Karla Bonoff
Musician · b. 1951 · Los Angeles, California
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Karla Bonoff is a Southern California-born singer-songwriter whose mid-1970s songs were carried into the country and folk-rock canons by Linda Ronstadt, Wynonna Judd, Bonnie Raitt, and Alison Krauss. Her song “All My Life,” recorded as a duet by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville, won the 1991 Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
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- Born December 27, 1951, in Los Angeles, California.
- Was writing songs by fifteen; came up in the late-1960s Troubadour and Ash Grove folk scene with Andrew Gold, Wendy Waldman, and the future members of Bryndle.
- Linda Ronstadt cut three Bonoff songs on her 1976 Hasten Down the Wind, including “Someone to Lay Down Beside Me” and “Lose Again.”
- Signed to Columbia Records as a solo artist in 1977.
- Wrote “All My Life”; Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville’s 1989 duet recording won the 1991 Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group.
- Songs have been recorded by Wynonna Judd, Bonnie Raitt, Trisha Yearwood, and Alison Krauss.
