See the legend of retirement music Linda Ronstadt now at 75
The star, which reached fame in the 1970s, had to quit smoking 15 years ago for health reasons.
Nicknamed "The Queen of Rock," Arizona-bornLinda Ronstadt was, for a while in the 1970s, one of theThe best paid women make music, according toThe New Yorker. Throughout his five decades, career at the top of the charts as an interpreter, she took over more than two dozensThe best-selling albums Filled with original hits and timeless covers, landing 21 simple top 40 and help define the sound medical diagnosis until the country-rock has led to withdraw from the recording and possibly to execute quite.
Even if it has been out of the spotlight for over a decade, Ronstadt remains passionate about music. Continue reading to see what it has done since its days as a singer and where she is now at 75.
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Ronstadt reigned over the waves for decades.
To live as a musician is difficult, but to paraphrase his success 1977, Ronstadt make seeming as easy as falling in love. Already a veteran musician at 20 in the context of Pierre Ponies, who had a success with "different drum", she scored her first album n ° 1 in 1974 withHeart Like A Wheel. At the end of this decade, she sold stadiums around the world on the strength of hits like "Desperado", "When will I be Loved," You do not blame, "" It's so easy "and" Bleu Bayou . "
The 90s of the 80s and proved to be just as busy for the artist, who started exploring new sounds, including New Wave influences on the albumCrazy Love and a lurch in the opera with a nominated role in Tony on Broadway in Gilbert and SullivanPirates of Penzance-And plan more successful songs, including the Oscar nominated "Somewhere Out There. »
she publishedTrio, A collaboration withDolly Parton andEmmylou Harris who has sold more than 2 million copies, in 1986, and an album in Spanish language,CANCIONES OF MI PADREA tribute to the Mexican folk songs she loved as a child, in 1987. In the 1990s, Ronstadt continued to explore musical genres more, popcoun-rock to folk music and roots.
AsThe Washington Post Summarizes, "between 1969 and 2009, [Ronstadt] published more than 30 albums, won 10 Grammy Awards, had 21 top 40 hits."
An unexpected diagnosis cut off the word of career.
From about 2000, Ronstadt started noticing that his voice changed and she had bruising notes that had once been easy for her. To release the music do not want it to believed it good enough, it took a step back from the recording, the release of its final solo album in 2004 and on stage for the last time in 2009.
A 2012 diagnosis gave him the answer she had looked for more than 10 years: she hasProgressive supranuclear paralysis, A degenerative neurological disease similar to Parkinson's disease.
"I'm starting to do something, and he would start taking note, and he will cease," sheThe New Yorker. "What you can not do with Parkinsonian is repetitive movements, and singing is a repetitive movement. »
Other symptoms of the disease affected its mobility, so that these days, it glues most of the time around its San Francisco House, according to a profile published in 2019theLos Angeles Times. She never married, if her relationship at the end of the 1970s withJerry Brown, The governor of California, was remarkable enoughcoverPeople, And she was, for a while, committed toStars wars CreatorGeorge Lucas and comedian datedJim Carrey, 15 years his cadet, before he is famous. (He appeared inone of his clips.) Ronstadt is a mother, however, after adopting two children when she was in her 40s:Marie ClémentineandCarlos. She told theNew YorkerThat she looks at them for support-her son lives with her, and her daughter visits often.
But she found other activities to stay full.
Even if she misses singing,Ronstadt saysAnderson Cooper CNN on his show, she did not spend her years out of the scene feeling sorry for herself. "I'm happy just a kind of lie down and read a book and look out the window, whereas before I ran in all directions," she explained.
But it is still deeply in love with music and spends hours a day tracking new material everywhere from YouTube to the Tiny NPR office concert series. Do not be able to sing more she poses personal challenges too,.
"It's a bit frustrating when my family is above Arizona, because we all sing together. We do not talk about politics, "At-RonstadtThe New Yorker. "It's harmonious - I do not want to say punish relationships. But I can not do it anymore, so I just invite those who are Democrats."
It always appears in public for various events, including presenting his friend Parton with thePrices of the music of Musares of the Year In 2019 with Harris and beHonored itself by the Kennedy Center.
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Two recent films explore his life, then now.
Over the years, several directors and documentaries have addressed Ronstadt with offers to transform his life into a film. They were all refused until the award-winning filmmakersJeffrey Friedman (The celluloid cupboard) andEpstein Dress (Harvey's milk times) Proven too persistent. But the star has only allowed them to let them tell its history on two conditions: that they do not focus on its illness and that it would not intervieve on the camera, by theThat time.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
2019 manufacturingLinda Ronstadt: The sound of my voice leads to documentary 2020 shorts,Linda and the moocker birds. The short documents a journey it took to Banámichi, Sonora, Mexico - the birthplace of his grandfather - as part of his work with the Academy of Cultural Arts of Los Cenzontles, a cultural center of the bay Who teaches his young students on traditional music, art and dances of Mexico.
For Ronstadt, the work is a connection to its debut. "I liked Canciones of Mexico"she saidAarp Back in 2008. "We sang a lot of those like a growing family."
In fact, Ronstadt credit these traditional songs with the spark of his love of rock music. "Most rock people" do not roll come from blues or the gospel of the traditional black church, but I learned rancors "She told the guardian in 2020.
His legacy lives.
Although Ronstadt has not played on stage for nearly 15 years, she has remained a dynamic part of rock history. She wasinducted into the hall of the renown of the rock and the roller In 2014 and saw the work of his life in the spotlight in 2021 with the complete throat musical tributeLinda Ronstadt Experience Train the old American finalist of American IdolTristan McIntosh.
His influence is always felt, even on Twitter, where his name held earlier this week. After a Tweet resturning a controversial 2011Rolling stone the list ofBest 10 main singers At all times, fans around the world were protestable that it was not included. As a Twitter user said: "Not a list without #Lindaronstadt. "
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