On this day in 1946,Linda Ronstadt was born. She is an American popular music vocalist and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career. As a result, she has earned multiple 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.^[1] Being one of music’s most versatile, and commercially successful female singers in U.S. history, she is recognized for her many public stages of self-reinvention and public incarnations.^[2] With a one time standing as the Queen of Rock^[3][4] where she was bestowed the title of “highest paid woman in rock”,^[5][6] and known as the First Lady of Rock, she has more recently emerged as music matriarch and a national arts advocate.^[7] In total, she has released over 30 solo albums, more than 15 compilations or greatest hits albums, and has collaborated with and made guest vocal appearances with various artists on over 120 other albums.^[8][9] Ronstadt has charted thirty-eight Billboard Hot 100 singles, twenty-one of which have reached the top 40, ten of which have reached the top 10, three peaking at No. 2, the No. 1 hit, “You’re No Good“, in addition to charting thirty-six albums, ten Top 10 albums, and three No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 Pop Album Charts .

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