Patty Pravo
Patty Pravo | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Nicoletta Strambelli |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instrument(s) | piano |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Labels | Sony Music Entertainment |
| Website | www.coltempo.it |
Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli, 9 April 1948 Venice, Italy) is an Italian pop singer whose career has spanned more than four decades. Her first single "Ragazzo triste", released in 1966, was the first pop song aired on Vatican Radio. In 2011 she participated - for the eighth time - in the Italian song contest, the Sanremo Music Festival.
Biography
Strambelli studied at the conservatory institute of Benedetto Marcello and was acquainted with American poet Ezra Pound and with Angelo Roncalli (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 she made her first single, "Ragazzo triste" ("Sad Boy"), the Italian version of the song "But You're Mine" by Sonny & Cher. It was the first pop song broadcast on Vatican Radio.
Pravo followed that by recording numerous songs, the most popular being "Qui e là" ("Here and There"), "Se perdo te" ("If I Lose You", 1967, written by English songwriter Paul Korda), "La bambola" ("The Doll", 1968, "Sentimento" ("Feeling", 1968), "Il paradiso" ("Heaven", 1969, written by Lucio Battisti), "La solitudine" ("The Loneliness", with Robert Charlebois) "Pazza idea" ("Crazy Idea", 1973) and "Pensiero stupendo" ("Stupendous Thought", 1978). "La bambola" sold over one million copies by the end of 1968, and was awarded a gold disc.[1]
She has been featured on many Italian television shows. In 1970 Pravo hosted her own show called Bravo Pravo, broadcast on French television, and in 1978 appeared in a highly controversial Italian TV show, Stryx, where she wore provocative clothing which attracted much attention. She became a symbol for women of the 1960s, exemplifying their evolution from more established conservative roles.
In 1994 she traveled to China to record her album Ideogrammi. In 1995 returned to Italy and re-emerged in 1997 with the number 1 hit "E dimmi che non vuoi morire" ("And Tell Me That You Don't Want to Die"), written by Vasco Rossi.
Her last Italian top 10 album was in 2002 Radio Station. In 2004 Pravo released four albums, including the popular Nic-Unic. In 2007 she released a tribute album to Dalida, entitled Spero che ti piaccia... Pour toi ("I Hope You Like It... For You"). Pravo has participated in the Sanremo Music Festival seven times. In 2009 she was at Sanremo with the song Ed io verrò un giorno là, accompanied by Dave Weckl, Todd Rundgren and Nathan East. In 2011 she releases the album "Nella terra dei pinguini" ("In the Land of the Penguins") recorded with young producer Diego Calvetti.
Discography
Studio albums
| Year | Title | ITA[2][3][4] |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Patty Pravo | 1 |
| 1969 | Concerto per Patty | 5 |
| 1970 | Patty Pravo | 7 |
| 1971 | Bravo Pravo | 12 |
| Di vero in fondo | 7 | |
| Per aver visto un uomo piangere e soffrire Dio si trasformò in musica e poesia | 17 | |
| 1972 | Sì... incoerenza | 12 |
| 1973 | Pazza idea | 1 |
| 1974 | Mai una signora | 1 |
| 1975 | Incontro | 4 |
| 1976 | Tanto | 9 |
| Patty Pravo | — | |
| 1978 | Miss Italia | 8 |
| 1979 | Munich Album | 22 |
| 1982 | Cerchi | 24 |
| 1984 | Occulte persuasioni | — |
| 1987 | Pigramente signora | — |
| 1989 | Oltre l'Eden... | — |
| 1990 | Pazza idea eccetera eccetera... | — |
| 1994 | Ideogrammi | — |
| 1998 | Notti, guai e libertà | 7 |
| 2000 | Una donna da sognare | 6 |
| 2002 | Radio Station | 9 |
| 2004 | Nic-Unic | 14 |
| 2007 | Spero che ti piaccia ... pour toi | 46 |
Live albums
| Year | Title | ITA[2][3][4] |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Bye Bye Patty | 5 |
| 2001 | Patty Live '99 | — |
| 2009 | Live Arena di Verona - Sold Out | 14 |
Compilation albums
| Year | Title | ITA[2][4] |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Tutti i successi di Patty Pravo | — |
| 1973 | Canzone degli amanti | — |
| Poema degli occhi | — | |
| Valsinha | — | |
| 1976 | La magia di Patty Pravo | — |
| 1977 | I successi di Patty Pravo | — |
| Le più belle canzoni di Patty Pravo | — | |
| 1979 | Momenti stupendi | — |
| 1980 | Emozioni | — |
| Patty Pravo | — | |
| 1982 | Hit Parade International | — |
| Hit Parade International | — | |
| 1984 | Questione di cuore | — |
| Pazza idea | — | |
| 1985 | L'album di Patty Pravo | — |
| 1987 | Per una bambola | — |
| Sentimento | — | |
| Pigramente signora | — | |
