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Vivienne Patricia "Patti" Scialfa ("SKAL-fah"){{fact|date=June 2008 (born July 29 1953) is an United States|American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for being a bandmate, and later wife, of rock star Bruce Springsteen.

Early life
Scialfa was born in Deal, New Jersey. She was the middle child of Joseph Scialfa and Patricia (nee Morris) Scialfa. She also has half-siblings from her father's second marriage. Her father was a successful local entrepreneur, who started with a single television store and became a real estate developer.

Scialfa was writing songs from an early age and first worked professionally as a back-up singer for New Jersey bar bands after she completed high school. In 1994, she stated in a ''Lear's Magazine'' interview that she had little talent for anything but music and that she attended college as a way to further her ambitions as a performer while also satisfying parental expectations. She has a music degree from New York University, earned after she transferred from the University of Miami's highly-respected jazz conservatory.

Music career
While in college, Scialfa was submitting original material to other artists in the hope that it would be recorded. However, none of her songs was recorded, and after graduating, Scialfa worked as a busking|busker and waitress in Greenwich Village. Together with Soozie... read all