Bonnie Raitt is an American singer‑songwriter, slide guitarist, and roots‑rock icon, born in 1949 in Burbank, California. Emerging in the early 1970s, she built a reputation as a blues‑rooted guitarist with exceptional interpretive skill, blending blues, rock, folk, country, and R&B into a singular style defined by emotional restraint and lyrical truth. After years as a critically admired cult artist, she reached commercial superstardom with Nick of Time (1989), which topped the Billboard 200 and won Grammy Album of the Year.
Raitt is widely regarded as one of the greatest vocal interpreters and slide guitarists of her generation. Her technique and phrasing bridge Delta blues tradition with modern songwriting, while her career has been marked by integrity, political activism, and artistic persistence. She has won 13 competitive Grammy Awards, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (2000), honored with the Billboard Women in Music Icon Award, and named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2024.
For 2026, Bonnie Raitt is in full touring stride, announcing and repeatedly expanding one of her largest North American tours in years. The “Bonnie Raitt Live 2026” run spans May through October, covering the U.S. West Coast, Midwest, Mountain States, Canada, and multiple California residencies, with further expansions added due to demand. She is joined throughout the tour by Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, longtime collaborators whose New Orleans influenced sound complements Raitt’s blues foundation.
