Mae Giraldo (née Andrzejewski; born January 10, 1953), known professionally as Pat Benatar, is an American stone vocaliser and songwriter. In the United States, she has had 2 multi-platinum albums, five platinum albums, and 15 Billboard top 40 singles,[one] while in Canada she had viii straight platinum albums, and she has sold over 35 million albums worldwide.[ commendation needed ] She is also a four-time Grammy Award winner. She volition exist inducted into the Rock and Ringlet Hall of Fame in November 2022.

Benatar'southward 1979 debut album, In the Rut of the Night, was her breakthrough in N America, especially in Canada where information technology reached number 3 on the album chart. Ii singles from it were hits: "Heartbreaker" and "We Live for Love", the latter written past her pb guitarist and future husband, Neil Giraldo. Benatar's second anthology, 1980's Crimes of Passion, was her nigh successful work, peaking at number two in Northward America and French republic, being certified 4× and 5× platinum in the U.s.a. and Canada, respectively. Its single "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" reached the top 10 in the US and Canada and is considered to exist her all-time-known vocal. Benatar's 3rd anthology, Precious Time (1981), was another success, topping the Usa Anthology Chart and condign her starting time tiptop ten album in Commonwealth of australia. Its single "Fire and Water ice" charted highly in the United states of america and Canada. Her next release, Get Nervous (1982), sold less well than her previous two albums, but did include the N American striking "Shadows of the Night".

Benatar'southward audio began to movement towards more atmospheric popular in 1983. The unmarried "Love Is a Battlefield" (1983) written by Holly Knight and Mike Chapman was her biggest hit in most countries, reaching number i in the Netherlands, Australia and on the Usa Stone Tracks chart, and number 5 on the US Hot 100. The live album it came from Live from Earth, was her biggest seller in Australia, Federal republic of germany and the netherlands. In 1984, Benatar released Tropico and its pb unmarried "We Belong", which reached the elevation x in several countries, including number 5 on the US Hot 100.

Benatar'southward 1985 album, Seven the Hard Style, sold less well only it yielded two singles harking back to the stone vein: "Invincible", written past Holly Knight and Simon Climie, a top x hit in Northward America, and "Sex equally a Weapon". Her follow-up, Wide Awake in Dreamland (1988), marked a resurgence in sales in Canada and Commonwealth of australia, and was her biggest hitting in the Uk. Its rocker, "All Fired Upwardly", was a significant striking in Canada, Australia and the US. Benatar released four additional albums betwixt 1991 and 2003.

Early life [edit]

Pat Benatar was built-in Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on Jan x, 1953, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City.[2] Her mother, Mildred (née Knapp; 1928–2016), was a beautician, and her father, Andrew ( Andrzej ) Andrzejewski (1926–2009), was a canvass-metal worker.[3] Her father was of Polish descent and her mother was of High german, English, and Irish ancestry.[iv] Her family unit moved to N Hamilton Artery in Lindenhurst, New York, a village in the Long Island town of Babylon.[5]

Benatar became interested in theater and began vocalism lessons, singing her offset solo at the age of eight, at Daniel Street Elementary School, a song chosen "It Must Be Leap".[ citation needed ] At Lindenhurst Senior Loftier School (1967–1970), she participated in musical theatre, playing Queen Guinevere in the school production of Camelot, marching in the homecoming parade, singing at the almanac Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony, and performing a solo of "The Christmas Vocal" on a holiday recording of the Lindenhurst High Schoolhouse Choir in her senior twelvemonth.[ citation needed ]

Benatar trained as a coloratura with plans to attend the Juilliard Schoolhouse, but decided instead to pursue health education at Stony Brook University. At 19, after ane year at Stony Beck, she dropped out to marry her offset hubby, high school sweetheart Dennis Benatar, a U.S. Army draftee who trained at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, then served with the Ground forces Security Bureau at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, earlier being stationed at Fort Lee, Virginia, starting in 1973. Pat Benatar worked as a banking company teller near Richmond, Virginia.[vi] [7]

Career [edit]

Career beginnings [edit]

