In 2000, Ronstadt completed her long contractual relationship with the Elektra/Asylum label. It was written and directed by Luis Valdez. [92] Ronstadt became music's first major touring female artist to sell out sizeable venues; she was also the top-grossing solo female concert artist for the 1970s. They called Linda Ronstadt the Queen of Rock in the '70s, but the name is a little limiting. [77] Likewise, a country sound and style, a fusion of country music and rock 'n' roll called country rock, started to exert its influence on mainstream pop music around the late 1960s, and it became an emerging movement Ronstadt helped form and commercialize. Not having the mass distribution that Warner Music Group gave her, Hummin' To Myself had sold over 75,000 copies in the U.S. as of 2010. [187] Mix magazine stated that "Linda Ronstadt (has) left her mark on more than the record business; her devotion to the craft of singing influenced many audio professionals ... (and is) intensely knowledgeable about the mechanics of singing and the cultural contexts of every genre she passes". Image of Linda Ronstadt reclining on a porch railing in Los Angeles, California, 1974. She has three siblings namely, Gretchen Ronstadt, Michael J. Ronstadt, Peter Ronstadt. In 2007, Ronstadt contributed to the compilation album We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song – a tribute album to jazz music's all-time most heralded artist – on the track "Miss Otis Regrets".[143]. Lloyd was born in Michigan, and was a well-known inventor. In 1991, she released Mas Canciones, a follow-up to the first Canciones. It quickly climbed into the Top Five on the Billboard Album Chart and sold over a million copies. Genealogies of Linda Ronstadt – http://www.geni.com At a 2006 concert in Canada, Ronstadt told the Calgary Sun that she was "embarrassed George Bush (was) from the United States. [163][164] In late 2019, it was reported that her doctors have revised their diagnosis and instead believe Ronstadt has progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative disease that is commonly mistaken for Parkinson's due to the similarity of the symptoms. Both albums were later deleted from the Elektra/Asylum catalog. The album was also a nominee for overall Album of the Year, in the company of Michael Jackson, U2, Prince, and Whitney Houston. But needing someone willing to work with her as an equal, Ronstadt asked Peter Asher, who came highly recommended to her by James Taylor's sister Kate Taylor, to help produce two of them: "Sail Away" and "I Believe in You".[73]. Photo: Shout Factory. It was the last time Linda Ronstadt would record an album, having begun to lose her singing ability as a result of a degenerative condition later determined to be progressive supranuclear palsy, but initially diagnosed as Parkinson's disease, in December 2012. Toward the end of the show, as she had done across the country, Ronstadt spoke to the audience, praising Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's documentary film about the Iraq War; she dedicated the song "Desperado" to Moore. She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016. Ronstadt is considered an "interpreter of her times",[79] and has earned praise for her courage to put her "stamp" on many of her songs. However, Ronstadt's displeasure with the final result led her, with regrets, to scrap the project. [73] Although hesitant at first to work with her because of her reputation for being a "woman of strong opinions (who) knew what she wanted to do (with her career)", he nonetheless agreed to become her full-time producer,[75] and remained in that role through the late 1980s. It also included an interpretation of Willie Nelson's ballad "Crazy", which became a Top 10 Country hit for Ronstadt in early 1977. [135] Luisa Espinel, Ronstadt's aunt, was an international singer in the 1920s and 1930s. It was climbing the pop and country charts but "Heat Wave", a rockified version of the 1963 hit by Martha and the Vandellas, was receiving considerable airplay. Show some grace". [166] Accounts say the crowd's initial reaction was mixed, with "half the crowd heartily applauding her praise for Moore, (and) the other half booing. The duo won both the 1989 and 1990 Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal awards. In 1987, she made a return to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with "Somewhere Out There", which peaked at number 2 in March. By the late 1980s, while enjoying the success of her big band jazz collaborations with Riddle and her surprise hit mariachi recordings, Ronstadt elected to return to recording mainstream pop music once again. She says her manager Peter Asher kicked Leibovitz out of the house when she visited to show them the photographs prior to publication. Ronstadt elected to return to the Broadway stage, four years after she performed in La bohème, for a limited-run engagement. "My mother's side of my soul was the Nelson Riddle stuff. In 1975, Ronstadt performed shows with Jackson Browne, the Eagles, and Toots and the Maytals. Asylum pulled the "Love Is a Rose" single and issued "Heat Wave" with "Love Is a Rose" on the B-side. [31] Linda Ronstadt's great-grandfather, graduate engineer Friedrich August Ronstadt (who went by Federico Augusto Ronstadt) immigrated to the Southwest (then a part of Mexico) in the 1840s from Hanover, Germany, and married a Mexican citizen, eventually settling in Tucson. Adieu False Heart, recorded in Louisiana, features a cast of local