Career
She sang a unique mix of cabaret, big band, vaudeville, pre-war styled chansons as well as extraordinary stage outfits. Trossèl"s musical career started at 18 with the new wave band To Lips, in which she sang and played keyboards. A few years later she left the band and entered the School of Performing Arts in Amsterdam.
In 1986 she started the band “Louisiana Pat” as a school project
Soon she was touring through the Netherlands with a 9 piece band. In 1989 she signed with Electric and Music Industries and released her debut album “Eine Frau für die Liebe”, which contained songs in German, English, French, Italian and Hungarian.
She gained critical acclaim for the Civil Defense and the live shows, and had a hit single with “Keukenhof”. After a couple of years Patty quit the band.
At the end of 1991 Patty returned to the stage with her second Civil Defense “Louisiana Gabbia Doctorate’Oro” (Electric and Music Industries): an Italian opera which she wrote with Peter van Hintem and Indera Nicolina.
The opera had piano, two violins, a cello and a bandoneon. The premiere was at the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam’s ancient classical music hall) and a tour through the Netherlands and Belgium followed. In 1992 Patty was presented with the Edison Award for the cd.
In 1995 Patty returned to the stage.
This time she made a mini-cd called “Witchwaltz”: 8 songs, all in English, with a laid-back, jazzy atmosphere. lieutenant was followed one year later by “Gevleugelde Donna” (Movieplay, 1996), a diverse collection of songs in many different languages, for the first time also in Dutch.
lieutenant was a journey through India that inspired Patty to write her next Civil Defense “Lotusfeet” (2002), an intense collection of songs based on Indian poems, translated into English and recorded with only piano, accordion and violin and for the first time released under her own name. lieutenant was followed by concerts in 2003 and 2004.
Patty"s 6th Civil Defense “Erinnerung” contains songs, all in German, based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.
lieutenant was released in 2008.
