Patty Pravo
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 pop
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 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
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. In 2011 she participated - for the eighth time - in the Italian song contest, the Sanremo Music Festival.

Biography

Strambelli studied at the conservatory institute
Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia
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 of Benedetto Marcello
Benedetto Marcello
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 and was acquainted with American poet Ezra Pound
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 and with Angelo Roncalli (Pope John XXIII). At the age of fifteen, she left home to live in London
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 and then Rome
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 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
But You're Mine
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" by Sonny & Cher
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. It was the first pop song broadcast on Vatican Radio
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.

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
Paul Korda
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), "La bambola" ("The Doll", 1968, "Sentimento" ("Feeling", 1968), "Il paradiso" ("Heaven", 1969, written by Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti
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), "La solitudine" ("The Loneliness", with Robert Charlebois
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) "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
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.

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
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, 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
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 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
Vasco Rossi
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.

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
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 to Dalida
Dalida
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, 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
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, Todd Rundgren
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 and Nathan East
Nathan East
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. In 2011 she releases the album "Nella terra dei pinguini" ("In the Land of the Penguins") recorded with young producer Diego Calvetti.

Studio albums

Year Title ITA
Federation of the Italian Music Industry
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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
Federation of the Italian Music Industry
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1997 Bye Bye Patty 5
2001 Patty Live '99
2009 Live Arena di Verona - Sold Out 14

Compilation albums

Year Title ITA
Federation of the Italian Music Industry
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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
Federation of the Italian Music Industry
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GER
Media Control Charts
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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

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