Bonnie Raitt

To me Bonnie Raitt is nothing less than a goddess of American roots music. Raised in California and educated at a top-tier school, she chose blues and slide guitar over any easier path, and that choice still thrills me. Her voice, steeped in rock, blues, country, and folk, only deepened with age. Grammys, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kennedy Center Honors-the accolades confirm her stature. But what truly wins me over is not the hardware; it is the crying tone of her slide guitar, that lived-in ache no shortcut can manufacture. She remains, for me, a lasting inspiration.

Name (English)

Bonnie Raitt

Name (Japanese)

ボニー・レイット

Reading

ぼにー・れいっと

Born

November 8, 1949 (age 76)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

Origin

Burbank, California, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / guitarist / musician

University

Radcliffe College

Awards & achievements

• 1992 MusiCares Person of the Year
• 2012 Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• honorary doctor of the Berklee College of Music
• 2003 Grammy Award for Song of the Year
• 2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Maple Blues Awards
• 2024 Kennedy Center Honors

• Official sitehttps://www.bonnieraitt.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bonnieraittofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/TheBonnieRaitt
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20Raitt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%83%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234693

Tags

• California
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• guitarist

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.