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My Take
Linda Ronstadt is my favorite kind of artist: one who treated genre as an invitation rather than a fence. Rock, country, Mexican canciones, big-band standards—she sang them all not as stunts but as homecomings, and her Tucson upbringing near the border clearly fed that fearlessness. What I admire most is that her ambition was always in service of the song, never the spotlight; eleven Grammys and a Kennedy Center honor later, she still reads as a craftsman first. Even in retirement, her recordings keep teaching singers what total conviction sounds like. For me, she remains the gold standard of interpretive singing.
Overview
Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American retired singer and musician who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, folk, pop, country, and soul. Ronstadt has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Linda Ronstadt
- Name (Japanese)
- リンダ・ロンシュタット
- Reading
- りんだ・ろんしゅたっと
- Born
- July 15, 1946 (age 79)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Dog
- Origin
- Tucson, Arizona, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / actor / singer-songwriter / stage actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Catalina Magnet High School
- University
- Arizona State University
Awards & achievements
- 2014 National Medal of Arts
- 1989 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
- 2016 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2011 Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
- 1977 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
- 1993 Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album
- 2009 honorary doctor of the Berklee College of Music
- 2019 Kennedy Center Honors
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.