musicians, including Chas Justus, Eric Frey and Kevin Wimmer of the Red Stick Ramblers, Sam Broussard of the Mamou Playboys, Dirk Powell, and Joel Savoy, as well as an array of Nashville musicians: fiddler Stuart Duncan, mandolinist Sam Bush, and guitarist Bryan Sutton. Swampwater went on to back Ronstadt during TV appearances on The Johnny Cash Show[70] and The Mike Douglas Show, and at the Big Sur Folk Festival. [3] On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. "[174], On January 16, 2010, Ronstadt converged with thousands of other activists in a "National Day of Action". In 1989, Ronstadt released a mainstream pop album and several popular singles. She’s extremely liberal in her political thinking and unquestionably antiapartheid. [122][123][124] At the time, she stated, "the last place for a boycott is in the arts" and "I don't like being told I can't go somewhere". (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (function() { Linda Ronstadt started her long and diverse singing career as "the clear-voiced, country-influenced singer" for the band the Stone Poneys, according to AllMusic.She was born in 1946 in Tucson, Arizona, to a musical family, and sang at home from a very young age. Ronstadt herself has indicated that some of her 1970s hits were recorded under considerable pressure to create commercially successful recordings, and that she prefers many of her songs that were non-hit album tracks. She has said that "all girl singers" eventually "have to curtsy to Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday". Her remarks drew international headlines. She has earned herself 10 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Rolling Stone put Ronstadt on its cover in March 1975. Canciones de Mi Padre won Ronstadt a Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance. [74], 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. [125] Paul Simon was criticized for including her on his 1986 album Graceland, recorded in South Africa, but defended her: "I know that her intention was never to support the government there ... She made a mistake. The trio released three albums in a 15-month period in 1967–68: The Stone Poneys; Evergreen, Volume 2; and Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. Copeman, with nearly 700 patents to his name, invented an early form of the toaster, many refrigerator devices, the grease gun, the first electric stove, and an early form of the microwave oven. "[134] What's New is the first album by a rock singer to have major commercial success in rehabilitating the Great American Songbook.[134]. Simple Dreams became one of the singer's best-selling international-selling albums as well, reaching number 1 on the Australian and Canadian Pop and Country Albums charts. She published an autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir,[25] in September 2013. Keeping with the Ronstadt history theme, her cover art was dramatic, bold, and colorful; it shows Ronstadt in full Mexican regalia. He's an idiot. [118], In 1988, Ronstadt returned to Broadway for a limited-run engagement in the musical show adaptation of her album celebrating her Mexican heritage, Canciones De Mi Padre – A Romantic Evening in Old Mexico.[119]. [175], On April 29, 2010, Ronstadt began a campaign, including joining a lawsuit,[176] against Arizona's new illegal-immigration law SB 1070 calling it a "devastating blow to law enforcement ... the police don't protect us in a democracy with brute force", something she said she learned from her brother, Peter, who was Chief of Police in Tucson. This remains her most recent commercially available recording as lead vocalist. Ronstadt, who had already paid for studio time‍—‌and owed her record company a finished album‍—‌removed Parton's individual tracks at Parton's request, kept Harris's vocals, and produced a number of the recordings, which she subsequently released on her 1995 return to country rock, the album Feels Like Home. Ronstadt was nominated for three Lo Nuestro Awards in 1993: Female Regional Mexican Artist of the Year, Female Tropical/Salsa Artist of the Year, and her version of the song "Perfidia" was also listed for Tropical/Salsa Song of the Year.[141]. She's an extremely determined woman, in every area. [38] She remained a highly successful touring artist into the 1990s, at which time she decided to scale back to smaller venues. Birth Name: Linda Maria Ronstadt. She also appeared on Glass's follow-up recording 1000 Airplanes on the Roof. [169] Following the incident, many friends of Ronstadt's, including the Eagles, immediately cancelled their engagements at the Aladdin. She voiced herself in The Simpsons episode "Mr. In that song, there is a verse dedicated to Ronstadt, her voice and harmonies and her birth in Tucson, Arizona. Amid reports of mixed public response, Ronstadt continued her praise of Moore and his film throughout her 2004 and 2006 summer concerts across North America. The album featured a sexy, revealing cover shot and showcased Ronstadt the singer-songwriter, who composed two of its songs, "Try Me Again" (co-authored with Andrew Gold) and "Lo Siento Mi Vida". She's Singing Her Love Songs to, "UN`s `Register` Of Performers Raises Blacklist Spectre In S. 