Pat Benatar's 2 Daughters: All About Haley and Hana

Mar. 15, 2025

Pat Benatar with her children and husband.Photo: Hailey Giralado Instagram

Pat Benatar may have famously sung about how “Love Is a Battlefield” — but her real-life romance reads more like a fairy tale.

Benatar first met guitarist Neil Giraldo in 1979 when he came to her rehearsal space shortly after she had signed her first record deal. For Benatar, it was love at first sight.

“I thought, Girl, you have just seen the father of your children,” Benatarwrote in her 2010 autobiographyBetween a Heart and a Rock Place.

And she was right: Benatar and Giraldo became partners both professionally and personally, with him serving as her lead guitarist and the two marrying in 1982. Three years later, the rocker couple became parents for the first time when their daughter Haley Giraldo was born in February 1985. Their second child, daughter Hana Giraldo, was born nine years later in March 1994.

“I’ve never felt happier in my entire life,” Benatartold theChicago Tribunewhen she was pregnant with Haley.

Though Benatar was thrilled to become a mother, her record label execs were less than pleased. Benatar recalled to PEOPLE how they pressured her tohide her pregnanciesbecause they didn’t fit her sexy image.

But the Grammy winner didn’t think twice about focusing on motherhood. “I knew it was the right thing,” Benatar told PEOPLE in 2010.

The rock legendelaborated toSPIN magazine: “You have to be ready for kids, because you have to give up everything, every selfish part of you. And in return … unconditional love … It’s such a pure love.”

Nowadays, Benatar — who wasinducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Famein November 2022 — is still balancing motherhood (and grandmotherhood) and her career.

Here’s everything to know about Pat Benatar’s two daughters.

Haley Giraldo Williams, 40

A selfie of Haley Giraldo.Haley Giraldo Instagram

Haley Giraldo Instagram

Benatargave birthto her first child, a daughter named Haley Egeana Giraldo, on Feb. 16, 1985, in Los Angeles. At the time, the rock singer called Haley’s birth “the biggest event of her life.”

As a teenager, Haley appeared to be following in the footsteps of her musician parents when she formed a girl group named Glo. The pop group evenwent on the roadwith Benatar in the summer of 2001, serving as her opening act. But touring with her 16-year-old daughter proved to be “a challenge” for Benatar, who told PEOPLE they had “opposite interests.”

“Her voice is much lower than mine,” Benatar told PEOPLE about Haley’s singing. “Mine is like a big, belting train wreck, and hers is much subtler.”

Haley Giraldo and Pat Benatar.Haley Giraldo Instagram

For Haley, becoming a mother only deepened her relationship with her own mom. “I didn’t think we could be closer than we already are, but now it’s on a different level,” shewrote on Instagramin April 2018.

And that’s not the only time Haley has expressed her love for Benatar on social media. She penned a sweet message to Benatar on her birthday in January 2020. “It’s my very favorite person’s birthday today, and I could not be more grateful to call this superhero of a woman my mom,” Haleywrote in the caption. “Thank you for just being you. Those of you who know my mom, know how truly special she is…an angel on this earth. No matter how much I say I love you, I always love you more than that.”

She alsoshared a Mother’s Day tributeto Benatar in 2021: “I am so forever grateful for my amazing mother who loved us so hard and put us first always.”

Hana Juliana Giraldo, 31

Hana Giraldo.Hana Giraldo Instagram

Hana Giraldo Instagram

Nine years after Haley was born, Benatar gave birth to her second daughter — named Hana Juliana Giraldo — on March 12, 1994. Though born in L.A., Hana was named after the famous eastern shores of Maui and would eventually live there as a child with her family, shetoldLoopmagazinein 2020.

She continued, “I didn’t want to make things harder on my family so I just didn’t say anything and I just stuck it out … I internalized a lot.”

The experience has led her to become an advocate for bullying victims, serving as an ambassador for the Boo2Bullying, a youth empowerment organization that focuses its efforts on anti-bullying and suicide prevention. Hana has also shared videos on her social media accounts to connect with fellow victims of bullying in an effort to make them feel less alone.

“I know what it feels like to feel uncomfortable. I know what it feels like to feel like you don’t fit in,“she said in a videoon her YouTube channel. “I know what it feels like to wanna give up … don’t give up. The worst thing you can do is give up.”

Pat Benatar, Hana Giraldo and Neil Giraldo in 2016.Lester Cohen/Getty

Today, Hana is a social media influencer with millions of followers across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. She’s paid tribute to her rock star mother on both Instagram and TikTok (dressing up to look like Benatarandsinging her hit “Heartbreaker”) — but Hana is best known for her viral comedy skits, which she’s been creating since she was a kid.

“I had basically been making videos my whole life. When I was on tour with my mom, I had nothing to do but make these comedy videos,” she shared withLoop.

In addition to her social media career, Hana has also worked in fashion (even designing tour merchandise for her mother) and had a brief stint on reality television,appearing on the 2022 E! seriesRelatively Famous: Ranch Rules.She’s alsoworking on her own music, according to her Instagram — just like her rocker parents. “She’s one of my biggest role models in the world,” Hanatold Hollywood Lifeabout her mother in 2022.

“The tough skin I have now is from being her daughter.”

source: people.com