Bonnie Lynn Raitt was born on November 8, 1949, and is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. The daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt and his first wife, pianist Marjorie Haydock, she began playing guitar at an early age and later would become famous for her bottleneck-style guitar playing. In 1967, Raitt entered Harvard's Radcliffe College as a freshman, majoring in African Studies. One day, a friend told Raitt that blues promoter Dick Waterman was giving an interview at WHRB, Harvard's college radio station. An important figure in the blues revival of the 1960s, Waterman was also a resident of Cambridge. Raitt went to see Waterman, and the two soon became friends. Raitt eventually began playing folk and rhythm and blues clubs in the Boston area, performing alongside established blues legends such as Howlin' Wolf, Sippie Wallace, and Mississippi Fred McDowell, all of whom she met through Waterman. In 1970, while opening for McDowell at the Gaslight Cafe in New York, she was seen by a reporter from Newsweek Magazine, who began to spread word of her performance. Scouts from major record companies were soon attending her shows. She eventually accepted an offer with Warner Bros. who soon released her debut album, "Bonnie Raitt," in 1971. It wouldn't be until 1977 that Raitt got her first commercial breakthrough with "Sweet Forgiveness" that yielded a hit single in her cover of Del Shannon's "Runaway." After nearly 20 years, Bonnie Raitt achieved belated commercial success with her tenth album, "Nick of Time." Released in 1989, "Nick of Time" went to the top of the U.S. charts following Raitt's Grammy sweep in early 1990. Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career, is a lifelong political activist, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.

Album:

• Bonnie Raitt (1971)
• Give It Up (1972)
• Takin' My Time (1973)
• Streetlights (1974)
• Home Plate (1975)
• Sweet Forgiveness (1977)
• The Glow (1979)
• Green Light (1982)
• Nine Lives (1986)
• Nick of Time (1989)
• Luck of the Draw (1991)
• Longing in Their Hearts (1994)
• Fundamental (1998)
• Silver Lining (2002)
• Souls Alike (2005)
• Slipstream (2012)

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