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The family was featured in Family Circle magazine in 1953. This album fared slightly better than its predecessor, reaching number 75. During her childhood, she used to play guitar along with her siblings. Are you glamorous? "[66], Several years before Ronstadt became what author Gerri Hirshey called the first "arena-class rock diva" with "hugely anticipated tours"[38] she began her solo career touring the North American concert circuit. She would go on to parlay her mass commercial appeal with major success in interpreting The Great American Songbook – made famous a generation before by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald – and later the Mexican folk songs of her childhood. The album itself was nominated for the Album of the Year Grammy. PBS's Great Performances aired the stage show during its annual fund drives and the show was a hit with audiences, earning Ronstadt a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. [68], Soon after she went solo in the late 1960s, one of her first backing bands was the pioneering country-rock band Swampwater, which combined Cajun and swamp-rock elements in their music. Linda’s paternal grandfather, Frederick Augustus Ronstadt, was married to Sara Levin, who was the sister of Henry Levin, the maternal great-grandfather of actress Natalia Livingston. The tour group, which included Linda Ronstadt, were traveling to Banámichi, the birthplace of the Ronstadt patriarch, Federico José María Ronstadt. Their performances will constitute a singular and historic night of entertainment for New Year's Eve in Los Angeles."[142]. Photo: Shout Factory She said that her singing style was shaped by the music she grew up with, even on her 1970s and ’80s pop hits such as “Blue Bayou,” “When Will I Be Loved” and “You’re No Good.” I was so enamored by her that I carried a picture of her in my wallet for all four years of college. It included an ethereal cover of Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" which became a popular music video. Most of Ronstadt's albums are certified gold, platinum, or multi-platinum. Ronstadt, who is 72, returned to the Río Sonora region where her grandfather was born. “He’s a natural teacher and muse.” In the trailer, Browne adds, “Look, if Linda Ronstadt invites you to go to Mexico, I don’t need any more than that. [76], —Linda Ronstadt, on reconciling her musical instincts with rock 'n' roll. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time. "[120] By 1983, her estimated worth was over $40 million[121] mostly from records, concerts and merchandising. *father – Mexican [Spanish, possibly other], one quarter German, one eighth English, 1/16th Italian It included New Age arrangements such as the lead single "Heartbeats Accelerating" as well as the self-penned title track and featured the glass harmonica. Linda’s grandmother Maria Guadalupe was born in Arizona, or in Sonora, Mexico. [95] It sold over 3½ million copies in less than a year in the U.S. alone – a record for a female artist. Do you have clout? All Rights Reserved. And release yourself ... an exercise in exorcism. Souther producing most of the album's tracks. In 2008 Australia's Raven Records released a compilation CD titled The Stone Poneys. [36] By the end of the decade, the singer whom the Chicago Sun Times described as the "Dean of the 1970s school of female rock singers"[80] became what Redbook called "the most successful female rock star in the world. She is a major supporter and admirer of sustainable agriculture pioneer Wes Jackson, saying in 2000, "the work he's doing right now is the most important work there is in the (United States)",[154] and dedicating the rock anthem "Desperado" to him at an August 2007 concert in Kansas City, Kansas. "[89], Although Ronstadt had been a cult favorite on the music scene for several years, 1975 was "remembered in the music biz as the year when 29-year-old Linda Ronstadt belatedly happened."[90]. [98] In 2004, she was interviewed for CBS This Morning[102] and stated that this image was not her because she did not sit like that. Ronstadt has also appeared on albums by a vast range of artists including Emmylou Harris, the Chieftains, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, J. D. Souther, Gram Parsons, Bette Midler, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Earl Scruggs, the Eagles, Andrew Gold, Wendy Waldman, Hoyt Axton, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Ann Savoy, Karla Bonoff, James Taylor, Jimmy Webb, Valerie Carter, Warren Zevon, Maria Muldaur, Randy Newman (specifically his musical adaptation of Faust), Nicolette Larson, the Seldom Scene, Rosemary Clooney, Aaron Neville, Rodney Crowell, Hearts and Flowers, Laurie Lewis and Flaco Jiménez. In 2001, it was certified double-platinum by the RIAA for shipments of over 2 million copies in the United States, making it the best-selling non-English-language album in U.S. music history. "Heat Wave" hit the Top Five on Billboard's Hot 100 while "Love Is A Rose" hit the Top Five on Billboard's country chart. Establishing her professional career in the mid-1960s at the forefront of California's emerging folk rock and country rock movements – genres which defined post-1960s rock music – Ronstadt joined forces with Bobby Kimmel and Kenny Edwards and became the lead singer of a folk-rock trio, the Stone Poneys. With this in mind, Ronstadt fuses country and rock into a special union. Linda Ronstadt is an American singer and actress. She continued to tour, collaborate, and record celebrated albums, such as Winter Light and Hummin' to Myself, until her retirement in 2011. Since leaving Warner Music, Ronstadt has gone on to release one album each under Verve and Vanguard Records. Ronstadt produced and performed a theatrical stage show, also titled Canciones de mi Padre, in concert halls across the U.S. and Latin America to both Hispanic and non-Hispanic audiences. