Nr. 34 – Bonnie Raitt

American blues singer Bonnie Raitt was born in California in a home where both parents were musicians. She began playing guitar at an early age and her parents always encouraged her to perform for the family, yet she has said that she never meant to make music for a living. Being a white woman she never expected that the opportunities for playing blues would come, but while in collage she got to know Dick Waterman (an important figure in the development and recording of blues) after he did an interview on the collage radio station. Through Waterman, Raitt got even more connections among blues artists and musicians and eventually she herself became an acclaimed blues artist. Why is she cool? In a genre dominated by black men Raitt, being a young white girl, managed to make herself a name in the business. That’s cool.