Linda Ronstadt Opens Up About Health, Career, Mexican Heritage
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- Music legend Linda Ronstadt sits down with Maria Shriver for a personal conversation about her five-decade career, living with progressive supranuclear palsy and how she is celebrating her Mexican heritage in her new memoir “Feels Like Home.”
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I don’t even speak Spanish but man!! Her Mexican album is so beautiful!!
I love Linda Ronstadt I live In Tucson and LOVE going to the Music Hall that was named after her
Linda is so right about Mexicans. The Mexican people are some of the kindest, most hardworking people I've ever met. All the best Linda!
not according to Trumpers. They have SO demonized them. it's downright SICK.
I have reflected and shared many times my plight as a white woman with a flat tire. Always, and I mean ALWAYS, many times, a kind Mexican man was my rescuer. I've never had a white man stop to help me, more than a few flipping me off. Same when I was a child traveling from So Cal across to Oklahoma with my grandparents every summer. Car trouble = nice Mexican man or a family stopping to help.
VIVA MEXICO!
@@roxannehale1386 absolutely! My experiences with the Mexican People. They are warm and generous. Have a strong faith and belief in God. Good people!
I've worked with Mexicans, and are there to do, and diligently do their job. NO lack of work ETHIC, even in younger generation. As we see in our American youth today. Helpful as co workers, also. They come to America, work hard, build businesses of their own, and family is everything to them. Family, strong work ethic, and belief in God..
They’re also some of the most anti-Black too.
Forget American idol, and those type shows. Linda Rondstadt is what REAL talent looks like. Never be another like her, ever! What a God given voice she had! She could sing rock, pop, opera, Hispanic, ANYTHING. The power and range in her voice was unreal. I read her book, fantastic. Gorgeous photography, beautifully written! Get a copy! Love Linda!
That's why, when people fuss and fawn over "one note/one melody/one more profanity-filled tune" Taylor Swift, I have to laugh. Linda Ronstadt was a TRUE talent; a voice that could soar to the heavens or serenade with a lush Gershwin tune. To have come of age to her music in the late 60's, early 70's, and experienced all her musical interations throughout the years, this interview truly brought me to tears. She was, and will always be, one of American popular music's untouchable treasures.
@@birdsfan57 absolutely, unequivocally agree! What passes today for talent, for the most part is pure garbage. Taylor swift, is more than likely autotuned to the moon and back. I heard her sing years ago with Stevie Nick's, she almost made Stevie sound off key..I believe it was , Rhiannon. I felt for Stevie. What a crash and burn. Cringe worthy🤢
Want to hear REAL singers? With God given talent? Not only Linda, but Ann Wilson, Karen carpenter, Barbara Striesand, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood,
Judy Garland, Cyndi Lauper. Just some off the top of my head
I haven't heard ANY such talent like those women in YEARS. American idol, even the winners, are at best wedding singers, karaoke singers. Pale in comparison to the true greats.
@@patricialavallee8286 I remember that disasterous performance when Ms. Swift completely ruined the song with Stevie Nicks. True God-given talent, such as that possessed by those you mentioned, will likely never be seen again. I would add the late Eydie Gorme, Connie Francis, Dionne Warwick, Petula Clark, Della Reese, Vicki Carr, and Marilyn McCoo to that list. All amazingly talented with never a need for gimmicks or autotune.
@@birdsfan57 yes, that performance with Stevie Nick's. I kind of got the vibe that Stevie was trying hard to gauge how to sing ,"around," for lack of a better word, Taylor Swift. She actually did, a if I remember correctly,, make Stevie sound off key. The whole duet was beyond awful.
The talents you mentioned, as well as the ones I did, will never be duplicated. I don't know why there is a complete lack of that TRUE gifted talent today, but there is.
Carrie Underwood, for instance. She's a very good singer, American idol winner, who they seem to be pushing to be a rock star. However, in NO can she hold a candle to the old school group of female singers
Rock star? Ann Wilson burned that bridge. She shouldn't even try...
Very well stated !!
Man she still has that feisty personality that epitomized her impish stature. Linda is legendary in many ways. God bless her.
Canciones De Mi Padre reminds me of my childhood. My dad's been gone 21 years and this album still makes me feel close to him. ❤
No other singer better than Linda
Shhhh! You don't want to upset all the 'Swift-ies'!!
I really appreciate how respectful Maria was with Linda in this piece. ❤️
She is 76 years old and still so beautiful. She will always be one of my teen crushes from the 70s with her jet black hair and gorgeous smile!
