Raitt’s parents were Quakers and peace activists. Her mother, Marjorie, was a pianist and her father’s musical director. (They divorced in 1971.) Bonnie was the middle of three children ...

Let's get back to Terry's 1996 interview with Bonnie Raitt, who is one of this year's Kennedy Center honorees. She grew up listening to Broadway songs. Her father, John Raitt, was a star in the ...

A few months ago, Bonnie Raitt received a note from ... and she and her father, Broadway singer John Raitt, attended the very first ceremony, in 1978, when the likes of Fred Astaire and Richard ...

Bonnie Raitt by Shervin Lainez On Just Like That ... She comes from a lineage of lifers, working till the end, like her father, actor and singer John Raitt, who continued to perform through ...

Bonnie Raitt was almost a folk singer ... Encouraged in a musical home where "my mother was my father's accompanist, and we'd all sit around singing together," plus five years of piano lessons ...

Bonnie Raitt's 1989 hit "Thing Called Love" is just ... Raitt grew up in a musical household in Southern California, influenced by her father, Broadway star John Raitt, and her mother, singer ...

Bonnie Raitt is a perfect example of an incendiary ... Raitt was inspired by a car trip with her father, the legendary actor John Raitt, to write the second verse: I see my folks are getting ...

Midway through a recent Bonnie Raitt concert, a woman shouted “Play ... Tilbrook says that thinking back to his father’s love of jazz, he is now “more playful vocally than I’ve ever ...