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Post by the Scribe on Sept 24, 2020 2:47:05 GMT
 hispanicheritage.org/Linda Ronstadt to receive Legend Award during PBS broadcast of 33rd Hispanic Heritage Awards October 6thSeptember 21, 2020
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) today announced that 10-Time Grammy Winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Linda Ronstadt will receive the Legend Award and be honored with a special musical tribute during the October 6th PBS broadcast of the 33rd Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. The Award and tribute performance will be presented by AARP who returns as the Legend Medallion sponsor. Ronstadt will join Bad Bunny (Vision Award), Selena Gomez (Arts Award), Jessica Alba (Business Award), and America’s essential farmworkers (Heroes Award) on the telecast – with performers, host and tributes set to be announced over the next two weeks.
“The Hispanic Heritage Foundation is absolutely honored to recognize the amazing Linda Ronstadt with the Legend Award,” said Jose Antonio Tijerino, President and CEO of HHF. “Linda has boldly taken chances throughout her remarkable career jumping across genres, culture and gender barriers, by leaning on her powerful voice, indefatigable spirit, and work ethic. Linda represents so many things to so many people and we’re proud to know that she carries her Mexican and Latino heritage as a source of inspiration. He legacy continues to this day through younger singers and will for generations. We are thrilled to partner with AARP to celebrate Linda and the other 2020 Honorees with all of America during the PBS broadcast during Hispanic Heritage Month.”
Linda Ronstadt is one of the most artistically diverse recording artists of the last 50 years, and a pioneer in stretching the boundaries of popular music. After making her mark as the top-selling female rock artist of the 1970s, she has branched out into almost every area of music, from her starring role in Pirates Of Penzance on Broadway, to her multi-platinum renditions of the Great American Songbook with Nelson Riddle; and from her hugely successful country albums with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton, to her ground-breaking interpretations of the great mariachi classics in Canciones de mi Padre. Along the way, she has sold millions of CDs and won numerous awards, including a dozen Grammys.
Throughout her long career, Linda has been also been active in education and community affairs. She has served as the Artistic Director of the San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival in Northern California, where she helped to transform the event into a vibrant three-day celebration of Mexican-American music and culture. She is equally passionate about music in America’s schools – her testimony in before the United States Congress on the importance of music education made a considerable impact throughout the country.
In 2011, Linda received a special Latin Grammy for Lifetime Achievement, followed by her 2013 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the release of her autobiography, Simple Dreams, A Musical Memoir, which made the New York Times best-seller list and kicked off an extensive book tour. Linda’s unrivaled career has continued to be recognized with many of our country’s highest honors, including President Obama’s 2014 presentation of the National Medal of Arts at the White House, a 2016 special Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, and last’s year emotional tribute at the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors. Throughout these recent years, Linda has also continued to delight fans with very special events and releases such as her 2014 to 2018, highly-acclaimed one-woman show, A Conversation with Linda Ronstadt, and the 2019 arrivals of Linda Ronstadt – Live in Hollywood, (her first and only live concert album, recorded on April 24, 1980), and the highly-acclaimed documentary Linda Ronstadt: “The Sound of My Voice.”
“Linda, through her art and her advocacy, has inspired not just older adults, but people from all ages and backgrounds to pursue their goals,” said Yvette Peña, Vice President of Hispanic/Latino Audience Strategy at AARP. “We celebrate her and all of this year’s honorees because they use their talents to make a positive impact on the Hispanic community and help people of diverse backgrounds feel empowered — at any life stage.”
The Hispanic Heritage Awards were created by the White House in 1988 to commemorate the establishment of Hispanic Heritage Month in America and is among the highest honors by Latinos for Latinos and supported by 40 national Hispanic-serving institutions. For a video, visit
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In keeping with current COVID-19 mitigation guidance and with the safety of participants in mind as well as the increased impact the pandemic has had on communities of color, the Hispanic Heritage Awards and PBS broadcast will not include a live ceremony but will feature more intimately filmed performances and Honoree segments filmed on location across the United States and Latin America.
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About the Hispanic Heritage Foundation
The Hispanic Heritage Awards serve as a launch of HHF’s year-round, innovative, high-impact, actionable programs focused on education, workforce, leadership and culture. HHF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For more information, visit www.hispanicheritage.org and follow the Hispanic Heritage Foundation on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
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About AARP
AARP is the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation’s largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org or follow @aarp and @aarpadvocates on social media.