Came home to this interview after having dinner with an old college chum. Talked about one of my life's regrets...not going to see Linda in '76 when she performed at Alumni Hall at our college, St. John's University in Jamaica Queens. My friend said she was great and remembered her singing "Heat Wave." When was she not great?Listened to her "Back in the USA" album on the way home. This wonderful interview capped off my evening. So grateful to her for taking us along on her musical odyssey. Not only has her vast catalog of music enthralled us, but as primarily a cover artist, she has led me to know and explore so many other singers from the distant past. We, her fans, are indebted to her for continuing to share herself and her life's story with us. Her voice remains music to our ears.
I love her so much! What an amazing human.
Mesmerizing that’s my definition of her essence. 🕊🎵🕊🎼🎵🕊🎵🎼🎵🕊
She’s still as beautiful as ever.
I wanted to be a Linda Ronstadt and use to sing along with her records. I cannot imagine how heartbreaking it is not to be able to sing. My heart feels for her.
Like you, I dreamed of being the next Linda Ronstadt or Ann Wilson. 2 brunettes who could really belt it out! Chronic allergies and hypothyroidism have ravaged my vocal cords. I can still carry a tune, but my voice is thin and reedy, I've lost at least half an octave of my range, and I can't hold a note for very long. It stinks! I wonder if Linda's been in touch with Julie Andrews who also cannot sing anymore due to a botched vocal cord surgery. Surely Julie understands the unique pain and grief of losing such a gift.
MAD LOVE was my first album I purchased with my own money. Been imitating the multi-talented Linda ever since!!
Oh my, it breaks my heart to see how this is and has robbed her of her ability to be one of the greatest voices this world has ever known.
Yet, she is still so beautiful, and most assuredly isn't looking for pity.
Absolutely love her.
I noticed that too! Her frailty is due to her neurological disease yet still looks the same, beautiful!
I love her so much 😭
Linda is my inimitable hero and has been for 55 years since the first time I heard "Different Drum." I love her unconditionally.
So do I and my surname is drumm with an extra m lol x
Queen of her scene and yet she never bathed in her own reflection. Important pipes surrounded by devoted talented players. No one sings like Ronstadt, not now and truthfully not back when. Rare and remarkable pipes.
She was drop dead gorgeous when she was younger and still has those eyes all these years later.
Just seems like a genuine, normal person with values that are sadly lacking in many people today.....speaking from a younger 48 year old perspective.
What a talented lady. We take so much for granted.
Im 72, old enough to have seen Linda live several times. A beautiful voice and she was able to cross genre of music with ease. She is today as beautiful and caring as she was in the 70s. All the best to you Linda, we still listen .
Linda Ronstadt has been my one "special star" my entire life. While her musical abilities are extraordinary, it was Linda Ronstadt the 'person' that drew me to her. Kind, generous, talented yet vulnerable from the start. When you dig into her biography you will discover what made her who she became. A pioneering family tree of music, invention, work ethic and love. Her mom was a jewel, a sweetheart whose dad was one of the most gifted American inventors in history. Her dad, a talented singer himself gave up a career in popular music to instead dedicate his life to raising his young family. True pioneers of the great American Southwest that has added untold riches to our amazingly diverse nation. Thoughts and prayers are well deserved towards this woman who gave us so much. Thank you Linda.
Beautifully said
Her Spanish music is all I play in my car, while I learn Spanish. My Son in law is from Mexico and I worked at a free clinic with a large Mexican population. Just wonderful people who helped any way they could, including holding large Fiestas and giving the money to us to keep our clinic going. They are all a real blessing to me.
Buena suerte en todo lo que hace Katie échele ganas mija! Sending you the best good luck in all u do 🙏🏼☺️
Thank you so very much for featuring this interview with one of the greatest voices of our time! I have adored Linda Ronstadt since 1967... I am two years younger than her so we did lots of growing together. Such an important contribution to Music and to Women's achievements!
God Bless you Linda Ronstadt..🌟❤️💛🧡
Soundtrack of my youth 🎼🖤
Love Linda. She is my all time favorite singer. Back in the 70s when music was an important pass time (didn't have the internet of course) I would listen to her songs and voice over and over again. Sorry, but I can't do that with a lot of pop music today. Her heartfelt singing really resonated with so many of us.
Best live pipes on the planet. Powerful and tender. Viva Linda!
One of my greatest voices of all time. Being a Tucson native myself, the Ronstadt family is ever present. It is very hard to see her struggles now. But also shows her courage when most people of her fame and status would not do this interview.