Benatar quit her job to pursue a singing career after being inspired by a Liza Minnelli concert she saw in Richmond. She had a gig at a Holiday Inn and got a job as a singing waitress at a nightclub named the Roaring Twenties.[7] At the Roaring Twenties, she met and formed a duo with pianist, Phil Coxon, which shortly expanded to a ten-person lounge band called Coxon's Army, a regular at Sam Miller'south basement order.[vii] The band gained in popularity and was the discipline of a never-aired PBS special; its bassist Roger Capps was later the original bass player for the Pat Benatar Band. The period besides yielded Benatar's first and simply single until her eventual 1979 single (taken from the album In the Rut of the Night on Chrysalis Records): "Day Gig" (1974), Trace Records, written and produced past Coxon and locally released in Richmond.[ description needed ] Her last significant gig in Richmond was a two-hour performance at Thomas Jefferson High School.[7]

Dennis Benatar was discharged from the Army and the couple moved to New York in May 1975 and so Benatar could pursue a singing career.[vii] Benatar performed at an amateur dark at the comedy club Catch a Rising Star in New York. Her rendition of Judy Garland's "Rock-a-Farewell Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" earned her a callback by club owner Rick Newman, who then became her manager; she became a regular performer at Catch a Rising Star for the next 3 years. In late 1975 she landed the part of Zephyr in Harry Chapin'southward futuristic rock musical, The Zinger, which ran for a month in 1976 at the Performing Arts Foundation'south (PAF) Playhouse in Huntington Station, Long Island.

Halloween 1977 proved a pivotal night in Benatar's early, spandexed stage persona. She entered a Halloween contest at the Cafe Figaro in Greenwich Village dressed as a character from the picture show True cat-Women of the Moon. Later that evening, she went onstage at Catch a Rise Star still in costume.[8] Between appearances at Catch a Ascent Star, she recorded commercial jingles for Pepsi-Cola and a number of regional brands. She headlined New York Metropolis's Tramps nightclub over four days in spring 1978, where her functioning was heard past representatives from several record companies. She was signed to Chrysalis Records by co-founder Terry Ellis the following week.[9] Pat Benatar and Dennis Benatar divorced presently after, although she kept his surname.

1979–1981: In the Heat of the Night and Crimes of Passion [edit]

Benatar's debut album, In the Oestrus of the Dark, was released in August 1979, but only debuted on the US Billboard 200 album chart in Oct, somewhen peaking at number 12 in the US in March 1980. Mike Chapman produced three tracks on the album, while engineer Peter Coleman oversaw the remainder. In addition, Chapman and his songwriting partner, Nicky Chinn, wrote three songs that appear on the LP: "In the Estrus of the Night" and "If You lot Recall You Know How to Beloved Me" which were previously recorded by Smokie, and a rearranged version of a vocal they wrote for Sweet, "No You Don't". The album also featured two songs written by Roger Capps and Benatar; "I Need a Lover", written by John Mellencamp; and "Don't Let It Show", written past Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

The album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in December 1980.[10] Canada became the anthology's nigh successful market place as it certified 4× Platinum there with nautical chart peak of number 3 on the RPM albums chart.[11] While it was a moderate success in Australia, reaching number 25, and very successful in New Zealand, reaching number eight, it barely fabricated the Top 100 in the UK. Unusual for an English-language album, its nearly successful European market was French republic where it went to number 20.

"If You Think You Know How to Beloved Me" was the showtime single to be released on September 14, 1979. Nonetheless, it was unsuccessful. Benatar's second single "Heartbreaker" was released on October 26, 1979, and became a sleeper hit, somewhen climbing to number 23 in the U.s., number 16 in Canada and number fourteen in New Zealand. Information technology was later listed at No. 72 on VH1's list of the Greatest Hard Rock songs of all-time.[12] A third unmarried "We Live for Dear", which was written by her future hubby Neil Giraldo, was released in February 1980, and became her starting time Acme ten hit anywhere by reaching number 8 in Canada, while reaching number 27 in the Us, number 26 in New Zealand, and number 28 in Australia, her first hit there.[13]

In August 1980, Benatar released her second LP, Crimes of Passion, featuring her signature vocal "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" forth with the controversial vocal "Hell Is for Children", which was inspired by reading a series of manufactures in the New York Times nearly child abuse in America.[ citation needed ] "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (United states number 9) was her start single to intermission the US Top 10 and sold more than one million copies (Golden condition) in the United States. It was also a Elevation 10 hit in Canada and a moderate hit in Australia where it reached number 33. The album peaked for five consecutive weeks at number 2 in the US in Jan 1981 (behind John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy) and a month later, Benatar won her first Grammy Award for "Best Female person Rock Song Performance" of 1980 for the anthology.[14]