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For more information on the 2020 Hispanic Heritage Awards, please contact John Reilly (jreilly@jrprmusic.com)
To sponsor the Hispanic Heritage Awards, contact Jessica Herrera (Jessica@HispanicHeritage.org).
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 24, 2020 2:52:45 GMT
Linda Ronstadt will receive the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Legend Award on PBSwww.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/09/21/linda-ronstadt-receive-hispanic-heritage-foundations-legend-award/5853860002/
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Linda Ronstadt will receive the Legend Award on the PBS broadcast of the 33rd Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards on Oct. 6, where the Tucson native's music will be celebrated with a musical tribute.
Other recipients include Bad Bunny (Vision Award), Selena Gomez (Arts Award), Jessica Alba (Business Award) and America’s essential farmworkers (Heroes Award).
Performers, host and tributes will be announced over the next two weeks.
The Award and tribute performance will be presented by AARP, which returns as the Legend Medallion sponsor.
In a press release, HHF President and CEO Jose Antonio Tijerino said the Foundation was honored to honor Ronstadt.
“Linda has boldly taken chances throughout her remarkable career jumping across genres, culture and gender barriers, by leaning on her powerful voice, indefatigable spirit, and work ethic," Tijerino said.
"Linda represents so many things to so many people and we’re proud to know that she carries her Mexican and Latino heritage as a source of inspiration. Her legacy continues to this day through younger singers and will for generations."
How Linda Ronstadt became a legend
The Tucson native, who attended the University of Arizona, became one of the the most successful female singers of her generation, selling out "stupid" arenas, as she calls them, thanks to hits as huge as "When Will I Be Loved" and "Blue Bayou."
Having launched her career in 1967 with the breakthrough single "Different Drum," a baroque ballad credited to the Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt, she managed a career-defining run of 10 Top 20 singles from 1975's "You're No Good" to 1980's "Hurt So Bad."
Glenn Frey was one of Linda Ronstadt's backing musicians in a scene from "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice."
From there, she branched out into almost every area of music, from her starring role in "Pirates Of Penzance" on Broadway to her multiplatinum renditions of the Great American Songbook with Nelson Riddle, interpreting the mariachi classics in "Canciones de mi Padre" and teaming with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton on country albums.
After earning a Tony nomination in 1981 for her role in "The Pirates of Penzance," she moved on from the country, pop and rock sound of her hit years, recording a trilogy of albums celebrating the Great American Songbook with conductor Nelson Riddle.
These were followed by "Trio," a 1986 collaboration with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris, and 1987's "Canciones De Mi Padre," the singer's first album of traditional Mexican mariachi music.
In an interview with The Republic in 2018, Ronstadt said, "In the ‘90s, I did my best singing. That was when I could sort of do whatever I wanted to do. I could make my voice do it."
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Along the way, she's sold millions of CDs, won a dozen Grammys and been inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
She's also been active in education and community affairs.
Ronstadt served as the Artistic Director of the San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival in Northern California, where she helped to transform the event into a vibrant three-day celebration of Mexican-American music and culture.
Her testimony before the United States Congress on the importance of music education made a considerable impact throughout the country.
Emmylou Harris (left) and Linda Ronstadt perform in "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice."
In 2011, Linda received a special Latin Grammy for Lifetime Achievement.
In 2014, President Obama presented the star with the National Medal of Arts at the White House, followed in 2016 by a well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award and last year by an emotional tribute at the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors.
Last year also brought the documentary "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice," a heartfelt celebration of her life in music by Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in late 2012, she's unable to sing and has retired from performing, although she did tour with a highly-acclaimed one-woman show, A Conversation with Linda Ronstadt, from 2014 to 2018.
The Hispanic Heritage Awards
The Hispanic Heritage Awards were created by the White House in 1988 to commemorate the establishment of Hispanic Heritage Month in America and is among the highest honors by Latinos for Latinos, supported by 40 national Hispanic-serving institutions.
