She was innate Patricia Mae Andrzejewski around Brooklyn, but grew higher around Lindenhurst, New York. She at first exposed opera like her mother. She married Dennis T. Benatar within 1971, providing her the last name by owning which she became noted. She was found at an amateur-nighttime contest in the New York City comedy club "Catch a Rising Star" in 1977, and was gestural to Chrysalis Records by its founder Terry Ellis.

She divorced Benatar and late married a band's guitarist, Neil Giraldo. It use deuce girl.

She is known for her operatic voice & 'hard' attitude. She won 4 sequentially Grammy Awards for "Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female" from either 1980 to 1983, and was nominative Iv extra days inside 1985, 1986, 1988, and 1989.

Benatar however writes & tours by using her hubby, & has too get the commercial spokeswoman for the Energizer company.

In the Summer of 2005 Pat's daughter, Haley Giraldo, starred in E!'s reality TV series, Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive.

Discography
In the Heat of the Night (1979) (Chrysalis) Crimes of Passion (1980) (Chrysalis) Precious Time (1981) (Chrysalis) Get Nervous (1982) (Chrysalis) Live From Earth (1983) (Chrysalis) Tropico (1984) (Chrysalis) Seven the Hard Way (1985) (Chrysalis) Wide Awake in Dreamland (1988) (Chrysalis) Best Shots (1989) (Chrysalis) True Love (1991) (Chrysalis) ''Gravity's Rainbow (1993) (Chrysalis) Innamorata (1997) (CMC International) Go'' (2003) (Bel Chiasso/Welk)

Singles

"Heartbreaker" (1979) #23 US "We Live For Love" (1980) #27 US "You Better Run" (1980) #42 US "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (1980) #9 US "Treat Me Right" (1981) #18 US "Fire And Ice" (1981) #17 US "Promises In The Dark" (1981) #38 US "Shadows Of The Night" (1982) #13 Usa, #50 UK (1985) "Little Too Late" (1983) #20 US "Looking For A Stranger" (1983) #39 US "Love Is A Battlefield" (1983) #5 America, #17 UK (1985) "We Belong" (1984) #5 Usa, #22 UK "Ooh Ooh Song" (1985) #36 US "Invincible" (1985) #10 U.s.a., #53 UK "Sex As A Weapon" (1985) #28 United states, #67 UK "Le Bel Age" (1986) #54 US "All Fired Up" (1988) #19 The states, #19 UK