佩·班娜塔，这位美丽、智慧又拥有高亢嗓音的摇滚女歌手，于80、90年代可谓红遍全世界，与Joan Jett并称美国两大摇滚超级女将，而且至今他们的新专辑都有相当辉煌的销售数字，如果没有这位葛莱美奖最佳摇滚女歌手，英美流行乐坛誓必失色不少，时光跨入21世纪，Pat Benatar的风潮誓必沿烧下去。 　　佩特·班纳塔（Pat Benatar）(本名 Patricia Mae Andrzejewski，1953年1月10日－) 是获得四次格莱美奖的美国摇滚女歌手，并拥有六张白金，四张金唱片的纪录。班纳塔于2004年获得进入摇滚名人堂的资格。 　　Pat Benatar was born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City. Her mother, Mildred (née Knapp), was a beautician, and her father, Andrew Andrzejewski, was a sheet-metal worker.Her father was of Polish descent and her mother was of German, English, and Irish ancestry. Her family moved to North Hamilton Avenue in Lindenhurst, New York, a village in the Long Island town of Babylon. 　　Benatar became interested in theater and began voice lessons, singing her first solo at the age of eight, at Daniel Street Elementary School, a song called "It Must Be Spring".citation needed At Lindenhurst Senior High School (1967–1971), she participated in musical theater, playing Queen Guinevere in the school production of Camelot, marching in the homecoming parade, singing at the annual Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony, and performing a solo of "The Christmas Song" on a holiday recording of the Lindenhurst High School Choir her senior year.