In keeping with current COVID-19 mitigation guidance and with the safety of participants in mind as well as the increased impact the pandemic has had on communities of color, the Hispanic Heritage Awards and PBS broadcast will not include a live ceremony but will feature more intimately filmed performances and Honoree segments filmed on location across the United States and Latin America.
Reach the reporter at ed.masley@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4495. Follow him on Twitter @edmasley.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 26, 2020 12:35:38 GMT
Tucson native, Linda Ronstadt to be honored during Hispanic Heritage Awards
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 26, 2020 12:44:00 GMT
Linda Ronstadt on New Documentary, Her Mexican Heritage and the 2020 Election
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One year after The Sound of My Voice, Linda Ronstadt will star in another documentary: Linda and the Mockingbirds. Directed by James Keach, the film chronicles her 2019 visit to Mexico with Jackson Browne and the students of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy. In the new trailer, Ronstadt, Browne, and Los Cenzontles embark on the bus ride from the Bay Area to Mexico.
Due to Ronstadt’s health (she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2012), she had to be able to lay down during the ride. “That’s another reason for the bus,” she tells Rolling Stone over the phone from her home in San Francisco. “My back can’t take sitting. I had to be as horizontal as possible.”
The group visited the small town of Banámichi, in the state of Sonora, where Ronstadt’s grandfather grew up. “It’s a beautiful, idyllic little town right in the middle of cow country,” she says. “It was a culture that didn’t have electricity until very recently. It’s right next to the river that has the most fertile soil in all of Mexico. The fruit that comes out of there is fantastic. The food traditions are food traditions that I grew up with. It’s really delicious.”
Browne, who has also worked with Los Cenzontles, happily came along for the ride. “The kids love him,” Ronstadt says. “He’s a natural teacher and muse.” In the trailer, Browne adds, “Look, if Linda Ronstadt invites you to go to Mexico, I don’t need any more than that. Let’s go!”
Ronstadt first encountered Los Cenzontles — founded by Eugene Rodriguez — in the early Nineties, and has been a patron ever since. “They were playing music on the street,” she says. “They were playing so well that they stopped me in my tracks.” The singer grew up in Tucson, Arizona, about 40 miles from the Mexican border. With fair skin and a German surname, her Mexican heritage wasn’t always apparent.
“I remember trying to tell Jane Pauley I was Mexican,” she says with a laugh. “She said, ‘You’re not Mexican. How far back in your family do you need to go to get a Mexican name?’ I went, ‘If you go back one generation, you get a Spanish name.
But Spain isn’t Mexico either.’ Mexico is a melting pot. It’s Spanish and German and French and indigenous American/Mexican. I’m all of those things.” As a child, Ronstadt and her family would visit Mexico frequently, often to eat lunch or shop. Her grandfather taught her many standards, which she later recorded on 1987’s Canciones de Mi Padre and 1991’s Mas Canciones.
The heartbreaking “La Orilla De Un Palmar” appears in both documentaries: a young girl performs it for her in Mockingbirds, while Ronstadt and her family sing it in The Sound of My Voice. “We sang with my grandfather to start with, and then we sang with my dad,” she says. “Then my brothers had various integrations with several of my cousins. They had a group and they sang it. You put together any combinations of Ronstadts and they can sing that song. [Laughs.]” Courtesy of PCH Films
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 4, 2020 13:57:40 GMT
Linda Ronstadt, A Hispanic Heritage 'Legend,' On Staying Connected
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Linda Ronstadt in the documentary Linda and the Mockingbirds. Ronstadt is set to be honored in the Legend category by the Hispanic Heritage Awards.
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Linda Ronstadt — the chart-topping, Grammy- and Emmy-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famer — is due to be honored again this week. This time, she'll receive a Hispanic Heritage Award, in recognition both of her pop music and her smash-hit mariachi albums. Ahead of the virtual ceremony, which will be broadcast by PBS on Oct. 6, she joined NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro to talk about the role of her Mexican-American identity in her career and what music she's been listening to lately. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read on for an edited transcript.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro: A lot people didn't realize that you have roots in Mexico until you released your mariachi albums in the late 1980s. How much of an influence did those roots have on your singing?
Tremendous. The singer that had the most influence on my singing style was Lola Beltrán, who is sort of the Piaf of Mexico. You know, Mexican culture is often so taken for granted it's sort of invisible in the United States — it's hard to get through that screen. It wasn't anything that I hid, but it was not as acknowledged as whatever else they were acknowledging.
