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Pat Benatar 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, Pat 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.

Pat Benatar is known for her operatic voice and 'tough' attitude. She won four consecutive Grammy Awards for "Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female" from 1980 to 1983, and was nominated four additional times in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989.