| 1990 | I grandi successi di Patty Pravo | — |
| 1993 | I grandi successi | — |
| 1994 | I successi di Patty Pravo | — |
| 1995 | Pensiero stupendo | — |
| Pensieri stupendi | — | |
| 1996 | Superbest | — |
| 1997 | Divina | — |
| I capolavori | — | |
| Il paradiso | — | |
| Grande Patty | — | |
| 1998 | Non ti bastavo più | — |
| Gli anni 70 | — | |
| Aristocratica | — | |
| Le più belle canzoni di Patty Pravo | — | |
| Patty Pravo | — | |
| A modo mio e altri successi | — | |
| 1999 | I miti musica | — |
| 2000 | Patty Pravo (3 CD box) | — |
| Le canzoni d'amore | — | |
| Patty Pravo - Super Stars | — | |
| I grandi successi originali - Flashback | — | |
| 2001 | I mitici 45 | — |
| 2002 | 100% Patty | — |
| Pravo (3 CD box) | — | |
| 2003 | La signore della canzone | — |
| 2004 | Anni '70 | — |
| 2005 | Canzoni stupende | 32 |
| Le più belle canzoni di Patty Pravo | — | |
| 2006 | Superissimi Patty Pravo - Gli eroi del juke box | — |
| 2007 | I grandi successi (3 CD box) | — |
| Patty Pravo | 43 | |
| 2008 | Patty Pravo | — |
| A modo mio | — | |
| The Essential | — | |
| Amanti | — | |
| 2009 | Il meglio di Patty Pravo | 87 |
| Gli album originali (6 CD box) | — | |
| The Universal Music Collection (4 CD box) | — | |
| Collections | — | |
| La mia musica | — |
Singles
| Year | Title | ITA[3][5] | GER[6][7] | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | "Ragazzo triste"/"The Pied Piper" | 13 | — | Patty Pravo (1968 album) |
| 1967 | "Sto con te"/"Qui e là" | 39 | — | |
| "Se perdo te"/"Lettera a Gianni" | 18 | — | ||
| 1968 | "La bambola"/"Se c'è l'amore" | 1 | 35 | |
| "Gli occhi dell'amore"/"Sentimento" | 2 | — | Tutti i successi di Patty Pravo | |
| "Tripoli 1969"/"Lasciatemi amare chi voglio" | 4 | — | Concerto per Patty | |
| 1969 | "Il paradiso"/"Scende la notte sale la luna" | 8 | — | |
| "Concerto per Patty" | 18 | — | ||
| "Nel giardino dell'amore"/"Ballerina ballerina" | 16 | — | Tutti i successi di Patty Pravo | |
| 1970 | "La spada nel cuore"/"Roma è una prigione" | 5 | — | |
| "Per te"/"Il mio fiore nero" | 11 | — | Patty Pravo (1970 album) | |
| "La solitudine"/"1941" | 27 | — | ||
| "Non andare via"/"Un poco di pioggia" | 13 | — | Bravo Pravo | |
| "Tutt'al più"/"Chissà come finirò" | 4 | — | ||
| 1971 | "Love Story"/"Di vero in fondo" | 13 | — | Di vero in fondo |
| "Non ti bastavo più"/"Canzone degli amanti" | 6 | — | ||
| 1972 | "Io"/"Un po' di più" | — | — | Sì ... incoerenza |
| 1973 | "Pazza idea"/"Morire tra le viole" | 1 | — | Pazza idea |
| 1974 | "Come un Pierrot"/"La valigia blu" | 9 | — | Mai una signora |
| 1975 | "Incontro"/"Mercato dei fiori" | 6 | — | Incontro |
| 1976 | "Tanto"/"Io ti venderei" | 22 | — | Tanto |
| "Grand Hotel"/"Innamorata io" (1976 album) | 45 | — | Patty Pravo | |
| 1977 | "Tutto il mondo è casa mia"/"Da soli noi" | 3 | — | single only |
| 1978 | "Pensiero stupendo"/"Bello" | 2 | — | Miss Italia |
| 1979 | "Sentirti"/"Notti bianche" | — | — | |
| "Autostop"/"New York" | 13 | — | Munich Album | |
| 1984 | "Per una bambola"/"Viaggio" | 17 | — | Occulte persuasioni |
| 1985 | "Menù"/"Day by Day" | 22 | — | Per una bambola |
| 1987 | "Pigramente signora" | 24 | — | Pigramente signora |
| "Cantatto"/"So Fine So Nice" | 34 | — | ||
| 1995 | "I giorni dell'armonia"/"La vita"/"Sogni" | 12 | — | Ideogrammi |
| 1997 | "...e dimmi che non vuoi morire" | 2 | — | Bye Bye Patty |
| "Pensiero stupendo '97" | 5 | — | ||
| 1998 | "Les étrangers" | — | — | Notti, guai e libertà |
| "Strada per un'altra città" | — | — | ||
| "Emma Bovary" | — | — | ||
| 1999 | "Angelus" | — | — | |
| 2000 | "Una donna da sognare" | 11 | — | Una donna da sognare |
| "Una mattina d'estate" | — | — | ||
| "Se chiudi gli occhi" | — | — | ||
| 2002 | "L'immenso" | 25 | — | Radio Station |
| "Noi di là (Lagoinha)" | 32 | — | ||
| 2004 | "Che uomo sei" | 13 | — | Nic-Unic |
References
- ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 246. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- ^ a b c "Top Annuali Album". www.hitparadeitalia.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ^ a b c "Patty Pravo - Una donna da sognare". italiancharts.com. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
- ^ a b c "Patty Pravo - Music Charts". acharts.us. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
- ^ "Indice per Interprete: P". www.hitparadeitalia.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ^ "Chartverfolgung / Pravo, Patty / Single". www.musicline.de (in German). Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ^ "Liedsuche". www.musicline.de (in German). Retrieved 2011-02-06.