Other singles released from Crimes of Passion were "Treat Me Right" (Us number 18 and Canada number 12) and the Rascals' cover, "Y'all Better Run" (US number 42 merely did not nautical chart in Canada), which was the second music video ever played on MTV, afterward the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star".[9] [xv] The album also featured a changed-tempo embrace of Kate Bush-league'due south "Wuthering Heights". Produced by Keith Olsen, Crimes of Passion remained on the US album charts for 93 weeks and in the top x for more six months, becoming her first Platinum certification past the RIAA, and was subsequently certified equally being 4× Platinum, her biggest selling album in the U.s.a.. In October 1980, Benatar (along with time to come married man Neil Giraldo) appeared on the comprehend of Rolling Stone magazine. The album was certified 5× Platinum in Canada, her best selling anthology in that state, where it peaked at number 2 on the album charts.[16] Information technology was also successful in New Zealand (number half dozen), French republic (number 2) and Australia (number sixteen) but did not nautical chart in the Britain.

1982–1983: Precious Time, Go Nervous, and Live from Earth [edit]

In July 1981, Benatar released her third studio album, Precious Time, which became her get-go album to hit number one on the Billboard 200. In Canada it was certified double Platinum and peaked at number 2 on the anthology chart.[17] Information technology was as well her first to chart in the Great britain, reaching number 30, and became her biggest success in Australia and New Zealand, reaching number viii and number 2, respectively, while once more being highly successful in France, peaking at number 3. The album's lead single, "Fire and Ice" (co-written by ring fellow member Scott Sheets), was another hit (United states number 17 and number ii on the new Rock Tracks chart, Canada number 4, Meridian 30 Australia and New Zealand) and won Benatar her second Grammy Award for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" and her tertiary sequent RIAA certified Platinum album, somewhen being certified double Platinum. "Promises in the Nighttime" (United states of america number 38 and Canada number 31) was also released equally a single.

Get Nervous was released in 1982, led by a hitting single and MTV video, "Shadows of the Night", which sold well: Usa Hot 100 number 13 and Rock Tracks chart number iii, Canada number 12, and AUS number xix. The album was another success, reaching number 4 in the US, although it sold less well in most other countries, by and large only reaching the Elevation xx (Canada number xvi), and just reached number 73 in the Uk. Information technology was her quaternary sequent RIAA and CRIA Platinum certification, and "Shadows of the Nighttime" garnered Benatar her third Grammy, again for "Best Female person Rock Vocal Performance". The follow-up singles, "Little As well Late" and "Looking for a Stranger", were also successful in the The states, hit number twenty and number 39 (plus number iv on the Stone Tracks chart) but did not chart outside the United states, even in Canada. The WWII-themed music video for "Shadows of the Nighttime" featured then-unknown actors Approximate Reinhold as an American fighter copilot and Bill Paxton every bit a German language radio operator.

By 1983, Benatar had established a reputation for singing nearly "tough" discipline matters, best exemplified past one of the biggest hits of her career, "Love Is a Battlefield" (penned past noted hit songwriter Holly Knight with Mike Chapman), released in Dec 1983. By and so, her sound had mellowed from hard rock to more atmospheric popular and the story-based video clip for "Dearest Is a Battlefield" was aimed squarely at MTV, even featuring Benatar in a Michael Jackson-inspired group dance number, using Jackson'due south Beat It director Bob Giraldi and choreographer Michael Peters. This new pop/rock direction was a huge commercial success, with the single remaining today equally her biggest hitting in about countries. This included it peaking at number five on the US Hot 100, number 1 for four weeks on the US Rock Tracks nautical chart, number 2 in Canada, number 1 in the netherlands (for four weeks ending equally the number 2 song for the year), her first Summit xxx hitting in that location, and at number 1 in Australia for seven consecutive weeks, her first Acme 25 hit there, number 3 in West Federal republic of germany, number five in Switzerland, number 6 in New Zealand, and number 17 in the Great britain, her first Top 50 song there. It was became her first song to chart in Switzerland reaching number 11 at that place. The song likewise netted Benatar her quaternary sequent Grammy Award for "All-time Female person Rock Vocal Performance".

