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Linda Ronstadt

Despite strong roots in country music, Linda Ronstadt has operated in many different musical genres and has a host of awards to prove it. Of Mexican heritage Ronstadt grew up in Tucson, Arizona, but embarked on her music career after gravitating to California in the mid-1960s. She became lead singer in the folk-rock group Stone Poneys (who also featured Bob Kimmel and Kenny Edwards and had a hit with Different Drum), releasing her first solo album Hand Sown... Home Grown in 1969 - an influential fusion of rock and country that subsequently became known as the first alternative co...