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com, Genealogy of Linda’s father’s family – http://www.genealogy.com, Genealogy of Linda’s father (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.findagrave.com, Tags: DutchEnglishGermanItalianMexicanSpanishSpanish-Mexican, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Ronstadt, http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/c/q/Edith-Frampton/GENE1-0004.html, perhaps her great-grandmother’s brother: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18922273, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=dowfam3&id=I211170. Rolling Stone wrote, a whole generation "but for her, might never have heard the work of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, or Elvis Costello."[81]. In the summer of 1999, she released the album Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, a folk-rock-oriented project with Emmylou Harris. In 2011, Ronstadt was interviewed by the Arizona Daily Star and announced her retirement. [93] The album's second single release, "When Will I Be Loved" – an uptempo country-rock version of a Top 10 Everly Brothers song – hit number 1 in Cashbox and number 2 in Billboard. However, Sara was not Linda’s grandmother. She has 15 albums on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, including four that hit number 1. [127], Ronstadt's recording output in the 1980s proved to be just as commercially and critically successful as her 1970s recordings. [93] Featured in the animated film An American Tail, the sentimental duet with James Ingram was nominated for several Grammy Awards, ultimately winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. His flexible rubber ice cube tray earned him millions of dollars in royalties.[35]. At the end of 1987, Ronstadt released Canciones de Mi Padre, an album of traditional Mexican folk songs, or what she has described as "world class songs". It was a considerable hit, holding the number 1 position on Billboard's Country Albums chart for five weeks running and hitting the Top 10 on the pop side also. [130] Ronstadt did not completely turn her back on her rock and roll past, however; the video for the title track featured Danny Kortchmar as the old beau that she bumped into during a rainstorm. In the 1970s, Cashbox magazine, a competitor of Billboard during that time period, named Ronstadt the "#1 Female Artist of the Decade". In the 1980s, Ronstadt performed on Broadway and received a Tony nomination for her performance in The Pirates of Penzance,[42] teamed with the composer Philip Glass, recorded traditional music, and collaborated with the conductor Nelson Riddle, an event at that time viewed as an original and unorthodox move for a rock-and-roll artist. "[93] Ronstadt co-starred with Kline and Angela Lansbury in the 1983 operetta's film version; this was her only acting role in a motion picture (her other film appearances, such as in the 1978 drama, FM, being concert footage as herself). Her success however did not translate across the Atlantic to the UK. She set records as one of the top-grossing concert artists of the decade. Linda’s great-grandmother Maria was also of Mexican origin, the daughter of Francisco Vasquez and Maria Concepcion/Consepcion “Chona” Suastegui/Saustegui. According to jazz historian Peter Levinson, author of the book September in the Rain – a Biography on Nelson Riddle, Joe Smith, president of Elektra Records, was terrified that the Riddle album would turn off Ronstadt's rock audience. When (we) sang, it was a beautiful and different sound I've never heard before. The album was a quiet affair for Ronstadt, giving few interviews and making only one television performance as promotion. It remains her only album between 1975 and 1990 not to be officially certified platinum. Powered by  - Designed with the Hueman theme, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18922273, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133555942, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62376409. 1.7 million as of 2010); and For Sentimental Reasons (1986‍—‌U.S. Espinel's father was Fred Ronstadt, Linda Ronstadt's grandfather, and the songs she had learned, transcribed, and published were some of the ones he had brought with him from Sonora. When it became apparent I wouldn't change my mind, he said: 'I love Nelson so much! [24], On April 10, 2014, Linda Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. rcds.appendChild(rcel); [62] The Silk Purse album cover showed Ronstadt in a muddy pigpen, while the back and inside cover depicted her onstage wearing bright red. At the end of 1977, Ronstadt surpassed the success of Heart Like a Wheel with her album Simple Dreams, which held the number 1 position for five consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. The release continued her streak of Top 40 hits with "Get Closer" and "I Knew You When" – a 1965 hit by Billy Joe Royal – while the Jimmy Webb song "Easy For You To Say" was a surprise Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit in the spring of 1983. Although Ronstadt's duets, "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram and "Don't Know Much" with Aaron Neville, peaked at numbers 8 and 2 respectively in 1987 and 1989, the single "Blue Bayou" was her only solo single to reach the UK Top 40. Billboard Hot 100 Top Ten at the same