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Bonnie Raitt: Music
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Raitt was born into an entertainment family, the creative energy evident in her genes, her father the endeared Broadway star, John Raitt and her mother a noted pianist and singer. When she was a small girl of eight, she received her first guitar and immediately began playing. After spending her childhood on the west coast, Raitt headed to the storied city of Boston for her university years, where she emerged herself in both her studies and in folk music. She spent her off time singing in local coffeehouses, and after her junior year traded her schoolbooks in for her guitar, dropping out of school and heading on the road. Raitt opened for such blues’ legends as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, which gave her valuable exposure to industry insiders.
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Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is a nine-time Grammy award-winning American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt. Raitt began playing guitar at an early age, something not a lot of her high school girlfriends did.
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Raitt was born in Burbank, California, and attended Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a child in summer camp, Raitt (whose father, John Raitt, was a musical-comedy star) discovered the protest folk music of Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. She taught herself to play the guitar by listening to records of such blues musicians as Mississippi John Hurt. During a hiatus from college, Raitt worked for a Quaker organization in Philadelphia, Pennysylvania, and ... performed in small coffeehouses, where she met some of her blues heroes such as Son House and John Lee Hooker.
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That Bonnie Raitt has become one of America’s most celebrated, enduring musicians must come as little surprise to those who know the fiery redhead. After all, Raitt is far more than a musician: she’s a Harvard-Ratcliff educated political activist with the canny ability to pen lyrics that touch her audiences.
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Prior to Nick of Time, Bonnie Raitt had been a reliable cult artist, delivering a string of solid records that were moderate successes and usually musically satisfying. From her 1971 debut through 1982's ...Read full review
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Australian Country Music Artist Graeme Connors has said Bonnie Raitt does something with a lyric no one else can do, she bends it and twists it right into your heart. (ABC Radio NSW Australia interview with Interviewer Chris Coleman on 18 January 2007) [1]
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