"Love Is a Battlefield" was ane of two studio tracks included on the live album, Live from Earth, which was recorded during Benatar's sold-out 'Get Nervous' earth bout of America and Europe in 1982 and 1983, the other beingness "Lipstick Lies". The anthology had mixed success in different countries: it peaked at number two in Australia, number 12 in New Zealand, number 13 in the US, and became her beginning hitting album in Deutschland (number 7) and holland (number iv), but only made the Top 25 in Canada and France, and number threescore in the UK. It became her fifth consecutive RIAA and CRIA Platinum anthology.[x]

1984–1986: Tropico and 7 the Hard Way [edit]

In August 1984, Benatar released her fifth studio album, Tropico, which, bated from reaching number seven in New Zealand and number 31 in the UK, was generally a step back in virtually other countries (US number 14, Canada number 21, AUS number nine, French republic number 16, Germany number 26, Netherlands number 23). The single "Nosotros Belong", a deadening-tempo pop song, released in Oct 1984, a month prior to the album's release, became another summit ten hit in the US peaking at number v, reaching the Top 10 in several other countries, including number 7 in Commonwealth of australia, number 9 in West Germany, and number 5 in Switzerland, her most successful only concluding striking single in that location. It also peaked at number 22 in the UK. A 2nd unmarried release, "Ooh Ooh Song",[18] reached number 36 in the US, but fared poorly in other countries. It is said by Benatar and Giraldo that this album is the get-go where they moved away from Benatar'due south famed "difficult rock" sound and commencement experimenting with new, sometimes "gentler", styles and sounds. Despite not making the United states of america Top 10, the album immediately earned her a sixth consecutive RIAA and CRIA Platinum-certified album.

After the nautical chart success of "We Belong" in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, "Honey is a Battlefield" was re-released in the UK early 1985 and became her highest chart striking at that place, reaching number 17. "We Vest" was also nominated for Best Female person Pop Song Performance in 1986. Benatar's showtime nomination in that category.

In 1985, Benatar released her sixth studio anthology, Seven the Hard Manner. Benatar hit the U.s.a. Superlative 10 (and number 4 on the US Rock Tracks chart) with the Grammy-nominated rock single "Invincible" (the theme from the flick The Legend of Billie Jean), which was written by Holly Knight (Beloved Is a Battlefield) and Simon Climie, three full months before the album was released. The track also reached number 6 in Canada. Her other Grammy-nominated single from the album, the guitar-driven "Sex activity As a Weapon", climbed as high as number 28 on the US Hot 100 in January 1986, number v on the US Rock Tracks chart, and reached the Top 30 in Canada. Both the 7 and the Hard Way singles were less successful outside N America than the previous ii "gentler" singles, generally reaching the Peak 30 in Commonwealth of australia, Westward Frg, the Netherlands, and New Zealand (although Invincible went Top xv there), simply missing the Meridian 50 in the Britain. A third unmarried, the mellow "Le Bel Historic period", fabricated information technology to number 54 on the United states of america Hot 100.

Vii the Hard Way peaked at number 26 in the US, earning an RIAA Gold certification (import CD). In Canada, it was her seventh consecutive Platinum certified album even though it merely peaked at number 36 on the albums sales nautical chart. Information technology also reached number 19 in Australia and was a big success in New Zealand reaching number 2, merely did non attain the Top 50 in Westward Federal republic of germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland or the Uk, and for the offset fourth dimension, an anthology of Benatar's failed to chart in France. In Benatar'due south autobiography, Between a Middle and a Stone Place, she said, "Out of all the albums, Seven the Hard Fashion cost the almost to make and sold the to the lowest degree." The anthology sold approximately 600,000 The states copies.[19]

1987–1988: Best Shots and Wide Awake in Dreamland [edit]

In July 1988, Benatar released her 7th 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 United kingdom and Canada, earning her eighth consecutive Platinum certified anthology in Canada,[20] and number thirteen in Australia. Information technology peaked at number 26 in the US, but stalled at number 15 in New Zealand, usually one of her most successful markets. The Grammy-nominated lead unmarried, "All Fired Upwards" (written by Kerryn Tolhurst, ex-The Dingoes) reached number 19 in both the U.S. and the U.G. (plus number ii on the US Rock Tracks chart), number viii in Canada, number 20 in New Zealand, and was a number ii smash in Commonwealth of australia, becoming 1 of the biggest hits of 1988 in that country. Other singles released from the LP are "Don't Walk Abroad" (UK number 42), the Grammy nominated "Let's Stay Together", and "Ane Love" (Uk number 59).

