Pat Benatar

Pat Benatar (born January 10, 1953) is a popular American rock singer who had numerous hits during the 1980s such as "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and "Love is a Battlefield". Benatar's music video for the song &quo

Pat Benatar (born January 10, 1953) is a popular American rock singer who had numerous hits during the 1980s such as "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and "Love is a Battlefield". Benatar's music video for the song "You Better Run" was the second music video ever shown on MTV after the Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star".

She was born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski in Brooklyn, but grew up in Lindenhurst, New York, initially studying opera like her mother. She married Dennis T. Benatar in 1971, providing her the surname with which she became famous. She was discovered at an amateur-night contest in the New York City comedy club "Catch a Rising Star" in 1977. After performing successfully several times at the club, Benatar finally found her onstage persona in the form of a wild Halloween costume which she had worn as a joke. "The crowd was always polite, but this time they went out of their minds," Benatar would later report. "It was the same songs, sung the same way, and I thought, 'Oh my god...it's these clothes and this makeup!'" And because of that performance, she was signed to Chrysalis Records by its founder Terry Ellis.