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Linda Ronstadt

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.

Linda Ronstadt

Linda Maria Ronstadt[1]

(1946-07-15) July 15, 1946
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.

  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • musician
  • record producer
  • actress

  • Vocals
  • guitar

1965–2011

She 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.


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.

In the album In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record won the Grammy for Best Album for Children. Ronstadt was one of the various artists featured on the album. The Grammys were awarded to the producers, David Levine and Lucy Simon.

1981

(1968) (with the Stone Poneys)

Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III

(1969)

Hand Sown ... Home Grown

(1970)

Silk Purse

(1972)

Linda Ronstadt

(1973)

Don't Cry Now

(1974)

Heart Like a Wheel

(1975)

Prisoner in Disguise

(1976)

Hasten Down the Wind

(1977)

Simple Dreams

(1978)

Living in the USA

(1980)

Mad Love

(1982)

Get Closer

(1983)

What's New

(1984)

Lush Life

(1986)

For Sentimental Reasons

(1987) (with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton)

Trio

(1987)

Canciones de Mi Padre

(1989)

Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind

(1991)

Mas Canciones

(1992)

Frenesí

(1993)

Winter Light

(1995)

Feels Like Home

(1996)

Dedicated to the One I Love

(1998)

We Ran

(1999) (Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton)

Trio II

(1999) (with Emmylou Harris)

Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions

(2000)

A Merry Little Christmas

(2004)

Hummin' to Myself

(2006) (with Ann Savoy)

Adieu False Heart

Ronstadt, Linda (2013). Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir (First Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.). New York: . ISBN 978-1-4516-6872-8. OCLC 829743967.

Simon & Schuster

Ronstadt, Linda (2022). Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. New York: . ISBN 978-1597145794. OCLC 1290245461.

Heyday Books

Official website

at IMDb

Linda Ronstadt

at the Internet Broadway Database

Linda Ronstadt

at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

Linda Ronstadt

Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Image of Linda Ronstadt reclining on a porch railing in Los Angeles, California, 1974.