Patricia Paradise was born near Los Angeles on October 28th, 1961. She
was immediately given away for adoption by foster parents. As her
childhood sweetheart gets brutally killed, Patricia left her unhappy
home at age 16 for good. She discovers her love of singing and then has
only one aim in mind: to achieve fame as a singer. She battles on for
two years in dubious bars in Chicago and then lands, quite by accident,
in far-away Las Vegas.
In 1983, however, Patricia was discovered by Katherine Hiller, who is
seriously managing her to astounding success, making her breakthrough
as a singer and composer. Concert tours throughout the USA and Asia
bring her phenomenal success and an almost religious crowd of
followers. She marries the Las Vegas-businessman, Francis Hiller, on
May 5th, 1987. Patricia then becomes the victim of at attempted
assassination in the Philippines; but, as if by a miracle, she
recovers. At the height of her success, to everyone's surprise,
Patricia announces in March 1992 that she is retiring from show
business. She has enough of being constantly in the limelight and now
longs for nothing more than to have children. Her professional activity
shifts towards writing and composing, mostly in the background,
anonymously. Unintentionally, Patricia keeps making headlines, as she
is in contact with many leading personalities, including ex-President
Bill Clinton, Madonna, Steven Spielberg, Britney Spears, Elizabeth
Taylor, Michael Jackson, Mutter Theresa, Princess Diana, Nelson
Mandela, Cher, Kurt Cobain, the Dalai Lama, and Pope John Paul II.
In Hollywood the director, Roger Steinmann, has started making a film
about her life, but the work has been interrupted by the tragic death
of Ray Walston, the famous star as the "Uncle from Mars", on January
1st, 2001. While work is restarting on the film with a new cast,
Patricia is doing research on materialism in the Western world. This
already eagerly awaited but controversial book is scheduled for
presentation by Patricia in the fall of 2001 at the Frankfurter
Buchmesse.