1989–present: True Love, Gravity's Rainbow, and Go [edit]

Benatar performing in Sydney, October 2010

True Love was a jump blues record, released in late Apr 1991, and featured the blues band Roomful of Blues, backing up Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo and Myron Grombacher. The album sold over 339,000[21] copies without significant radio airplay and limited exposure on VH-i. "Payin' the Cost to Exist the Boss", "So Long", and the title cut were released as singles, with the first reaching number 17 on the US Rock Tracks chart, but not charting anywhere else. The album reached number xl in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and number 37 in the U.s.a.. It was certified Gold in Canada for sales of 50,000 units, her first to not accomplish Platinum status and her concluding certified anthology for that state where it peaked at 22 on the albums sales nautical chart.[22] It reached the Height xl in several other countries.

Gravity'south Rainbow was released in 1993 and was a return to the AOR genre. "Everybody Lay Down" was picked up by Anthology Stone radio and went all the way to number 3 on the Stone Tracks chart. The single was never released to Top xl/Gimmicky Hit Radio and a music video was never produced. The only other state where it charted was Canada where it reached number fifty. "Somebody'due south Infant" was instead released every bit the single to Peak xl radio and a music video produced, but it did not chart in the US and was simply a pocket-sized success in some other countries, including peaking at number 41 in Canada.

A tertiary track, "Everytime I Autumn Dorsum", was scheduled for release and a video was filmed, only the single was never released and the music video was lost when Chrysalis was sold to EMI Records. Benatar had become meaning again and it may have had an consequence on her label'due south support of the album. The tour for this album was only seven dates, cut curt because of the pregnancy. It was Benatar's last album recorded for Chrysalis. With very picayune promotion from Chrysalis, Gravity's Rainbow failed to have the same commercial success equally Benatar'due south previous work. According to SoundScan, the album sold approximately 160,000 copies in the United states of america and information technology reached number 85 on the album chart. It is currently bachelor in a two-in-one release with True Dear (import). The album but charted in i other market – that being Canada – where information technology reached number 44.[23]

Innamorata (US number 171) was released in 1997 on the CMC International record label. A single video was produced for "Strawberry Wine (Life is Sweet)". According to SoundScan, the album sold close to 65,000 copies.

Benatar has released merely one anthology of new textile since 1997'south Innamorata, which is 2003'south Go (US number 187). The album included the 9/eleven charity single "Christmas in America" as a bonus rail. A video was produced for the single "Have It All", just was never released until it was leaked on YouTube in 2012; the only video from this album is for the bonus rails. They reunited with Holly Knight with Neil and Holly cowriting the tune "Girl". The hard rock championship rails "Go!" became a popular performance song for Benatar'due south future concerts. According to SoundScan, the album has at present sold nearly 34,000 copies.

In Nov 2015, Benatar recorded and released a holiday song called "One Dec Night".

In January 2017, Benatar recorded the vocal "Shine" to back up the Women's March on January 21, 2017, which was her kickoff original non-holiday recording in over 10 years. In September of the aforementioned yr Benatar again teamed with songwriter and producer Linda Perry for the song "Dancing Through the Wreckage", which was the lead single from the soundtrack for the documentary Served Like a Daughter. In Oct 2017 the song entered the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart, somewhen peaking at number 22 in November. The song besides received a nomination for Best Song from a Documentary from the Critics' Selection Awards.

In 2020, Benatar was nominated for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside fifteen other artists but despite coming in 2d in the fan vote was not amongst the inductees.[24] She was nominated for a 2d time in 2022.[25]On May 4, 2022, the Hall of Fame announced Benatar will be included in the 2022 class of inductees.[26]

Personal life [edit]

Benatar with her husband and lead guitarist, Neil Giraldo, 2009

Pat Benatar married her loftier school sweetheart, Dennis Benatar, at the historic period of 19 in 1972. The couple divorced in 1979. She has been married to her 2nd husband, guitarist Neil Giraldo, since 1982. They have ii daughters[27] and live in Los Angeles, California.[28] Both her daughters Haley and Hana Giraldo appeared on the Due east! reality television series, Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive and Relatively Famous: Ranch Rules, in late 2005 and early 2022 respectively.[29] [30]

Benatar is a lapsed Roman Catholic.[31]

Tours [edit]

