Nigerian-born Patti Boulaye has had a unique life - she has lived through one of the great genocides of the 20th century to become a singer, actress, model, activist and fundraiser; a career propelled by controversy, determination, faith, and willpower. Patricia Ngozi Ebigwei came into this world on the move, born in 1954 in a taxicab between two villages in the Bendel Igbo region of rural Nigeria. One of 8 children, she grew up in the middle of the horrific Biafran civil war, witnessing such horrors as a man running down the street with his head cut off and stepping around fresh bodies as her family walked home from church.