Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945, in Lafayette, Tennessee) is an American singer whose musical career has almost entirely overshadowed her activity as a painter. The sources available say little about her visual work: she is recorded as having painted and exhibited her artwork until 2017, when she lived in Fallbrook, a small town south of California.
Her songs appeared on Billboard's pop, country, adult contemporary and jazz charts during the 1970s and 1980s, and she won two Grammy Awards with Kris Kristofferson, to whom she was married from 1973 to 1980. Earlier she had sung backing vocals for artists such as Joe Cocker and Leon Russell, and in 1997 she co-founded Walela, a trio devoted to Native American music. Her memoir, Delta Lady: A Memoir, was published in 2016.
No documented information exists about her technique, her series or her specific exhibitions, so it is not possible to describe a painting style or name particular works of hers. Her legacy rests mainly on music, and her place in an encyclopedia of painting reflects her visual work, which the sources mention only briefly.