She is a singer-songwriter and actress born in Alton,
Ilinois, who grew up in East St. Louis and began professionally singing
when she was fourteen years old.She was heard as a backing singer for blues artists that included
Little Milton, Albert King and Fontella Bass and gained attention as a
history maker as being the first white Ikette for Ike & Tina Turner.Wanting to spread her wings she
moved to Los Angeles, met up with Delaney Bramlett who was with The
Shindogs and married him just days after their first meeting in 1967.Their
daughter Bekka who was born the
following year is herself an extremely successful singer.She and
her husband became the duo Delaney & Bonnie who became one of
the first successful white R&B acts and soon they would tour
with Eric Clapton and perform with artists such as Dave Mason, Rita
Coolidge
, Leon
Russell, Duane Allman, John
Lennon and George
Harrison
where they would be known as Delaney & Bonnie &
Friends.Seeing success in the
charts the songs they are most known for now are possible "Only You Know
and I Know" and "Never-Ending Song of Love".Also following a solo career she
and Leon
Russell co-wrote
the song "Give Peace a Chance" and "Groupie" which would change it's name
to "Superstar" and be a huge 1971 hit for The Carpenters.She and Delaney divorced in 1973
but she has since been seen working regularly with other artists
such as Dwight Yoakam, Stephen Stills, Jimmy
Buffett , Delbert McClinton, Joe
Cocker, Steve
Cropper , Carly
Simon
, Little Feat, Jimmy Hall, The Allman Brothers (where
she became known as "The Allman Sister") and The Average White Band.The many albums she has been heard
on include her own Still the Same, Roots, Blues & Jazz, Sweet Bonnie
Bramlett and Step by Step, Home, Together and On Tour
With Eric Clapton as Delaney & Bonnie and she also features on Enlightened
Rogue by The Allman Brothers, Rock My Soul by Elvin Bishop, One
Particular Harbour by Jimmy
Buffett , Complete Clapton by Eric
Clapton, Stingray by Joe Cocker, Inside the Fire by Rita
Coolidge ,
Night After Night by Steve
Cropper , Backstreets of Desire by Willy
DeVille
, Lights in the World by Joe
English , Stories We Could
Tell by The Everly Brothers, White Shoes by Emmylou Harris, Sometime
in New York City by John
Lennon , Leon
Russell, Rocking Across
the Country by Earl
Scruggs , Honk Tonk Heroes by Billy
Joe Shaver
, No Secrets by Carly
Simon , Born to Boogie by Hank
Williams Jr. and Shaking the Cage by The Zoo. She moved into the realms of gospel
music in the 1980s and in 1988 would marry the producer Danny Sheridan and
with him would become with the band Bandaloo Doctors.They were given much attention by
television producers and soon were regulars in the series Roseanne
where she would play the part of Roseanne's co-worker, Bonnie.No stranger to acting she had
already been in the 1970s movies Vanishing Point and Catch My
Soul, the 1980s The Doors, guest starred in the TV series Fame
and went on to appear in the musical stage show Cowboy Cafi and in the
2006 The Guardian, which starred Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher.Her marriage to Danny Sheridan
ended in the late 1990s
and she moved to Nashville in 1999 and continues to tour and record.
