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Pat Benatar (born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on 10 January 1953) is an influential, four-time Grammy Award-winning American rock singer with six platinum and four gold albums to her credit, as well as 19 Top 40 singles.

Biography

Pat Benatar was born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski (AND-zhe-YEV-skee) in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, to a Polish family. Andrzejewski initially studied voice and Harry Chapin's futuristic rock musical "The Zinger." Set in a recording studio sometime around the year 2000, the production, which debuted on March 19, 1976, at the Performing Arts Foundation's (PAF) Playhouse in Huntington Station, Long Island, renamed the Harry Chapin Center, ran for a month and also featured Beverly D'Angelo and Christine Lahti. Benatar said, "It was great. I'd an afro wig with glitter on! It was so fabulous." Benatar performed the solo "Shooting Star" in honor of Chapin for the Harry Chapin Tribute, Carnegie Hall, December 7, 1987.
   In 1980, she portrayed the character "Jeanette Florescu" in Marcus Reichert's film noir Union City.
   Benatar had a song featured in the 1980's version of the movie Metropolis.
   In 1985, "Invincible" was the title track to the cult movie The Legend of Billie Jean. In April of 1989 she appeared in an "ABC Afterschool Special" entitled "Torn Between Two Fathers" about a teenage girl who sues her natural father for the right to remain in her step-family's home following the accidental death of her natural mother. Pat played "Donna", the current wife of the teenager's natural father.
   Benatar has made numerous TV appearances, mostly as herself. She appeared with her husband in the Charmed episode "Lucky Charmed", on which "Heartbreaker" was used, and in an episode of Dharma & Greg as herself (singing "We've Only Just Begun" at an impromptu wedding in an airport). In 2006, Benatar performed at the July 4th music event in Dublin, Ohio.
   The song "Love Is a Battlefield" was featured twice on South Park, the first being the Season 2 episode "Ike's Wee Wee", but most notably in the episode "Red Man's Greed".
   She appeared on an episode of the short-lived sitcom That '80s Show, as herself. She was an old rival of the character Margaret. Her video for "Love is a Battlefield" appeared on an earlier episode of the show as well.
   The song "Love is a Battlefield" was also used in the 2004 movie 13 Going on 30, starring Jennifer Garner.
   On February 14 and 15, 2008, she and husband Neil "Spyder" Giraldo appeared as themselves on The Young and the Restless when they performed at the Indigo club.

Advertising

In 2006, the song "We Belong" was part of a $20 million dollar ad campaign for Sheraton hotels, although the version used in the commercial wasn't Benatar's. Her version of the song is featured in the 2006 comedy, starring Will Ferrell and directed by Adam McKay.
Though she'd earlier expressed dismay for rock stars endorsing products (including onetime cohort Debbie Harry, who had developed her modeling career simultaneously to her rock career), Benatar herself has now become a commercial spokeswoman for the Energizer company, and is currently being featured in an ad for Candies Vintage shoes for Kohl's department store.
Her 2007 song "Passion" can be downloaded free from the Jell-o Official site.

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