Patricia Ann Cole, known professionally as P.P. Arnold (born October 3, 1946), is an American soul singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom from the 1960s onwards. Arnold was born into a family of gospel singers, Arnold performed as a vocal soloist for the first time when she was four years old. Her family lived in the African-American Watts ghetto of Los Angeles. Arnold married early and had two children, Kevin and Debbie. She worked two jobs