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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 was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National
Medal of Arts and Humanities.
Most successful female singer of the
1970s:
Author Andrew Greeley, in his book God
in Popular Culture, described Ronstadt as "the most successful and
certainly the most durable and most gifted woman Rock singer of her era."
Signaling her wide popularity as a concert artist, outside of the singles
charts and the recording studio, Dirty Linen magazine describes her as the
"first true woman rock 'n' roll superstar ... (selling) out stadiums with
a string of mega-successful albums." Amazon.com defines her as the
American female rock superstar of the decade. Cashbox gave Ronstadt a Special
Decade Award, as the top-selling female singer of the 1970s.
She retired in 2011 and was diagnosed
with Parkinson's disease in December 2012, which left her unable to sing.
