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| Birth name | Linda Maria Ronstadt[1] |
| Born | July 15, 1946 Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1965–2011 |
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Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music.
Ronstadt has earned 11 Grammy Awards,[3] three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014.[4] On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities.[5][16] In 2019, she received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio.[17][18] Ronstadt was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.
Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. She charted 38 US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40, ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one ("You're No Good"). Ronstadt also charted in UK as two of her duets, "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram and "Don't Know Much" with Aaron Neville, peaked at numbers 8 and 2 respectively and the single "Blue Bayou" reached number 35 on the UK Singles charts.[19][20] She has charted 36 albums, ten top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop Album Chart.[citation needed] Ronstadt has lent her voice to over 120 albums, collaborating with artists in many genres, including: Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine,[21] Frank Zappa, Carla Bley (Escalator Over the Hill), Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle.[22] Christopher Loudon, of Jazz Times, wrote in 2004 that Ronstadt is "blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation."[23]
Ronstadt reduced her activity after 2000 when she felt her singing voice deteriorating.[24] She released her final solo album in 2004 and her final collaborative album in 2006 and performed her final live concert in 2009. She announced her retirement in 2011 and revealed shortly afterwards that she is no longer able to sing as a result of a degenerative condition initially diagnosed as Parkinson's disease but later determined to be progressive supranuclear palsy.[24][a] Since then, Ronstadt has continued to make public appearances, going on a number of public speaking tours in the 2010s. She published an autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir,[25] in September 2013. A documentary based on her memoirs, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, was released in 2019.
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he appeared with another former progressive country singer, Linda Ronstadt, in the Broadway adaptation of Puccini's opera La Bohème
- ^ "Linda Ronstadt". Grammys.com. Archived from the original on January 2, 2020. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
- ^ "2014 Induction Ceremony The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. October 16, 2013. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
- ^ "President Obama Honors Linda Ronstadt, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Others in Art and Humanities Ceremony". Daily News. New York. Associated Press. July 28, 2014. Archived from the original on November 25, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
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- ^ Hermanson, Wendy (June 26, 2018). "Faith Hill, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt Getting Stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame". Taste of Country. Archived from the original on June 27, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
- ^ "Powerful Country Women Getting Stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame". Taste of Country. June 27, 2018. Archived from the original on September 4, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
- ^ "Linda Ronstadt". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on May 8, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
- ^ "Don't Know Much". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on June 3, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
- ^ "Disc 2, October 1969: Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, Billy Eckstine, Mort Sahl, and Sid Caesar, God Bless the Child Linda Ronstadt and Billy Eckstine Duet". Playboy After Dark DVD Collection. Archived from the original on August 21, 2006. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
- ^ Partridge, Tony (September 12, 2006). "Linda Ronstadt Guest Appearances and Unique Recordings" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2007.http://lyricswww.ronstadt-linda.com/guestapp.doc Archived November 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Loudon, Christopher (December 2004). "Linda Ronstadt: Hummin' to Myself (Verve)". JazzTimes. Archived from the original on April 13, 2007. Retrieved April 19, 2007.
- ^ a b McCarthy, Ellen (December 3, 2019). "Linda Ronstadt never stopped singing". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 4, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^ Ronstadt, Linda (2013). Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-6872-8. OCLC 829743967.
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