  • 1979–1980: toured in support of In the Heat of the Night and Crimes of Passion
  • 1981: Precious Time Tour
  • 1982–1983: Get Nervous Bout, resulting in the Live from Earth album and HBO special released on VHS and (eventually) DVD
  • 1985–1986: Seven the Difficult Mode Tour
  • 1988: Wide Awake in Dreamland Tour
  • 1991: Truthful Beloved Tour with Hall and Oates
  • 1993: Gravity's Rainbow Bout with seven dates simply (cut short because of second pregnancy)
  • 1995: Can't Stop Rockin' Tour with Fleetwood Mac and REO Speedwagon
  • 1996: Hits Tour, which previewed some material from Innamorata
  • 1997: toured with the Steve Miller Band, adding full-length solo shows in bars and clubs on Miller's nights off; appeared at Lilith Off-white for two performances
  • 1998: Innamorata Bout
  • 1999: Synchronistic Wanderings 20th Anniversary Tour
  • 2000: PB2000 Tour
  • 2001–2002: Summer Holiday Tour in support of the CD and DVD release Summertime Vacation Tour
  • 2003: I Won't Go Tour
  • 2004: Let's Go Tour
  • 2005: Most II Tour
  • 2006: Polyamnesia Off the Rock Bout
  • 2007: Summarized Tour
  • 2008: Fired Up! Tour
  • 2009: Call Me Invincible Bout with Blondie; as well featured The Donnas on some full-length solo shows
  • 2010: Love on the Run Tour with REO Speedwagon,[32] which included her former drummer Myron Grombacher. Subsequently, in October 2010, she toured Australia and played various dates with the 1980s girl popular grouping The Bangles[ citation needed ]
  • 2011: The Elements of Five Tour
  • 2012: toured with Loverboy and Journey
  • 2013: New Zealand tour with Bachman & Turner and America; North American tour with Cheap Trick, Eric Burdon and selected solo dates
  • 2014: Dressed to Kill Tour with Cher[33]
  • 2014: 35th Anniversary tour with solo dates, and co-headlining dates with Rick Springfield, Cheap Play a trick on, and John Waite. Berlin besides opened for Benatar on a few dates
  • 2015: 35th Ceremony tour continued from previously cancelled dates with Cher, in support of the 35th Anniversary Tour (Live) CD/DVD release; this tour too was cancelled considering of emergency center surgery for Neil Giraldo in late summer 2015. An acoustic bout with just Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo was begun in October
  • 2016: Nosotros Alive For Love Tour with Melissa Etheridge and solo dates. In protestation of the anti-LGBT laws passed in Mississippi and Due north Carolina, Benatar chose to still perform in those states. The proceeds from her tickets sales, yet, were donated to organizations to help fund the reversal of those laws
  • 2017: Let'south Become Tour
  • 2018: Most II Tour
  • 2019: 40th Ceremony Bout
  • 2021: De Novo Tour
  • 2022: De Novo Tour 2022

Memoir [edit]

In June 2010, Benatar's memoir, Between a Heart and a Rock Place, was released.[34] The book was published by HarperCollins and was acquired by Lisa Sharkey. Benatar's memoir touches on her battles with her record company Chrysalis, the difficulties that her career acquired in her personal life, and feminism. In the memoir, she is quoted as proverb, "For every 24-hour interval since I was erstwhile enough to think, I've considered myself a feminist … It's empowering to lookout and to know that, perhaps in some way, I made the difficult path [women] take to walk simply a little bit easier."[35] The book went on to get a New York Times bestseller. Initially reluctant to undertake the project, she found the bodily writing process and then enjoyable that it inspired her with plans to write a novel.[32] In summer 2011, Benatar announced she was working on a Christmas album and a novel virtually the second coming of Christ.[36]

Band [edit]

Although billed as a solo artist, Benatar recorded and toured with a consequent gear up of band members over well-nigh of her career:

