Patty Pravo

Charismatic and charming, Patty Pravo has passed through forty years of Italian pop music, changing her image -- first beat queenie, then elegant and provoking chanteuse -- but never compromising an unique personality. Born in Venice 9 April, 1948, Nicoletta Strambelli was bred in an extremely intellectual environment, she had the chance -- the acquaitances of her family including the poet Ezra Pound and cardinal Angelo Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII. At the age of 17 she escaped to Rome, where she soon became a dancer in the famous Piper Club. Its owner, Alberigo Croce...