Patty Pravo
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Patty Pravo in concert in September 2010
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nicoletta Strambelli |
| Born |
9 April 1948 Venice, Italy |
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| Genres | Pop, pop rock, chanson |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Labels | RCA Italiana, Philips, Compagnia Generale del Disco, Fonit Cetra, Sony Music Entertainment, Carosello, Warner Music Group |
| Website | http://www.pattypravoweb.com/ |
Patty Pravo (born 9 April 1948; Nicoletta Strambelli) is an Italian singer. She debuted in 1966 and remained most successful commercially for the rest of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Having suffered a decline in popularity in the next decade, she experienced a career revival in the mid-1990s and reinstated her position in Italian music charts. Her most popular songs include "La bambola" (1968), "Pazza idea" (1973), "Pensiero stupendo" (1978) and "...e dimmi che non vuoi morire" (1997). She has scored fourteen top 10 albums (including three number ones) and fourteen top 10 singles (including two number ones) in her native Italy. Pravo has participated in Sanremo Music Festival nine times, most recently in 2016, and have won three critics' awards at the festival. She has also performed twelve times at Festivalbar. Patty Pravo is reportedly the third best-selling Italian artist of all time, after Mina and Adriano Celentano, having sold more than 110 million records as of 2014.
Strambelli studied at the conservatory institute of Benedetto Marcello and was acquainted with American poet Ezra Pound and the Pope John XXIII. At the age of fifteen she left home to live in London and then Rome, where she began her career singing in the Piper Club.
In 1966, Pravo released her first single, "Ragazzo triste" (English: "Sad Boy"), the Italian version of the song "But You're Mine" by Sonny & Cher. It was met with chart success and would later become the first pop song broadcast on Vatican Radio. "Ragazzo triste" was followed by other popular singles in 1967, "Sto con te" ("I'm with You") and "Se perdo te" ("If I Lose You"), the latter written by English songwriter Paul Korda. In 1968, Pravo released what would become her most popular single and a number 1 hit, "La bambola" ("The Doll"), as well as her debut LP, Patty Pravo. The album topped the Italian albums chart and "La bambola" was awarded a gold disc.
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