My vocal style is very influenced by Mexican singing — it's a belt style. I wasn't influenced by blues or [the] Black church as much as most rock and roll people were. I was much more influenced by Mexican music singers and rhythms.
It's now been seven years since you announced that you had Parkinson's, but you've been busy lately. You're featured in an upcoming documentary called Linda and the Mockingbirds.
I had planned to take this trip with this cultural group that I work with called Los Cenzontles. They teach young children from the ages of 6 to 19 how to play traditional Mexican music, how to play the instruments, sing and dance, and they also teach visual art. It's one of the most exciting things I've ever been involved with; I've been working with them for almost 30 years now. They teach children to play music, not to be in performing fields but to use it socially, to express their emotions and to communicate with each other. And the kids that come out of that program have a much better chance of finishing high school, there's fewer teen pregnancies, more people go to college and finish. Some of them turn out to be really great professional musicians, [but] that's not the goal. The goal is to teach them how to have tools to socialize in a way that connects back to their original culture with pride and dignity.
We had a film crew going with us to Mexico, because they were trying to get the end of documentary they were making about me. Somebody else, I guess, was cooperating with it and they wanted to have an interview. And I said, "If you want an interview, you have to come to Mexico and interview me there." I figured it would be more fun to do that than sit in my living room and be a talking head.
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You've been working with that group for about 30 years. Why is it so important for you to connect with your heritage in that way?
Well, I grew up in the Sonoran Desert, which is an area that exists on both sides of the border. In fact, my family was in that part of the world before this was a country, so to say that we're newcomers is a bit of a stretch. Even here in California, my family came here in '70, '69. So, you know, I resent anybody saying, "Go back where you came from." It's been easier for me because I'm light-skinned and I have a German surname, so I'm sort of a secret Mexican-American. Some people don't realize who they're talking to, and they start making racist remarks.
Has that happened to you?
Oh, yeah. To my father too. He'd be at a cocktail party and somebody would start saying, "These Mexicans that come in here," ... or some ethnic slur. It's not a good thing to do to my dad.
How would he react?
Well he's very stern. He'd put up with no racist talk.
You must have inherited some of his outspokenness. Last year, during a dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors, you very famously took Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to task for "enabling" President Trump. What happened after that? Were there any after-effects?
Chief Justice Roberts came to my box about the following night with Nancy Pelosi and was full of praise — not about that specific thing, but in general. And he sent me, then, an autographed picture of himself and the two of us together. So they couldn't have been too mad [laughs].
What music is getting you through this moment? You know, often in times of difficulty, people gravitate to certain types of music or particular songs that give them comfort. Do you have any of those?
I listen to opera a lot on YouTube. I love it because I can hear one soprano singing an aria from La Traviata, and then I can hear five other ones from different times, from Rosa Ponselle to Maria Callas to Anna Netrebko. It's fun to be able to compare them. But recently, I reinstalled my turntable and got my vinyl albums out, and I put on Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. It was a revelation. Brian Wilson is a genius; I love his music. It cheered me up.
Do you have a big vinyl collection?
No, I have only about 10 records. I gave up all my vinyl when CDs became so ubiquitous, but I never thought they sounded as good as vinyl. So I just got a couple of vinyl pressings of some classic things that I like. Rubber Soul. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, which is a perfect record. Blue by Joni Mitchell, which is another perfect record. Graceland by Paul Simon — all of his records are great, but I'm fond of that one because I sang on it.
Is it true you've discovered a new favorite of yours through NPR's Tiny Desk concert series?
Oh, the South Korean band! What are they called? SsingSsing, I love them!
Tell me why.
They sound like traditional Korean singing, [mixed] with David Bowie, in a garage band. They're totally original; I love them.
Do you have a message for the Latino community at this time since, this is a Hispanic Heritage Award?
Well, keep your powder dry and keep fighting. You know, there's a lot of abuses by ICE in the jails, and the private prison corporations are taking advantage of the fact that they can lock people up for long periods of time with utter neglect. The fact that they're locking children up in cages and separating them from their families, it's just cruel beyond words. It's such a disgrace. People are in the streets rioting — not rioting but they're demonstrating in the streets. They have to keep demonstrating.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 8, 2020 13:10:07 GMT
33rd Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards
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Tune-in Tuesday, October 6 at 7pm for the 33rd Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards on Basin PBS. Celebrate the recipients of the annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. The evening includes performances and appearances by some of the country's most celebrated Hispanic artists and visionaries.
