Singer/songwriter Karla Bonoff grew up in Los Angeles and briefly
attended UCLA. Emerging from the Monday night hootenanny scene at the
Troubadour nightclub, she was a member of Bryndle, a folk-rock group
also featuring Wendy Waldman, Andrew Gold, and Kenny Edwards, that
formed in 1969, signed to A&M, and cut an album that was never
released. Edwards, a former member of the Stone Poneys (a band
featuring Linda Ronstadt), and Gold were later part of Ronstadt's
backing band, and they brought Bonoff to her attention. Ronstadt
recorded three of Bonoff's songs on her 1976 album, Hasten Down the
Wind, leading to a recording contract for Bonoff and the release of
three albums on Columbia Records, the last of which, Wild Heart of the
Young (1982), featured the Top 40 hit "Personally." Bonoff worked on
movie soundtracks during the '80s, notably on Footloose (1984) and
About Last Night (1986). She released her fourth album, New World, in
1988.
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