Love her all her vocal gifts! Her voice and her way of life! She took control of her life! Canciones de MI Padre is an amazing sing along! All her music is AMAZING!
Hello Mamaveros how are you doing today
We love her music forever!❤
I don't even have to put on her music because so many of her performances are seared into my brain that I can hear them crystal clear inside my mind. Thank you Linda, thank you.
One of the purest voices to be on our planet... I guess you could say I grew up listening to her in the late 60's and early 70's. Linda... you are a national treasure. God bless you and yours and thanks for so many wonderful songs.
Beautiful inside and out. We love you Linda !
My mom was just diagnosed with PSP, it’s been really hard to accept. It’s very rare so they don’t know a lot about it. It starts with a lot of falls and loss of control of motor function, my mom’s ability to speak is really affected, it’s hard to understand her. We know we don’t have all that long left with her and are trying to grieve but also make her last years as happy as possible. She’s only 60. I love Linda ronstadt, she had such a beautiful voice. I listen to her music all the time. It’s strange because my dad was a bit of a fan but I found her music on my own and began listening to it. She must be listening to the most beautiful music in her head. I’m glad she’s talking about the disorder because it is so rare most people don’t know it exists. My brother has joined a support group that helps people who have a family member with PSP and a lot of them are donating their brains to science so that someday we’ll be able to understand more about it and hopefully the people who have it won’t have to suffer as much.
So sorry about your dear mother. You will love her all the days of her life. Bless you all.
I’m so sorry :(
Omg she was so gorgeous ❤😊
Maria, you are kind, compassionate and a true professional. Thank you.
Hello Barbara how are you doing today
Sending love back to your heart did you attend any live event?
One of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard! My Dad passed in August and I listen to Canciones De Mi Padre all the time. Her voice and lyrics on this album keeps me so close to my Dad and Mexican heritage! True legend!
The duet with Aaron Neville, "Don't Know What" simply out of this world! Aaron's voice - it's a wow! Shalom.
Linda Ronstadt s voice was amazing...she was lucky to be able to do what she did and she had a good life ...now she is grateful ...be grateful everyday if you get to share your gifts and do what you love
I love this interview with Linda...At home and eating delicious Mexican food...God bless you Linda ❤️🙏🏼
The Ronstadt family was instrumental in rallying support to help restore San Javier del Bac, an old Church just outside of Tucson. Their philanthropic work in this endeavor is respected and beloved by all who know them.
Hello Cynthia how are you doing today
One of my favorites of all time; she is truly one of the greatest vocalists of all time. I'm heartbroken for her for her loss of her ability to sing.
I love hearing her songs, takes me back to my childhood. My dad went to school with her in Arizona, so whenever I hear her music, it also reminds me of my dad who passed away 5 years ago.
My dad really like her. He died 25 years ago; Blue Bayou still makes me tear up
How sweet a memory for you to cherish!
Are you talking about university?
What a picture of courage. Love you Linda.
What a voice, what a song. What a career. I wish I was listening to Linda's music sooner.
She is number 1 vocalist for me. Seen her multiple times over the last 25-30yrs. One of the top 4 female vocalists in the last 100 yrs
Love Linda! It's a sadder world without Linda singing out loud.
I agree with all the others that have written comments. I also grew up with the great Linda Ronstadt. There will never be another voice like hers. More voices than not today fade in the presence of pure, powerful and unadulterated talent. I hear her voice in my head and heart and am transported back to the 70's and all those wonderful memories. She is beautiful! May God Bless this great woman who means so much to do many.
Very special and rare songbird. The new book - historical, personal, musical and edible is a fascinating journey to our Borderlands. An often misunderstood place - the Sonoran Desert is a unique and blended world that is deep in Ronstadt's soul. Fine interview - tell Linda we still love her, tell Linda we still need her.
Linda Ronstadt, we love you!!!
Dear Linda Ronstadt,
I have been a fan of yours for decades, your music, your voice your humanity all are incredible. I want to take this moment however, to thank you for the love and support you gave to your good friend, the late, great Phoebe Snow. After Phoebe’s daughter passed away, you lovingly helped her get beyond a mothers devastation of loosing her daughter. You pushed and supported Phoebe to get back out there and as a result, we were able to benefit from her extraordinary voice and talent for a few more years and create her exquisite live album, her final gift before she herself, passed away. It says a lot about you Ms. Ronstadt that as an artist, you are capable of helping another great artist and sister, during the darkest time of their life. You and Phoebe will always be my heroines.
Wow, that’s great to hear-didn’t know that, absolutely love Phoebe Snow too-so talented & underrated!!
