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| - Living people
- American country rock singers
- American people of German descent
- 21st-century American writers
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- 21st-century American singers
- Rock and roll
- 20th-century composers
- Grammy Award winners
- People with Parkinson's disease
- 20th-century American writers
- Songwriters from California
- Capitol Records artists
- United States National Medal of Arts recipients
- Country musicians from California
- 20th-century American singers
- American people of English descent
- American female rock singers
- 1946 births
- American record producers
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- 21st-century composers
- American alternative country singers
- American actresses of Mexican descent
- American female guitarists
- American female jazz singers
- American female singer-songwriters
- American film actresses
- American memoirists
- American multi-instrumentalists
- American musical theatre actresses
- American musicians of Mexican descent
- American people of Dutch descent
- American pop rock singers
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- American percussionists
- American people of Mexican descent
- Asylum Records artists
- Art rock musicians
- Broadway theatre people
- Cajun musicians
- Las Vegas entertainers
- Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners
- Musicians from San Francisco, California
- Musicians from Tucson, Arizona
- Primetime Emmy Award winners
- Singers from Los Angeles, California
- Spanish-language singers of the United States
- Vanguard Records artists
- Verve Records artists
- Women memoirists
- Writers from Los Angeles, California
- Actresses from Tucson, Arizona
- Country musicians from Arizona
- Songwriters from Arizona
- American performers of Latin music
- Big band singers
- Writers from San Francisco, California
- American writers of Mexican descent
- Arizona Democrats
- Writers from Tucson, Arizona
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| - Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American popular music singer. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, and numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award.Ronstadt has collaborated with artists from a diverse spectrum of genres including Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle. She has lent her voice to over 120 albums and has sold more than 100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. Christopher Loudon of Jazz Times noted in 2004, Ronstadt is %22Blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation ... rarest of rarities – a chameleon who can blend into any background yet remain boldly distinctive ... It's an exceptional gift; one shared by few others.%22In total, she has released over 30 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. Ronstadt charted 38 Billboard Hot 100 singles, with 21 reaching the top 40, 10 in the top 10, three at number 2, and %22You're No Good%22 at number 1. This success did not translate to the UK, with only her single %22Blue Bayou%22 reaching the UK Top 40. Her duet with Aaron Neville, %22Don't Know Much%22, peaked at number 2 in December 1989. In addition, she has charted 36 albums, 10 top-10 albums and three number 1 albums on the Billboard Pop Album Chart.In a 2011 interview with the Arizona Daily Star she said, %22I am 100 percent retired and I'm not doing anything any more%22. It was announced publicly in August 2013 that Ronstadt had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in December 2012, which left her unable to sing.Her autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, was released in September 2013. It debuted in the Top 10 on The New York Times Best Sellers List.Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded one of the twelve 2013 National Medals of Arts and Humanities.
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