time. She has won 11 competitive Grammy Awards and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2011. Learning to play music together does all this and more. The song also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and achieved high sales, earning a million-selling gold single in the U.S. – one of the last 45s ever to do so. In 1978 alone, she made over $12 million[29] (equivalent to $44,000,000 in 2016 dollars)[110] and in the same year her albums sales were reported to be 17 million – grossing over $60 million[111] (equivalent to a gross of over $220,000,000, in 2016 dollars). At that time, Ronstadt's U.S. album sales were certified by the Recording Industry Association of America at over 30 million albums sold; however, Peter Asher, her former producer and manager, placed her total U.S. album sales at over 45 million. Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. But I wouldn't choose to show a picture like that to anybody who didn't know me personally, because only friends could get the other sides of me in balance. Suddenly, Linda Ronstadt was more than a famous singer—a “Linda Ronstadt” became a sizzling, unhittable strike that you watched as it just Blue Bayou #Baseball The #1 Selling Pitching Machine Company in the World. [98], By the mid-1970s, Ronstadt's image became just as famous as her music. Linda Ronstadt could sing it all. The same year, she completed a concert tour around Europe. There is a new royalty ruling today's record charts."[111]. The artwork won its art director, Kosh, his second Grammy Award for Best Album Package. Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. Linda’s maternal grandfather was Lloyd Groff Copeman (the son of John Wesley Copeman and Caroline Estelle Groff). I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. III. [138] Ronstadt included New Orleans soul singer Aaron Neville on several of the album's songs. Ronstadt has been honored for her contribution to the American arts. Linda Ronstadt is one of the 2019 recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, airing on Sunday, December 15 at 8/7c on CBS.The honor celebrates Ronstadt’s lifetime … In many instances, her own interpretations were more successful than the original recordings, and many times new songwriters were discovered by a larger audience as a result of her interpretation and recording. On the heels of this success, Steven Spielberg asked Ronstadt to record the theme song for the animated sequel titled An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, which was titled "Dreams to Dream". Now, with the release of Linda and the Mockingbirds (Shout! [157] Speaking of finding an acceptable mate, in 1974 she told Peter Knobler in Crawdaddy, "... he's real kind but isn't inspired musically and then you meet somebody else that's just so inspired musically that he just takes your breath away but he's such a moron, such a maniac that you can't get along with him. [170], In 2007, Ronstadt resided in San Francisco while also maintaining her home in Tucson. [55], Media related to Linda Ronstadt at Wikimedia Commons. This album was titled Frenesí. Ronstadt received a Golden Globe nomination for the role in the film version. March 7, 2016, Ethnicity: The album reached number 78 in Billboard and won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children. [55] Their repertoire included the music they grew up on – folk, country, bluegrass, and Mexican. Her three biggest-selling studio albums to date are: her 1977 release Simple Dreams, 1983's What's New and 1989's Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind. Ronstadt has said she wants to sing in places similar to the theatre of ancient Greece, where the attention is focused on the stage and the performer. She was a granddaughter of Lloyd Groff Copeman, a prolific inventor and holder of many patents. [4][15] In 2019, she received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio. In 1991, Ronstadt acted in the lead role of archangel San Miguel in La Pastorela, or A Shephard's Tale, a musical filmed at San Juan Bautista. [92] She was the first female in music history to score three consecutive platinum albums and ultimately racked up a total of eight consecutive platinum albums. Everybody has their own level of doing their music. The album featured Ronstadt's first country hit, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", which she had first recorded on Hand Sown ... Home Grown – this time hitting the Country Top 20. Margarita was Mexican, the daughter of José María Redondo y Gortari, whose father was Spanish and whose mother was Italian, and of Antonia Jesusita/Jesus Vasquez. Each one has been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America for over three million copies sold. 1 With a Bullet", "Years after giving up singing, Linda Ronstadt is back on the charts with 'Live in Hollywood, "Pat Benatar: Rock's Reluctant Sex Symbol", "Rock Queen Conquers Broadway and Lives Happily Ever After", "Linda Ronstadt Live. It was an album of roots music incorporating pop, Cajun, and early-20th-century music and released on the Vanguard Records label. Hazel was born in Michigan. [32][33] In 1991, the City of Tucson opened its central transit terminal on March 16 and dedicated it to Linda's grandfather, Federico José María Ronstadt, a local pioneer businessman; he was a wagon maker whose early contribution to the city's mobility included six mule-drawn streetcars delivered in 1903–04. 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