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〕 | birth_date = | birth_place = Tucson, Arizona, U.S. | origin = | instrument = Vocals, guitar, percussion | genre = Rock, rock and roll, folk, country rock, soft rock, jazz, big band, art rock | occupation = Singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, actress | years_active = 1967–2011 | label = Capitol, Asylum, Verve, Rhino | associated_acts = The Stone Poneys, the Eagles, Aaron Neville, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Swampwater, Emmylou Harris, Nelson Riddle, Jackson Browne | website = }} Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American popular music singer. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, and numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. Ronstadt has collaborated with artists from a diverse spectrum of genres including Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle. She has lent her voice to over 120 albums and has sold more than 100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.〔http://lyricswww.ronstadt-linda.com/guestapp.doc〕〔http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/musical-memoirs-hit-some-high-notes〕 Christopher Loudon of ''Jazz Times'' noted in 2004, Ronstadt is "Blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation … rarest of rarities a chameleon who can blend into any background yet remain boldly distinctive … It's an exceptional gift; one shared by few others." In total, she has released over 30 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. Ronstadt charted 38 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles, with 21 reaching the top 40, 10 in the top 10, three at number 2, and "You're No Good" at number 1. This success did not translate to the UK, with only her single "Blue Bayou" reaching the UK Top 40.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=2688 )〕 Her duet with Aaron Neville, "Don't Know Much", peaked at number 2 in December 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Don't Know Much )〕 In addition, she has charted 36 albums, 10 top-10 albums and three number 1 albums on the ''Billboard'' Pop Album Chart. In a 2011 interview with the ''Arizona Daily Star'' she said, "I am 100 percent retired and I'm not doing anything any more". It was announced publicly in August 2013 that Ronstadt had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in December 2012, which left her unable to sing. Her autobiography, ''Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir'', was released in September 2013. It debuted in the Top 10 on The New York Times Best Sellers List. Ronstadt was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. ==Early life== Linda Maria Ronstadt was born in 1946 in Tucson, Arizona, the daughter of Gilbert Ronstadt (1911–1995), a prosperous machinery merchant who ran the F. Ronstadt Co., and Ruth Mary (Copeman) Ronstadt (1914–1982), a homemaker. Ronstadt was raised on the family's ranch with siblings Peter (who served as Tucson's Chief of Police for ten years, 1981–1991), Michael J., and Gretchen (Suzy). The family was featured in ''Family Circle'' magazine in 1953. Linda's father, Gilbert, came from a pioneering Arizona ranching family〔 and was of German, English, and Mexican ancestry. The family's influence and contributions to Arizona's history, including wagon making, commerce, pharmacies, and music, are chronicled in the library of the University of Arizona. Linda Ronstadt's great-grandfather, graduate engineer Friedrich August Ronstadt (who went by the name Federico Augusto Ronstadt) emigrated to the West (then a part of Mexico) in the 1840s from Hanover, Germany, and married a Mexican citizen, and eventually settled in Tucson.〔http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/ford_times.html〕 In 1991, the City of Tucson opened its central transit terminal on March 16 and dedicated it to Linda's grandfather, local pioneer businessman Federico José María Ronstadt. Ronstadt was a wagon maker whose early contribution to the city's mobility included six mule-drawn streetcars delivered in 1903–04. Her mother Ruth Mary, of German, English, and Dutch descent, was raised in the Flint, Michigan, area. She was the daughter of Lloyd Groff Copeman, a prolific inventor and holder of many patents. Lloyd, 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. His flexible rubber ice cube tray earned him millions of dollars in royalties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=LloydCopeman.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Linda Ronstadt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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