Wow What an absolute Legend I LOVE Linda Ronstadt She has Paved the way For young Singers To follow their dreams and To never Give up And even though She can't sing anymore Her gifted voice Will inspire others to chase after their dreams and Always stay true to who you are And that's what This Legendary Lady has Done We love you Miss Ronstadt.
Linda Ronstadt is one of the most amazing woman ever.
Wonderful interview. From her concerts when I was a young woman, then seeing her on Sesame Street sharing Mexican culture when my children were small, to now looking back over her life. She is forever an icon.
The songbook of my adolescence. That iconic voice and so much class. I'm so thankful to be able to say that I saw her perform so many times, live. Amazing talent.
I love Linda!! her voice was like no other. All her songs are so special because of her amazing vocals. I own Canciones de mi Padre and that album is the Max!! 😍😍👏👏👏🙏🏼🙏🏼
Haven't seen her in a while as she lives in our area of Northern CA. Heard she was sick but never saw her shaking before. Thanks so much Linda for the music and memories. Your music will live on forever!
Her Mexican songs are through the roof! Her performance is freaking mind blowing. Pulling out all the stops I have gone down that rabbit 🐇 hold many times watching the performances in what topped the charts as a world music album. This country has many beautiful threads running through it making a rich tapestry . Thank you for embodying that Ms Ronstadt. Congratulations on your book 📖!!
Beautifully said....thank you.
My all-time favorite singer! Loved her from the Stone Poneys forward. Just a perfect voice. I did see her in concert once in the late 70s and it was phenomenal. So sad she has these physical issues but grateful that she blessed me for decades with her beautiful songs.
Hi Linda how are you doing today
Rondstadt looks better today than a few years ago. She has been struggling with health issues for so long. She had an amazing voice and is living an amazing life. Wish her the best.
I remember when she first went public with her diagnosis, how her sadness and devastation was written all over her face. It's really greate to see her genuine, relaxed smile and spark in her eye is back.
Sending love back to your heart did you attend any live event?
With my having an appreciation for Linda Ronstadt's music since the very beginning, and with my now the same age as her, I'm doing the same kind of soul searching. Being a burned out motorsports writer I have noticed the interest of younger folks who have never been told or experienced what I have. I have come to enjoy writing a monthly column for a racing paper reliving my days of chasing high-speed half-way round the world. I really enjoy the response & feedback. It will make your day. It's also why I've begun work on a book of memoirs. Thank you Linda for everything you've given us.😢
We were so lucky back in the '70s to have both Linda Ronstadt and Olivia Newton-John as our songbirds. God I love this woman!
Love her! Part of my life, growing up with her music. My father died from PSNP (progressive supranuclear palsy) and it's rather awful. My heart is breaking knowing what she has. Her tunes are just running thru the threads of my (and alot of others') life. A legend.
She truly is an amazing woman of substance. I'd always enjoyed her music, but her interviews, in recent years, have been insightful.
I don't think they've incited anything! I would say they're insightful.
You are very insightful. It must have been late when I wrote that. Thanks.
Hearing any of her songs takes me back in time...the voice of my generation. She is a marvel.
Sending love back to your heart did you attend any live event?
This is a fabulous interview from such an icon that is embracing radical acceptance as her body no longer allows her desired self expression through singing so she found another way through her writing 🙏👍🙏 Much to be admired 🥰
Mery Christmas Teresa
to me she's the queen of country rock! She carved out her own niche! Fabulous talent as a solo artist and with collaborators like Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Aaron Neville, James Ingram, the Eagles, and so many more.
My fathers most favorite female artist ‼️ What a TALENT 🎶❤️🎼 Thank you Linda for nailing ALL those musical genres especially “mariachi”, you outsold all the Mexican singers of Mexico with Canciones de mi padre 🎉🎼 You are an amazing Talent and God bless you 🙏🙏
Yep! Me too! 👴Father's favorite female artist!
Are you are of mixed Mexican and Arab heritage? I also love Canciones de mi padre soooo much. My mom would blast that album on road trips. ❤️
Linda Ronstadt is the real deal a voice like no other! This beautiful woman was such a force and could stand toe to toe with any man in the music business. Just love her! ❣️
The 3 cds she recorded with Nelson Riddle are perfect. She was meant to sing the songs of the Great American Song Book. Her version of What's New is the best.
Amazing. I am 74 and when I started high school my mother also told me not to learn to type because I would be stuck being a secretary! Now it is called "keyboarding" and most everybody can do it. Linda is outstanding and I listen to her music regularly. I wish her only the best.
