Ronstadt's father came from a pioneering Arizona ranching family and was of Mexican descent with a German male ancestor. The family was featured in Family Circle magazine in 1953. Ronstadt was raised on the family's 10-acre (4В ha) ranch with her siblings Peter (who served as Tucson's Chief of Police for ten years, 1981вЂ“1991), Michael, and Gretchen. Ronstadt Co., and Ruth Mary (nГ©e Copeman) Ronstadt (1914вЂ“1982), a homemaker. Linda Maria Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona, on July 15, 1946, the third of four children of Gilbert Ronstadt (1911вЂ“1995), a prosperous machinery merchant who ran the F. 5.6 Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame.3.9 Returning to the contemporary music scene.3.4.6 Time magazine and 'rock chick' image.3.4.5 Most successful female singer of the 1970s.A documentary based on her memoirs, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, was released in 2019. She published an autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, in September 2013. Since then, Ronstadt has continued to make public appearances, going on a number of public speaking tours in the 2010s. 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 later determined to be progressive supranuclear palsy. Ronstadt reduced her activity after 2000 when she felt her singing voice deteriorating, releasing her last full-length album in 2004 and performing her last live concert in 2009. Christopher Loudon, of Jazz Times, wrote in 2004 that Ronstadt is 'blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation.' She has lent her voice to over 120 albums and has sold more than 100В million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. Ronstadt has collaborated with artists in diverse genres, including: Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Carla Bley ( Escalator Over the Hill), Rosemary Clooney, Flaco JimГ©nez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle. She has charted 36 albums, ten top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop Album Chart. 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.

Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40, ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one (' You're No Good'). She charted 38 US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. Ronstadt was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements. 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. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. 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 has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin.

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