I didn´t know who Patti was until I started to visit this blog a few years ago. She seems to be a name in America (despite noaving hits) but she is not known by the general public anywhere else. People know Aretha, Barbra, Donna Summer and more (and obviously the global megastars that Whitney, Mariah ad Celine became in more recent times), but not Patti. I have to say the first time I watched her was on youtube performing Whitney´s version of All the Man that I need, and I found it hilarious and terrible. I´ve learnt to understandher voice and it really is an instrument,but her tone is annoying and I understand why she never became mainstream. She has so much power, that´s why she didn´t lose her voice. That, and the fact that global megastars go thrug certain things that Patti didn´t have to endure of course.