Patty Pravo  Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli on 9 April 1948) is an Italian singer. She debuted in 1966 and remained most successful commercially for the rest of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Having suffered a decline in popularity in the following decade, she experienced a career revival in the late 1990s and reinstated her position on Italian music charts. Her most popular songs include "La bambola" (1968), "Pazza idea" (1973), "Pensiero stupendo" (1978) and "...E dimmi che non vuoi morire" (1997). She scored fourteen top 10 albums (including three number ones) and fourteen top 10 singles (including two number ones) in her native Italy. Pravo participated at the Sanremo Music Festival ten times, most recently in 2019, and has won three critics' awards "Mia Martini' at the festival. She also performed twelve times at the Festivalbar. Patty Pravo is reportedly the third best-selling Italian artist of all time, after Mina and Adriano Celentano, having sold more than 110 million records as of 2014. Strambelli studied at the conservatory institute Benedetto Marcello and was acquainted with American poet Ezra Pound and the future Pope John XXIII. At the age of fifteen she left home to live in London and then Rome, where she began her career singing in the Piper Club. In 1966, Patty released her first single, "Ragazzo triste" (English: "Sad Boy"), the Italian version of the song "But You're Mine" by Sonny & Cher. It was met with chart success and would later become the first pop song broadcast on Vatican Radio. Pravo released another popular single in 1967, "Se perdo te" ("If I Lose You"), written by English songwriter Paul Korda and originally performed by P. P. Arnold. In 1968, Pravo released what would become one of her most popular singles and a number 1 hit, "La bambola" ("The Doll"), as well as her self-titled debut album. The LP topped the Italian albums chart and "La bambola" was awarded a gold disc. This success was followed another popular single, featuring songs "Gli occhi dell'amore" ("The Eyes of Love") and "Sentimento" ("Feeling"). Pravo's second album, "Concerto per Patty", was released in 1969 and included more high-charting singles: "Tripoli 1969" and "Il paradiso" ("Paradise"), the latter written by Lucio Battisti and performed at Festivalbar.