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Collaborators: the Eagles, Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Dolly Parton, Randy NewmanLinda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American pop singer from Tucson, Arizona, who started her career in the 1960s and has gone on to sell over 60 million albums worldwide. Casey Kasem described her as "the queen of remakes" for her uncanny ability to transform long-forgotten oldies (or songs from relatively unknown artists) into modern pop hits.She got her start in the band The Stone Poneys, who scored a big hit with the Michael Nesmith song "Different Drum" in 1967. She immediately garnered attention from record executives - too much attention, actually - which led to tensions that brought about the band's breakup. Ronstadt then went solo, departing from the folk-rock sound of The Stone Poneys to a Country Rock sound on her debut solo album Hand Sown...Home Grown. While it was a commercial failure, she emerged at the forefront of the West Coast Country Rock movement in the early 1970s. She built a following and found some commercial success with her fourth album, 1973's Don't Cry Now. She finally broke out with 1974's Heart Like a Wheel, driven by two massive hits, "When Will I Be Loved" and "You're No Good". While Heart Like a Wheel was a hybrid of Country Rock and a more mainstream Rock/Pop sound, Ronstadt moved in a more mainstream Rock direction with her next two albums, Prisoner in Disguise (1975) and Hasten Down the Wind (1976). She reached her commercial peak in the late 1970s/early 1980s with Simple Dreams (1977), Living in the U.S.A (1978) and Mad Love (1980), in which she was one of the best-selling and highest-grossing musicians in America. The success of her concert tours of the era was unprecedented for a female solo act, as she was the first to sell out stadiums and arenas.After 1982's Get Closer performed below her previous three albums - which has been attributed to Ronstadt struggling to adapt to the new music video format popularized by MTV - she went in a more experimental direction. She released three consecutive big band ballad albums with The Nelson Riddle Orchestra, What's New (1983), Lush Life (1984), and For Sentimental Reasons (1986). She then released an album of Spanish-language Mariachi music, Canciones de Mi Padre (1987), in celebration of her Mexican ancestry.note Her great-great-grandfather Friedrich Ronstadt emigrated to Mexico from Germany in the 1840s, married a Mexican woman, and changed his first name to Federico. As she liked to explain, the Ronstadt family never crossed the border into the US, the border crossed them; the area of what is now Arizona where they settled became part of the US after the Gadsden Purchase. With 2 million copies sold in the US and 10 million sold worldwide, it is the most successful non-English language album in American history. She again found mainstream commercial and critical success late in the decade. First with the massively successful single "Somewhere Out There" from the An American Tail soundtrack, which peaked at #2 in 1987, then with the highly acclaimed and successful album Trio (1987) which she recorded in a trio with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. She fully won back the crowd in late 1989 with Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind, which was a major critical and commercial smash. It sold well through 1990 and its two lead singles Don't Know Much and All My Life, duets with Aaron Neville, were both top 20 hits in 1990 and won Ronstadt and Neville the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance With Duo or Group With Vocal for two consecutive years, in 1990 and 1991, respectively.Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind would end up being Ronstadt's last hurrah, as her 1993 follow-up Winter Light ended up being an Acclaimed Flop, and she was subsequently relegated to being a legacy act. She continued to record and tour, releasing her last solo studio album Hummin' to Myself in 2004 and performed her last concert in 2009. She confirmed her retirement in 2011, subsequently revealing that she has Parkinson's disease which left her unable to sing. Deteriorating health has forced her to generally withdraw from public life - she was sadly unable to attend her 2014 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a result - but still occasionally appears as a public speaker, discussing her career and the evolution of rock music. Her memoirs, Simple Dreams, were released in 2013.Ronstadt is regarded is one of the greatest vocalists of the Baby Boomer generation and is considered a groundbreaking and influential act, as her solo album sales and concert ticket grosses were unprecedented for a female solo act, let alone a Hispanic one. She was the first female solo act to regularly sell out stadiums and arenas, and her high standing in the previously male-dominated world of rock music paved the way for the massively successful female solo pop/rock acts of the 1980s and beyond. She has won 11 Grammy Awards, sold over 60 million albums and was both inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities in 2014. Living in the U.S.A. was the first album in history to ship double platinum, and Canciones de Mi Padre is the best selling non-English language album in American history. She can be credited with launching the careers of the Eagles, who served as her backup band in the early 1970s, and the solo career of Aaron Neville from him being her duet partner on Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind. She was also a childhood crush of Barack Obama. "Tropes Like a Wheel": | |
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