  • Neil "Spyder" Giraldo (incorrectly spelled as "Geraldo" in early liner notes/credits) is the lead guitarist of the band and has performed on all of Benatar'due south albums.
  • Myron Grombacher, who played with Giraldo in Rick Derringer's touring band, is drummer on nine of Benatar's original albums (Crimes of Passion, Precious Fourth dimension, Become Nervous, Live from Globe, Tropico, Seven the Hard Mode, Wide Awake in Dreamland, True Love, and Gravity'southward Rainbow) and has numerous writing credits. Grombacher is easily recognizable in the music videos, particularly as the mad dentist in "Anxiety (Get Nervous)".[37]
  • Charlie Giordano performed keyboard duties on six albums (Become Nervous, Live from Earth, Tropico, Seven the Difficult Style, Wide Awake in Dreamland and True Love) and is identifiable by his glasses and distinctive array of berets, blazers, and 1980s-way ties. In 2007, he replaced the tardily Danny Federici in the Due east Street Band.
  • Roger Capps, the original bassist for the first five albums (In the Heat of the Dark, Crimes of Passion, Precious Time, Become Nervous, and Live from Globe), co-wrote "Hell Is For Children" with Benatar and Giraldo and left the band in 1984.[38]
  • Scott St. Clair Sheets (Scott Sheets) who was originally the lead guitarist of the 1970s band, The Brats, was an original member of the Pat Benatar Band. Sheets is credited equally guitarist on the first iii albums (In the Heat of the Dark, Crimes of Passion, and Precious Time) and beginning 3 world tours. He wrote the song "Prisoner of Love" for the Crimes of Passion album and co-wrote the hitting "Fire and Ice" for the Precious Fourth dimension album.
  • Mick Mahan is the band's bassist and has performed with Benatar since 1995 and has appeared on albums (Innamorata and Go). The original bassist, Roger Capps, was replaced past Donnie Nossov on Tropico, and then afterwards by Frank Linx.[39]
  • Donnie Nossov was the band's second bassist for ii of Pat Benatar's albums (Tropico and Seven the Hard Way)
  • Frank Linx was the bassist for two of Pat Benatar'south studio albums (Wide Awake in Dreamland and Gravity's Rainbow)
  • Glen Alexander Hamilton played drums on the kickoff album (In the Heat of the Night).
  • Chuck Domanico was the band's bassist on their 8th studio album and ninth album overall (True Honey)
  • Chris Ralles is the band's electric current drummer.

Phase and screen appearances [edit]

Benatar and Giraldo, October 2010

  • Benatar played the role of Jeanette Florescu in the motion-picture show Union Urban center (1980), directed by Mark Reichert.[40]
  • Benatar played the graphic symbol Zephyr in Harry Chapin's futuristic rock musical The Zinger. Benatar performed the solo "Shooting star" in award of Chapin for the Harry Chapin Tribute, Carnegie Hall, December 7, 1987.
  • Benatar has made numerous television appearances, generally every bit herself. She appeared with her husband Neil Giraldo in the Charmed episode "Lucky Charmed" on which "Heartbreaker" was used and in an episode of Dharma & Greg as herself singing "Nosotros've Simply Just Begun" at an impromptu hymeneals in an airport. In 2001, she also appeared equally fictional rock star Anna Raines in the CBS goggle box drama Family Law with Dixie Carter and Christopher McDonald. Benatar too appeared on That 80'southward Show as herself.
  • Benatar appeared as a special invitee at the 6th annual VH1 Divas concert, VH1 Divas Duets, performing "Heartbreaker" with Giraldo and headliner Lisa Marie Presley, with the married couple interviewed by Sharon Osbourne post-obit the performance.
  • In 2003, Benatar and her music were featured on CMT Crossroads, in an episode that paired her with country singer Martina McBride (who was influenced by Benatar'south vocal range).
  • Benatar and Giraldo performed in the Tiny Desk Concerts series of NPR Music on November 14, 2014. At the Tiny Desk, Benatar and Giraldo ran through three of their archetype songs: "Nosotros Alive For Love," "We Belong" and "Promises In The Dark".[41]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Discography [edit]

  • In the Heat of the Night (1979)
  • Crimes of Passion (1980)
  • Precious Time (1981)
  • Go Nervous (1982)
  • Live from Earth (1983)
  • Tropico (1984)
  • Seven the Hard Style (1985)
  • Wide Awake in Dreamland (1988)
  • Truthful Love (1991)
  • Gravity'southward Rainbow (1993)
  • Innamorata (1997)
  • Go (2003)

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Further reading [edit]

  • Benatar, Pat and Cox, Patsi (2010). Between a Centre and a Rock Identify. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-195377-four.
  • Fissinger, Laura (1983). Pat Benatar. Rock'n PopStars. Mankato, Minn.: Artistic Teaching. ISBN 0-89813-101-4. OCLC 10490971.
  • Magee, Doug (1985). Pat Benatar. Proteus. ISBN 978-0-86276-251-3.

External links [edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Pat Benatar discography at Discogs
  • Pat Benatar at IMDb

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