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Let’s celebrate our Hispanic Heritage!
Tune in to the LIVE stream pre-show celebration of the 33rd Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards on October 6th at 7:30pm (ET).
Let’s continue the celebration at 8:00pm (ET) on PBS or PBS.org! Join us to honor Bad Bunny (Vision Award), Selena Gomez (Arts Award), Linda Ronstadt (Legend Award), Jessica Alba (Business Award), America’s essential farmworkers (Heroes Award), Sebastián Yatra (Host & Inspira Award) and John Lewis (Special Ally Recognition).
Enjoy special performances by Calma Carmona, Flor de Toloache, Joy Huerta, Lupita Infante, La Marisoul, The Mavericks, Gaby Moreno, Carla Morrison, Jessie Reyez, Sech and Sebastián Yatra and special presenter appearances by Dolores Huerta & Los Tigres del Norte
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 8, 2020 13:29:54 GMT
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The 33rd Hispanic Heritage Awards will be broadcast on October 6th on PBS stations and stream on PBS.org. In keeping with current COVID-19 mitigation guidance and with the safety of participants in mind, the Hispanic Heritage Awards and PBS broadcast will not include a live ceremony but will feature more intimately filmed performances and Honoree segments filmed on location across the United States and Latin America.
The historic program, which was created by the White House in 1988 to commemorate the establishment of Hispanic Heritage Month in America, is among the highest honors by Latinos for Latinos and supported by 40 national Hispanic-serving institutions. Top Latino performers and personalities pay tribute to the Honorees. The Awards are unique in that celebrities take the stage along with educators, innovators, community and business leaders, elected officials, and others. Surrounding events include a virtual pre-segment and festive virtual After-Party. Stay tuned for the links.
The Awards serve as a launch of HHF’s year-round award-winning programs which inspire, identify, prepare and position Latino leaders in the classroom, community and workforce to meet America’s priorities. HHF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
2020 honorees include:
Hispanic Heritage Award for Vision: Bad Bunny
Hispanic Heritage Award for Business: Jessica Alba
Hispanic Heritage Award for Heroes: Farmworkers
Hispanic Heritage Award for Arts: Selena Gomez
Hispanic Heritage Award for Legend: Linda Ronstadt
Hispanic Heritage Award for Inspira: Sebastián Yatra
Latinx Leaders – #YoSoy Award presented by Instagram |
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 8, 2020 14:04:34 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 13, 2021 9:19:13 GMT
Ronstadt gets the heartfelt tribute she deserves at the Hispanic Heritage Awardswww.msn.com/en-us/music/news/linda-ronstadt-gets-the-heartfelt-tribute-she-deserves-at-the-hispanic-heritage-awards/ar-BB19MkjP
Linda Ronstadt standing in front of a mirror posing for the camera: "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice" explores the career of the Tucson-born singer.© Greenwich Entertainment
"Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice" explores the career of the Tucson-born singer.
The 33rd Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards did a beautiful job of celebrating Linda Ronstadt on Tuesday with a seven-minute tribute to the Arizona native's legacy helmed by the Mavericks with an assortment of Latina vocalists taking a turn in the spotlight.
Ronstadt was one of many well-known figures being honored, from Bad Bunny to Selena Gomez.
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But the ceremony, streaming now on pbs.org, ended with that Ronstadt tribute for a reason.
Jorge and Hernan Hernandez of Los Tigres Del Norte presented the star with the Legend Award.
And Ronstadt, who retired from performing shortly after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in late 2012, taped a segment discussing the life that led her to this latest honor.
"When I was a little kid growing up in Tucson, I didn't think about growing up and being famous," she said. "I thought about growing up and being a singer."
What she found is that it's possible to grow up to be famous and a singer.
What makes Linda Ronstadt a legend
Ronstadt was, in fact, among the most successful singers of her generation, making a name for herself with an impressive run of 10 Top 20 singles, from 1975's "You're No Good" to 1980's "Hurt So Bad."
