Linda Ronstadt can no longer sing due to Parkinson’s disease. Singer Linda Ronstadt is losing her voice to Parkinson’s disease. The crooner, 72, revealed that her voice started to go as early as 2000, though she didn’t reveal her Parkinson’s diagnosis to the world until 2013 and didn’t stop performing until 2009.Feb 4, 2019
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My late mother who studied and sang opera, was a classically trained pianist and also sang with a few local big bands on the radio in the early 40’s, and hated pretty much all the rock and pop music I liked back in the late 70’s and early 80’s when I was still living at home.
But one day I was playing Linda Ronstadt greatest hits on my new stereo, IIRC it was the song Blue Bayou and she heard it and asked who that singer was. I told her and she had never heard of her before but that she had a wonderful voice, that she had an amazing range and very good vocal control, quite a high praise coming from my mother who knew good singers from bad.
Years later I bought her the Linda Ronstadt Nelson Riddle album “Lush Life” and she loved it. My mother also loved the Gloria Estefan album - Mi Tierra, Estefan being some else who she recognized as having a terrific singing voice (and she loved Cuban jazz/big band music).
I’m sure my mom would have hated Linda Ronstadt’s politics and her personal life choices but she knew a great talent when she heard it.
As for Linda Ronstadt’s appearance, she’s 72 years old and she has Parkinson’s.
I think it’s all fine and well to criticize her for her politics but attacking her because she no longer looks like her 20 something year old self? I wish I at 59 years old that I still looked like my 21-year-old self. And I wish I had inherited my mother’s singing voice. No. Instead I inherited my father’s carpentry skills. But I can, like my mother cook and bake so it’s all good :)