Patti Boulaye

Nigerian-born Patti Boulaye has had a unique life: she has lived through one of the great genocides of the 20th century to become a singer, actress, model, activist, and fundraiser -- a career propelled by controversy, determination, faith, and willpower. Patricia Ngozi Ebigwei came into this world on the move, born in 1954 in a taxicab between two villages in the Bendel Igbo region of rural Nigeria. One of eight children, she grew up in the middle of the horrific Biafran civil war, witnessing such horrors as a man running down the street with his head cut off and stepping aro...