Learned this morning that one of my all-time favorite singers can sing no more. Linda Ronstadt, in an interview with AARP magazine, revealed that she has Parkinson’s disease and it has left her unable to sing.
What a sad turn of events for a woman who could literally sing anything – in any genre.
I first became a fan when she released Different Drum with a group called the Stone Poneys (Their spelling-not mine) back in 1967. Over the years, I loved her offerings in a multitude of styles – Rock, Country, Light Opera (Pirates of Penzance) , Torch Songs (with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra), and some great traditional Mariachi music in Canciones de Mi Padre.
There just wasn’t any type of song that she couldn’t sing and sing well, but now she is destined to live out her life without singing at all.
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