Nicoletta Strambelli, known to all as Patty Pravo, will turn seventy on April 9th.
Born in Venice, she attended the Conservatory of her city in composition and piano courses and then settled in Rome after returning from Great Britain. In the meantime, the Piper Club was born in Rome, a place where she became a real star. She soon found herself in the RCA studios recording “Ragazzo triste”, her first album, the Italian version of “But you're mine”. An overwhelming success: her voice renewed the Italian song. A few appearances on TV and the success of the record was confirmed. The new 45 rpm “Sto con te” and “Qui e là” sold out like hotcakes, the same fate, in the Seventies, for “Tu mi fai girar” or “Pazza idea”. At the height of her success, there was no shortage of cinematic proposals, including a film inspired by her story and the climate of those years entitled “L'immensità (La ragazza del Piper)”. Back in vogue in 1990 by winning “Una Rotonda Sul Mare” and recording a new album with her hits revisited and reinterpreted in a modern key. In 1994 she recorded a new work in Beijing: “Ideogrammi”, sung in Italian, Chinese, French and with the use of invented “slang”, drawing inspiration from local dialects.
A new break for Patty Pravo until 1997, when at the Sanremo Festival, she sings “Dimmi che non vuoi morire”, written by Vasco Rossi. With the following album “Notte, guai e libertà” she wins the public back. After a further collaboration with Vasco Rossi in the album “Una donna da sognare”, in 2002 she returns to Sanremo with “L'immenso” and a new album: “Radio station”. On 2 October 2007 the book “Bla, bla, bla…”, an autobiography written with Massimo Cotto, is released in bookstores. In November 2007 the album “Spero che ti piacere…Pour toi…” is published, a tribute by the Venetian singer to the unforgettable Dalida, twenty years after her death. In 2008, the single “La bambola” was released to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of its release and in February of the following year, she took part in the 2009 Sanremo Festival with the song “E io un giorno verrò là”, composed by the young Andrea Cutri. The unreleased song from Sanremo was included in the double album Live. She returned to Sanremo 2011 with the song “Il vento e le rose” and in 2016, for the tenth time, with the song “Cieli immensi”.
Patty Pravo's life is full, full of the most diverse experiences: a free childhood, her mother met late, success, drugs and Jimi Hendrix. It is the full life of a timeless star, whose music crosses many generations.
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