Karla Bonoff

Karla Bonoff is one of those artists who never quite got the spotlight she deserved as a performer, but her fingerprints are all over some of the most beloved songs of the 1970s and 80s. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she came up through the Troubadour scene alongside the Eagles and Jackson Browne, and Linda Ronstadt famously covered her songs and helped launch her profile. "Isn't It Always Love," "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me," "Home" — these are genuinely beautiful, emotionally honest songs that hold up decades later. Bonnie Raitt, Trisha Yearwood, and Wynonna Judd all found material in her catalog, which tells you everything about the quality of her writing. Her own records have this warm, understated California folk-pop quality that rewards repeated listening. She's a songwriter's songwriter, and if you haven't dug into her own albums, you're missing something real.

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Name (English)

Karla Bonoff

Name (Japanese)

カーラ・ボノフ

Reading

かーら・ぼのふ

Born

December 27, 1951 (age 74)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

singer / singer-songwriter / composer / Liedermacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

High school

University High School

University

University High School

• Official sitehttps://www.karlabonoff.com
• Xhttps://x.com/karlabonoff
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla%20Bonoff
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%8E%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q293232

Tags

• California
• singer
• singer-songwriter
• composer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.