Posted on 08/23/2013 6:55:29 PM PDT by mr fish
The 67-year-old, 11-time Grammy Award winner details her struggle with the disease in an interview with the AARP.
Grammy Award-winning artist Linda Ronstadt has revealed that a recent Parkinson's diagnosis has rendered her unable to sing.
In an interview with the AARP, the 67-year-old says that she was officially diagnosed with the degenerative disorder eight months ago after displaying symptoms as far back as eight years ago.
"I couldn't sing," she told AARP music reporter Alanna Nash, "and I couldn't figure out why. I knew it was mechanical. I knew it had to do with the muscles, but I thought it might have also had something to do with the tick disease that I had. And it didn't occur to me to go to a neurologist."
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Ronstadt says that she had undergone a shoulder operation, and she believed that to be the culprit for her trembling hands.
"Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose, so when I finally went to a neurologist and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked," she said. "I wouldn't have suspected that in a million, billion years."
Now, Ronstadt says she "can't sing a note." Throughout her career, which began when she was just 14 years old singing with her siblings, Ronstadt accumulated eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, a Tony Award and a Golden Globe nom for her role in The Pirates of Penzance. She released her first studio album in 1969 (Hand Sown… Home Grown) and her most recent in 2006 (Adieu False Heart).
Ronstadt recently penned a memoir, Simple Dreams, out Sept. 17, though the book does not address her diagnosis or the loss of her voice.
"No one can sing with Parkinson's disease," she tells AARP. "No matter how hard you try."
The publication's full interview with Ronstadt is slated to run on AARP.org next week.
There’s a positive note. Thanks for posting.
I have prayed Psalms 58 and 59 over many people. Ronstadt was one of them. She can sort it out with God.
Actually Annette Funicello had MS, not Parkinson’s, but both can cause an awful downward spiral. That last documentary they made of her struggle was heartbreaking, but they were trying to raise money for support of a controversial treatment, CCSVI. I’ve have MS, and most people aren’t aware of what end stage progressive MS can look like. Her husband is a saint.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/annette-funicello-her-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-1.984202
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Thank you.
max, i have noticed you are a plain
speaker. i know you hail from Canada,
but perhaps you are now an American
citizen and could run for office?!
Bingo!
My 1970s would not be the same without her. Her songs litter my playlists.
We are going to see Karla Bonhoff perform in Denver next month. Karla wrote many of Lindas best songs.
Good one
Written by Michael Nesmith of the Monkees.
Who's that guy Parkinson who took her voice? (And by the way Linda, learn the proper use of apostrophe's.)
My Japanese wife - who eats twice as much as I - weighs the same as she did when she was in college , around 108 pounds . She’s 62 ( a year older than myself ) . Wish I had her metabolism !
Right on. Some here don’t get the fact the lefties are destroying this once great country. They are clueless.
Not necessarily. Welch sang on Broadway and received good reviews. She can sing.
“Maybe she’s had to take Steroids like Cortisone before she was actually diagnosed with Parkinson’s”
More likely drugs like methamphetamine or LSD. These drugs can cook your substantia nigra, reduce your dopamine production and lead to premature Parkinson’s. Ask Leftist convert Michael J Fox.
it’s on my homepage..my ode for hatred for liberals. If I forgave libtards, I would be lying about the sincerity of my prayer’
LOL, I’m an abrasive rightwinger living and working in the middle of a faggot-infested city. Who’s gonna vote for me? Thanks, sweetie.
But Freepers don’t believe me that because of my “ingenuity” in having the Conservative Party win Vancouver in 2006 before I left for America. Vancouver, Canada is the most liberal, anti-American city north of the border, yet I managed to have Stephen Harper speak at the town hall there in 2006. This is akin to having George Bush speak in the middle of San Francisco. Yes, what an accomplishment. Maybe I should have applied for the GOP but I;m not as liberal as they are today.
Yup. No more gray area. Either you with us or against us. Sheesh, Freepers have become limp-wristed nowadays...
I always thought Linda would look good in prison, and I was right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgqE7trOJ5I
Indeed she did but in my opinion the greatest female voice ever was Mama Cass Elliot.
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