Attended Harvard: 1967-1970
While at the Ivy, Bonnie Raitt studied social relations and African studies, and she became very involved in the culturally rich music and political scenes of 1960s Cambridge.
"I couldn't wait to get back to where there were folkies and the antiwar and civil rights movements," she said of her time at Harvard. "There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge."
But three years after entering college, she left Harvard to pursue her music career full time. Soon after that, she released her first album.
Raitt has released 19 albums over the past 40-plus years and won 10 Grammys. Rolling Stone awarded Raitt as 50th on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers Of All Time." She has continued to be involved in nonprofits all over the world, specifically involving social justice, human rights, and music education.