


19 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as No. Bonoff is best known as a songwriter, but she is also noted for her hit recording of " Personally", which became a No. Her other albums include Restless Nights (1979), Wild Heart of the Young (1982), New World (1988) and All My Life (a greatest hits collection) in 1999. In her early career, Bonoff sang background vocals for Ronstadt and Wendy Waldman before releasing her debut album in 1977, titled Karla Bonoff. One of her mother's grandmothers was born in Pennsylvania to Hungarian Jewish parents, while her mother's other grandparents were born in Austria and Germany. Her paternal great-grandparents and one of her maternal great-grandfathers were immigrants from the Russian Empire. JSTOR ( July 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īonoff was born to Chester and Shirley ( née Kahane) Bonoff, and named after her paternal grandfather, Karl Bonoff.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification.
