Linda Maria Ronstadt is a retired American singer. Linda Maria Ronstadt was born on July 15, 1946, in Tucson, Arizona, the third of four children to Gilbert Ronstad, a prosperous machinery merchant who ran the F. Ronstadt Co., and Ruth Mary Ronstadt, a homemaker. Ronstadt grew up on the family’s 10-acre ranch with her siblings Peter (who served as Tucson’s Chief of Police for ten years), Michael, and Gretchen. In 1953, Family Circle magazine featured the family.
Ronstadt grew up in a musical family, which influenced the stylistic and musical choices she made later in her career. Ronstadt grew up listening to a wide range of music, including Mexican music, which was sung by her entire family and was a staple of her childhood.
Ronstadt has stated that everything she has recorded on her own records – rock and roll, rhythm and blues, gospel, opera, country, choral, and mariachi – is music she heard her family sing in their living room or heard on the radio when she was 10 years old.
Who was the love of Linda Ronstadt’s life?
Jerry Brown was the love of Linda Ronstadt’s life. “The governor and the rock queen,” declared one magazine cover in 1979. “Brown and Ronstadt.” There was perhaps no odder odd couple in the overlapping worlds of celebrity and politics in the 1970s than California Governor.
