Desperado, why don't you come to your senses//You've been out ridin' fences//for so long-now//Ohh you're a hard one... Linda Ronstadt (b. July 15, 1946) is an American popular music recording artist. Her many vocal styles and performances in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the decades. She has earned ten Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden Globe nominations. A singer-songwriter and record producer, she is recognized as a definitive interpreter of songs. Being one of music's most versatile and commercially successful female singers in US history, she is recognized for her many public stages of self-reinvention and incarnations. With a one time standing as the Queen of Rock where she was bestowed the title of "highest paid woman in rock", and known as the First Lady of Rock, she has more recently emerged as music matriarch, international arts advocate and Human Rights advocate.[8][9] Ronstadt has collaborated with artists from a diverse spectrum of genres -- including Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, The Chieftains, Gram Parsons -- perhaps more than any popular music vocalist in modern US history; she has lent her voice to over 120 albums around the world.[11] As Christopher Loudon of Jazz Times noted in 2004, Ronstadt is <b>...</b>
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