I took high school and college courses in typing and I never typed for a living. But I can really do a quick google search entry.
@@saturn3344 😋
Linda is absolutely amazing. Loved her music since the early/mid seventies.
Still going strong!!!
Ever since I was a kid in the 80s, Linda Ronstadt has always been one of my favorite singers. To this day when I play records, I play at least 5 or 6 of her singles
I grew up listening to Linda. Even when my mom was pregnant with me see was listening to her mariachi album, so that was the first thing I heard.
I always loved her. When I sang in a band, I sang all her songs. So glad that she looks great at her age and is still able to speak and think with that horrible disease she has. I send all sorts of positive thoughts to her
I still love this Woman.Despite her physical problems,she still looms large in my memories of those days in the late 60’s and throughout the 70s.Iconic.... she is and her music will be remembered and rendered but never duplicated.
I still have the first few CDs my dad bought me. I’ve always loved music and my dad encouraged it by getting me CDs and I got Canciones de Mi Padre and Más Canciones when I was probably 5. I played them hundreds of times not knowing she wasn’t proficient in Spanish but by god she sings in so beautifully like a native speaker. I will treasure those albums forever as I feel they connect me to my dad’s love of music and Linda’s story as a fellow child of immigrants.
I LOVE YOU LINDA RONSTADT !!!! Best female vocalist ever. Gard you gave us so many good times, listening to your unmatchable voice, dancing, singing, smooching lol. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing gift xxxxx
Bless her heart. She deserves every honor she has received. Linda is a world-class talent.
FAN since the beginning. Love her
One of the purest voices to ever grace Pop music. Ronstadt will not be repeated.
Love & best wishes Ms. Ronstadt from Australia. ❤️🇦🇺
I’m sad to say I only learned about her in mid 2022, but glad she’s still around. A living legend that has recently been reintroduced to a new generation
"I think there's such a thing as 'adult onset narcissism'."
Still sharp as ever. Still able to look at the hurtful truth.
I'll always love Linda, not for Her heritage or other political issues, just because She sang son beautifully and gave the world such joy. Linda, no matter what, You will always be in our hearts.
Thank you for doing that interview Maria. I have to admit it was kinda hard to see her in that condition. I used to listen to Linda Ronstadt a lot in the 90s on my way to work and she still has one of the best voices I've ever heard. I've worked with patients exactly like her (with her condition) and surprisingly, they all had that same type of humor. Hearing Linda make that last joke put my heart at ease.
Linda Rondstadt is one amazing woman and artist. I have so many great memories of her from my youth. My friends and I listened (or partied) along with her music. Dearest Linda, my the angels watch over you and 'thank you' for everything (a Canadian fan forever)
Hello Nancy how are you doing today
Sending love back to your heart did you attend any live event?
She is a legend. 👌❤️
Who doesn’t adore this woman? Linda Rondstadt was and is perfect in every way…
About her age, we grew up and old separately but together: I was, of course, never in her world, but, through her music, she seemed always present in mine.
Now in her 70’s (as am I, lol.) her elegance seems un diminished, and although she can no longer sing, her music is immortalized in her many recordings.
In my mind, a great great lady, of substantial character and immeasurable talent.
A gift to all of us who genuinely love music!
I appreciate the human tenderness that Maria showed Linda.
If only more can learn from this amazing performer of all time 💫❤💫
I love her. I have some beautiful memories of watching Canciones de mi Padre with my mother and grandmother 💛
Hello Caroline how are you doing today
Thank you, Linda, and viva Mexico!
That humble, open minded, beautiful, human soul shows even back then she wasnt Ashamed and stood up for her heritage didn't make a mexican song she did a whole album even tho she didnt have to, it came from the soul 🇲🇽
Love love love her
Even with disease and age, it is mazing how beautiful Linda still is.
Wow! Linda...you are loved and adored by SO MANY around the world. In my eyes you still are the best. Thank you for speaking up for Mexican people and for not being afraid to let the world know the struggles you are dealing with. A true inspiration!
For many years we enjoyed your music
She is still beautiful and it seems still a little mischievous. Thanks for doing this interview so we don’t forget about her. What a voice she had.
It's her resilience, adaptability, perseverance and courage that really shines
It’s so so SAD to see sure a beautiful person and wonderful performer to unfortunately have this terrible disease. Her gorgeous voice will always be with us. Happy Birthday Angel🙏
The legend Linda Ronstadt overachieved and earned all the love, respect, admiration she is getting in her lifetime.