If you were a teenager hoping to impress singer Bonnie Raitt, you were finished before you even started. Because when she was a kid there was no way you could compete with her father, Broadway singing star John Raitt.

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"When you have a powerful, accomplished father, no 15-year-old is going to hold up. As you get older, it's even worse," the blues singer says in USA WEEKEND. Father and daughter are quoted in a Fathers' Day interview."The standard dad looked more like Fred Mertz than Jim Rockford. My dad looked like a star."

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