After earning a Tony nomination in 1981 for her role in "The Pirates of Penzance," she moved on from the country, pop and rock sound of her hit years, recording a trilogy of albums celebrating the Great American Songbook with conductor Nelson Riddle.
It's at that point that she had the industry support to do her dream project at last, a 1987 album titled "Canciones de Mi Padre" honoring the Mexican side of her heritage.
As Ronstadt recalled on the awards show, "I wanted to record Mexican music from the time I left when I was 18. I had a hit record and I asked the record company if I could record in Spanish. They said, 'No.'"
She kept insisting, though.
 Emmylou Harris (left) and Linda Ronstadt perform in "Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice."
"And finally," she said, "I had enough hit records that I could just tell the record company, 'Guess what? This is what you're getting.'"
To the label's credit, Ronstadt says, "they stepped up and tried to figure out how to sell it. They didn't have any idea how to market a Mexican record."
It became the biggest-selling non-English language album in U.S. history.
"I was grateful," Ronstadt said. "I hadn't thought about it while I was making it. I just thought, 'I'm gonna make this record and it's gonna be fine.'"
Ronstadt spoke about her Mexican American heritage
Ronstadt also took the opportunity to address how Mexican Americans have been marginalized and often "made into invisible people."
Ronstadt's grandfather was born in Mexico.
"My grandmother was too," she said. "But it just was called Arizona very shortly afterward.
"We always lived in that area. We didn't move. The border moved, you know? So I was kind of resentful when people would say I wasn't Mexican. I said, 'I am, too. We eat tamales for Christmas. That entitles me to be Mexican.'"
The segment ends with Rondstadt saying, "It's nice to have that part of me validated."
What happened on stage
In introducing the tribute, the Mavericks' Raul Malo acknowledged the fact that he and Ronstadt can't be in the same room, telling her "I wish that I could hug you, but we're in the middle of COVID and so this is gonna have to do. So consider this a hug and love from afar."
The tribute began with a gorgeous read on "Blue Bayou" by Carla Morrison, a Mexican-born vocalist who moved to Arizona in her teens, attending Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe and briefly studying music at Mesa Community College.
The way her vocals blend with Malo's harmonies is enough to make you think those two should record a whole album together.
From there, the tribute dips into the "Canciones de Mi Padre" album with Gaby Moreno on an impassioned "Rogaciano El Huapanguero" before returning to the rock years with Joy Huerta on the horn-fueled "You're No Good."
That hit transitions seamlessly into the mariachi gem "Y Andale" as sung by Lupita Infante, who should also consider an album of duets with Malo.
It's a beautiful performance, followed by La Marisoul bringing the medley to a rousing finish with another rocker, Ronstadt's take on the Everly Brothers classic "When Will I Be Loved."
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On an awards show filmed in any other year, that would have been the point where all the other vocalists would crowd the stage for the finale. But these singers' vocals were all recorded in separate locations, leaving Malo with no one to hug but his bandmates.
The show was hosted by Sebastian Yarta, who also received the Inspira Award to recognize young people who are doing inspiring work as role models for other young people in the Hispanic community.
Other recipients included Bad Bunny (Vision Award), Selena Gomez (Arts Award), Jessica Alba (Business Award) and America’s essential farmworkers (Heroes Award).
Top performances included Yarta and his bandmates opening the broadcast with "A Donde Van," a really nice acoustic ballad performed on a patio as the sun is just starting to set, Jessie Reyez with a soulful, understated "Far Away," and two performances, including a beautiful "Star Spangled Banner," by the all-female mariachi group Flor de Toloache.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 13, 2021 17:06:20 GMT
Linda Ronstadt receives the Legend Award at the 33rd Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards
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The Hispanic Heritage Foundation is absolutely honored to recognize the amazing Linda Ronstadt with the Legend Award.
“Linda has boldly taken chances throughout her remarkable career jumping across genres, culture and gender barriers, by leaning on her powerful voice, indefatigable spirit, and work ethic. Linda represents so many things to so many people and we’re proud to know that she carries her Mexican and Latino heritage as a source of inspiration. He legacy continues to this day through younger singers and will for generations.” Said Jose Antonio Tijerino, President and CEO of HHF.
