American singer-songwriter
Born: January 10, 1953
Pat Benatar was born Patricia Andrzejewski in Brooklyn and raised in suburban Lindenhurst, Long Island. Her mother, Millie, had sacrificed her own career as an opera singer to bring up Pat and her son, Andrew. Years later, it was Pat who sang classically, honing the powers of her 4.5-octave voice as a member of Lindenhurst High’s musical theater department. Having been accepted at Juilliard, Pat shocked friends and family by marrying her high-school sweetheart, Dennis T. Benatar, a soldier, and moving off to Virginia, where he had been stationed. Before long, the tedium of life as a housewife and bank teller proved too much for Pat, and she joined Coxon’s Army, a cabaret band on the Richmond club circuit. Coxon’s Army rose to new heights of fame, and Pat was instilled with the confidence to move to New York City and pursue her own dream, which brought her to Manhattan’s “Catch a Rising Star.”
Pat Benatar’s 5 most popular quotes
- You can’t change the past so don’t let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you’ve got to want to.
- We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.
- If at any moment of the day I ever think I’m remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
- The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.
- If you’re retired, it’s a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it’s not a blessing as all – it’s a curse.
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