Blues singer-songwriter and slide guitar player from the United States
Daughter of John Raitt and Marjorie Haydock.
(3 May 1997) Awarded the Harvard Arts Medal.
Born at 4:08pm-PST.
Blues singer-songwriter and slide guitar player.
(21 February 1990) Dominated the Grammy ceremonies in Los Angeles, winning four awards for her tenth album: Album of the Year (for "Nick of Time"); Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female; Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female, and Best Traditional Blues Recording (for her duet with John Lee Hooker : "Im in the Mood").
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2010.
Announced plans to divorce Michael OKeefe on November 9, 1999.
Ranked #4 on VH1s 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.
In fall 2004, she participated in the Vote for Change concert tour organized to encourage the defeat of George W. Bush in the U.S. presidential election.
Sister of Steven Raitt and David Raitt.
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1750 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
While living in one of the West Hollywood apartment complexes directly behind Cherokee Recording Studios, she got backup singing recording gigs with music producers Bruce Robb and Steve Cropper.
Her older brother Steven James Raitt (born June 19, 1947) died after an eight-year battle with brain cancer on April 4, 2009 in Rio Linda, California. A talented musician himself, he was a member of a group called the T.C. Jammers.
Her nephew is the special effects modeler-animator Bay Raitt , creator of the character Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies.
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There,was just cool and uncool.
I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart,grow fonder.
We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and,cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I,knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that,chance to fall apart.
Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism. .