Please visit our website www.hispanicheritage.org to watch the full show, the honorees segments, and performers - bit.ly/34af5qY
The 33rd Hispanic Heritage Awards was presented by Target and premiered on October 6th on PBS stations. This year’s very special honorees on the broadcast were Linda Ronstadt (Legend Award) Bad Bunny (Vision Award), Selena Gomez (Arts Award), Jessica Alba (Business Award), America’s essential Farmworkers (Heroes Award), Sebastián Yatra (Inspira Award-also Hosting/Performing), and a special posthumous ally recognition of John Lewis.
Spotlighting some of contemporary Latin Music’s fastest rising next generation stars, Jessie Reyez, and Sech also performed their own recently released hit tracks. The broadcast was also highlighted by special themed performances that included New York’s critically praised all-women Mariachi group Flor de Toloache joining with Latino medical workers that were on the front-lines of emergency care during the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis, the soulful Calma Carmona providing an emotional musical remembrance of civil rights icon John Lewis, and The Mavericks anchoring a captivating tribute to Linda Ronstadt featuring a stellar gathering of critically praised Latina vocalists: Joy Huerta, Lupita Infante, La Marisoul, Gaby Moreno and Carla Morrison.
Linda Ronstadt Tribute at the 33rd Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards
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The Mavericks, anchored a captivating tribute to Linda Ronstadt, featuring a stellar gathering of critically praised Latina vocalists; Joy Huerta, Lupita Infante, La Marisoul, Gaby Moreno and Carla Morrison, singing the most important of Linda’s hits, during the 33rd Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards.
Please visit our website www.hispanicheritage.org to watch the full show, the honorees segments, and performers - bit.ly/34af5qY
The 33rd Hispanic Heritage Awards was presented by Target and premiered on October 6th on PBS stations. This year’s very special honorees on the broadcast were Linda Ronstadt (Legend Award) Bad Bunny (Vision Award), Selena Gomez (Arts Award), Jessica Alba (Business Award), America’s essential Farmworkers (Heroes Award), Sebastián Yatra (Inspira Award-also Hosting/Performing), and a special posthumous ally recognition of John Lewis.
Spotlighting some of contemporary Latin Music’s fastest rising next generation stars, Jessie Reyez, and Sech also performed their own recently released hit tracks. The broadcast was also highlighted by special themed performances that included New York’s critically praised all-women Mariachi group Flor de Toloache joining with Latino medical workers that were on the front-lines of emergency care during the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis, and the soulful Calma Carmona providing an emotional musical remembrance of civil rights icon John Lewis.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 1, 2021 7:07:13 GMT
 Music legend Linda Ronstadt honors her Mexican roots — and has a lot to say about our politics
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Nicole Acevedo
October 6, 2020·6 min read
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Linda Ronstadt
American singer
She is one of the country's most famous female vocalists, and she has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Linda Ronstadt — dubbed the "Queen of Rock" for her 1970s hits "You're No Good," "Blue Bayou" and "Hurt So Bad" — is also fiercely proud and outspoken about her Mexican heritage.
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"Most people in rock 'n' roll come from blues or from traditional Black church gospel, but I learned rancheras," said Ronstadt, referring to the popular Mexican folk music genre.
"I learned a lot of my singing from Lola Beltrán," she said, speaking about one of Mexico's most acclaimed ranchera singers.
Ronstadt spoke to NBC News ahead of an awards celebration that "feels more special because of my background." The Hispanic Heritage Foundation is honoring Ronstadt with its Legend Award and a special musical tribute during the 33rd annual Hispanic Heritage Awards, which will be broadcast Tuesday on PBS.
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Ronstadt retired in 2009 from her decadeslong singing career after she was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare and incurable brain disorder similar to Parkinson's disease. Since then, she has been receiving a bevy of honors, including the Kennedy Center Honors, lifetime achievement awards from the Recording Academy and the Latin Recording Academy and the National Medal of the Arts.
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In a wide-ranging conversation, Ronstadt discussed how her background influenced her music, her alarm over the current state of politics and the parallels she sees between current times and darker periods in history.
Rock songs — and canciones
Many saw Ronstadt as the quintessential American female pop singer — and they had a hard time reconciling the fact that she was Mexican American, Ronstadt said.
