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Pat Benatar
Patricia Mae Giraldo is an American singer and songwriter. In the US, she has two multi-platinum albums, five platinum albums, and 15 US Billboard top 40 singles, while in Canada she had eight straight platinum albums, and has sold over 36 million albums worldwide. She is a four-time Grammy Award winner. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
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entertainment · American singer and songwriter (born 1953) · singer · composer · songwriter · actor · singer-songwriter · rock singer · musician · also Pat Benatar, Patricia Mae Giraldo, Patti Andrzejewski, Benatar
Born 10 January 1953 · Q235252
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2026· 10 entries
New York Daily News: Readers sound off on South Carolina voters, Europe’s wildfires and Pat Benatar
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Ultimate Classic Rock: Watch Bryan Adams and Pat Benatar Cover a Stevie Wonder Classic
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Reality Tea: Before Tangled, Kathryn Hahn Was Belting Pat Benatar at Karaoke
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93X: Bryan Adams Brings Out Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo for Rare Onstage Jam at L.A. Stop
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American Songwriter: Bryan Adams and Pat Benatar Unite for Unforgettable Stevie Wonder Performance in Detroit
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Parklife DC: Live Review: Bryan Adams w/ Pat Benatar @ CFG Bank Arena — 8/9/26
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Yahoo: Bryan Adams Brings Pat Benatar Onstage for Surprise Stevie Wonder Cover
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Pollstar News: Weekend Cameo Count: Bruno Mars During Karol G; Chappell Roan For Noah Kahan; Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo For Bryan Adams
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Billboard: Bryan Adams Brings Out Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo for Surprise Stevie Wonder Cover in Detroit
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo! Sports: Pat Benatar sports Packers attire during Appleton visit with husband Neil Giraldo for their children's book
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Yahoo: Pat Benatar Says She Still Has Clothes in Her Closet from the 1980s — Including an Item Her Daughter 'Begs for' (Exclusive)
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2024· 4 entries
Published video “Pat Benatar - I'm Gonna Follow You”.
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Published video “Pat Benatar - So Long”.
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Published video “Pat Benatar - Don't Walk Away”.
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American Songwriter: Pat Benatar Says She and Husband Neil Giraldo Have Around 125 Unrecorded New Songs, Floats the “Possibility” of a New Album
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2023· 1 entry
Newsweek: Ted Cruz Mocked for ‘Ridiculous’ Pat Benatar Comment
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2022· 6 entries
The Cheat Sheet: Why Pat Benatar Refuses to Sing ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ Anymore
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Benatar announced that she would stop performing "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" on her current tour "in deference to the victims of the families of these [recent] mass shootings"
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Ultimate Classic Rock: Pat Benatar Not Playing ‘Best Shot’ to Respect Shooting Victims
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2022).
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The Hall of Fame announced Benatar and Giraldo would be included in the 2022 class of inductees
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Digital Journal: Pat Benatar earns 2022 nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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2020· 2 entries
Published video “"Together" by Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo”.
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Benatar was co-nominated with her husband for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside fifteen other artists but despite coming in second in the fan vote was not among the inductees
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2017· 2 entries
Which was her first original non-holiday recording in over 10 years
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Released album “5 Classic Albums”.
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2015· 6 entries
Published video “#9 - "True Love" - Benatar/Giraldo BONUS Album Stories Contest!”.
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Published video “#8 - "All Fired Up" - Benatar/Giraldo Song Stories Contest”.
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Published video “Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo (from 35th Anniversary Tour Release)”.
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Published video “#7 - "We Belong" - Benatar/Giraldo Song Stories Contest”.
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Published video “#6 - "Love is a Battlefield" - Benatar/Giraldo Song Stories Contest”.
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Published video “#5 - "Heartbreaker" - Benatar/Giraldo Song Stories Contest”.
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “35th Anniversary Tour”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Pat Benatar Icon”.
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “10 Great Songs”.
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Released album “The Essential”.
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Released album “Live from Earth / Wide Awake in Dreamland”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Ultimate Collection”.
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2007· 1 entry
Replaced the late Danny Federici in the E Street Band
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Go”.
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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's vocal range)
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “The Very Best Pat Benatar Album Ever”.
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Released album “Classic Masters”.
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2001· 5 entries
Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “The Best of Pat Benatar, Volume One”.
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Released album “The Best of Volume 2”.
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Also appeared as fictional rock star Anna Raines in the CBS television drama Family Law with Dixie Carter and Christopher McDonald
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Released album “Live: Summer Vacation Tour Soundtrack”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits Live”.
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Released album “Extended Versions: The Encore Collection”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Best: Sex as a Weapon”.
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Released album “Synchronistic Wanderings”.
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Released album “Pat Benatar”.
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1998· 6 entries
Released album “8‐15‐80”.
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Released album “1980-01-22: Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, CO, USA”.
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Released album “Premium Gold Collection”.
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Released album “In the Heat of the Night / Crimes of Passion”.
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Released album “Tropico / Seven the Hard Way”.
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Released album “Precious Time / Get Nervous”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Innamorata”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “16 Classic Performances”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Pat Benatar, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Back to Back Hits”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “36 All-Time Greatest Hits”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “All Fired Up: The Very Best of Pat Benatar”.
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Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Gravity’s Rainbow”.
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Released album “Live USA”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Love Is a Battlefield”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “True Love”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released ep “Les Lady’s du Rock”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Best Shots”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Wide Awake in Dreamland”.
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1985· 2 entries
Released album “Seven the Hard Way”.
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Benatar released her sixth album, Seven the Hard Way
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1984· 2 entries
Released album “Tropico”.
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Benatar released her fifth album, Tropico, which, aside from reaching number 7 in New Zealand and number 31 in the UK, was generally a step back in most other countries (US number 14, Canada number 21, AUS number 9, Fran
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Live From Earth”.
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1982· 4 entries
Released album “Get Nervous”.
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She has been married to her second husband, guitarist Neil Giraldo, since 1982.
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And 1983, the other being "Lipstick Lies"
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Led by a hit single and MTV video, "Shadows of the Night", which sold well: US Hot 100 number 13 and Rock Tracks chart number 3, Canada number 12, and AUS number 19
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Precious Time”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (1981).
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1980· 2 entries
Released ep “EP”.
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Released album “Crimes of Passion”.
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1979· 2 entries
And became a sleeper hit, eventually climbing to number 23 in the US, number 16 in Canada and number 14 in New Zealand
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Released album “In the Heat of the Night”.
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1976· 1 entry
At the Performing Arts Foundation's (PAF) Playhouse in Huntington Station, Long Island
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1972· 1 entry
At age 19, Benatar married her high school sweetheart, Dennis Benatar
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-01-10.
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