"I come from the Sonora desert, which exists on both sides of the border, and I've always felt very deeply affiliated with Mexican American culture," said Ronstadt, who was born in Tucson, Arizona. "Mexican music was a tremendous influence on my singing style.
"One of the first few interviews I did with rock publications like Rolling Stone, they just were sort of dismissive about it," she said.
Ronstadt remembers growing up in Tucson at a time when children would be punished for speaking Spanish publicly at school or on the playground. But that didn't discourage her from learning her father's Mexican canciones, or songs.
Her father, Gilbert, knew a lot of beautiful Mexican love songs rooted in his childhood, and he would serenade her mother, Ruth, while attending college in Arizona. The songs were passed down to Gilbert by Ronstadt's grandfather Federico, who was born in Sonora, Mexico, in 1868 to a German father and a Mexican mother. He had moved to Tucson to work as a wagon maker, eventually forming his own wagon and carriage company in the state.
Federico, who was also a guitarist and a vocalist, channeled his passion for music by founding what may have been Tucson's first professional orchestra, the Club Filarmónico Tucsonense, in 1896.
Throughout her career, Ronstadt sang everything from new wave and rock to country ballads and opera. But her ultimate passion project was the 1987 album "Canciones de mi Padre" ("Songs of my Father"), a Spanish-language traditional Mexican music album paying tribute to the songs she learned from her dad.
Ronstadt made the album despite her music label's disapproval. It sold over 2.5 million units and became the biggest-selling foreign-language album in the U.S. at the time, effectively helping pave the way for artists like Selena Quintanilla and Gloria Estefan in the 1980s, as well as others, like Ricky Martin, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez, who became the central figures of the Latin music explosion during the 1990s and the 2000s.
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IMAGE: Linda Ronstadt on 'The Tonight Show' (Steffin Butler / NBC)
The canciones from that album were the last ones she sang at her last live concert in November 2009 before she officially retired.
Over the past 30 years, Ronstadt has been working with a cultural center in Richmond, California, called Los Cenzotles — meaning "the mockingbirds" in Nahuatl, an indigenous language from Mexico — to help Mexican American children connect with their heritage through music, dance and other forms of art. Ronstadt and Los Cenzotles will be featured in a documentary coming out this month documenting their trip to Mexico to reconnect with their roots.
www.lindaandthemockingbirds.com/
"They learn the true, deep traditions of Mexican music. And then if they want to, if they want to become professional musicians later on and they want to break the rules, they know how to break them," Ronstadt said.
Pandemics and politics
Ronstadt, like many Americans, is spending more time reading at home as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic.
Amid a national racial reckoning triggered by nationwide protests over George Floyd's death and presidential election, Ronstadt has been "reading everything I can about the current situation," as well as revisiting the history of Black people in the U.S. She has also been reading about the Weimar Republic — the German government before Hitler's Nazi regime.
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The exercise, she said, has allowed her to see many parallels between the past and the present.
"I think that anybody that has read Black history couldn't argue with the idea that reparations are in order," said Ronstadt, a longtime political activist. "I think that anybody who learns about the Weimar Republic can't disagree that the years before the Nazi takeover were alarming like ours right now, when you have people convinced that they were being screwed and they were being mistreated and that somebody was to blame. Back then, they blamed it on the Jews. Now, they're blaming Mexicans, and it's just so obvious."
IMAGE: Linda Ronstadt in 2013 (Amy Sussman / Invision/AP)
Ronstadt said that "once a democracy fails, it almost never reinstates itself."
"It almost always goes into a totalitarian government, and there's nothing you can do about it," she said.
She said, "It's time for Latinos to stop being invisible and to stop being dismissed as unnecessary, deficient or less than."
Ronstadt, who grew up near the southern border, said recent changes in immigration policies have endangered the lives of many people trying to seek asylum in the U.S. That motivated her to get involved with the charity One Story at a Time. It works to help migrants who have been affected by the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policies, which require those seeking asylum in the U.S. to wait in Mexico while their cases go through U.S. courts — a process that could take years.
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"When you see injustices, when you see somebody being harassed on the street or children locked up in cages and separated from their families, thousands of children getting lost in the system," Ronstadt said, "when you see terrible irregularities — you have to say you won't stand for it."
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