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Linda Ronstadt: Parkinson's Took My Singing Voice
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 8/23/2013 | Sophie Schillaci

Posted on 08/23/2013 6:55:29 PM PDT by mr fish

The 67-year-old, 11-time Grammy Award winner details her struggle with the disease in an interview with the AARP.

Grammy Award-winning artist Linda Ronstadt has revealed that a recent Parkinson's diagnosis has rendered her unable to sing.

In an interview with the AARP, the 67-year-old says that she was officially diagnosed with the degenerative disorder eight months ago after displaying symptoms as far back as eight years ago.

"I couldn't sing," she told AARP music reporter Alanna Nash, "and I couldn't figure out why. I knew it was mechanical. I knew it had to do with the muscles, but I thought it might have also had something to do with the tick disease that I had. And it didn't occur to me to go to a neurologist."

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Ronstadt says that she had undergone a shoulder operation, and she believed that to be the culprit for her trembling hands.

"Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose, so when I finally went to a neurologist and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked," she said. "I wouldn't have suspected that in a million, billion years."

Now, Ronstadt says she "can't sing a note." Throughout her career, which began when she was just 14 years old singing with her siblings, Ronstadt accumulated eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, a Tony Award and a Golden Globe nom for her role in The Pirates of Penzance. She released her first studio album in 1969 (Hand Sown… Home Grown) and her most recent in 2006 (Adieu False Heart).

Ronstadt recently penned a memoir, Simple Dreams, out Sept. 17, though the book does not address her diagnosis or the loss of her voice.

"No one can sing with Parkinson's disease," she tells AARP. "No matter how hard you try."

The publication's full interview with Ronstadt is slated to run on AARP.org next week.


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I hope I posted this right! She really had a great voice!
1 posted on 08/23/2013 6:55:29 PM PDT by mr fish
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Parkinson's Took My Singing Voice

Liberalism took your soul.

2 posted on 08/23/2013 6:59:22 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: mr fish

It didnt occur to her to go to a neurologist???
Hmmm...


3 posted on 08/23/2013 7:00:01 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: mr fish

I well remember Different Drum and the airplay it got on the AM stations at the time. Nice catchy pop tune.

But the Stone Poneys opening for Paul Butterfield, or the Doors? The 60s were a strange time.


4 posted on 08/23/2013 7:01:04 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: mr fish

A vicious, virulent, America-hater - - but I do wish her well.


5 posted on 08/23/2013 7:01:22 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: mr fish
Yes, she did. I was never much of a concert goer, but a pair of tickets to a Linda Ronstadt show fell into my lap ... oh ... 40 years ago. How time flies. She sang beautifully, but what I remember is that she stood onstage almost stock-still, like a little girl afraid of the audience. Odd affect, but it worked in concert.

The best artist in concert I ever saw was Neil Diamond, also 40ish years ago. Leave aside whether you are a Neil Diamond fan or not ... he had total rapport with the audience, and was the most responsive rocker I ever saw. A class act.

6 posted on 08/23/2013 7:03:43 PM PDT by sphinx
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Hippie Nookie - She had a great voice.


7 posted on 08/23/2013 7:04:20 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Kill Obamacare not wound it.)
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To: mr fish

Yup.

Liberal or not, pretty hot!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-OstcRDPZ0


8 posted on 08/23/2013 7:04:52 PM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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To: doc1019

she’s one of the biggest brain-dead GOP and Bush haters around. During the Iraq war, this twat bitched about conservatives and the Iraq war like we were the plague. F*** her.


9 posted on 08/23/2013 7:05:21 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Mike Darancette

10 posted on 08/23/2013 7:05:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: max americana

Karma.


11 posted on 08/23/2013 7:05:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mr fish

if she wasn’t a freaking uber liberal i might care.


12 posted on 08/23/2013 7:06:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dfwgator

Amen and amen


13 posted on 08/23/2013 7:06:34 PM PDT by doc1019
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I wonty miss LR singing at fundraisers for Guv. Moonbeam.


14 posted on 08/23/2013 7:07:09 PM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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To: mr fish
Is Parkinson's a new euphemism for syphilis?
15 posted on 08/23/2013 7:07:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I heard the song earlier this week. “I ain’t sayin’ you ain’t pretty...It’s just that I am not in the market for a boy who wants to love only me...” Far out and groovy.


16 posted on 08/23/2013 7:08:52 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: mr fish

She was cute back in the day, but I never cared for her music or her politics.


17 posted on 08/23/2013 7:09:02 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: dfwgator

So warped she turned Jerry Brown into a lefty.


18 posted on 08/23/2013 7:10:06 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It wasn't the Rodeo Clown's act, it was the crowd reaction they could't take.)
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To: mr fish

Sorry to hear that news about Ms. Ronstadt’s voice. My Dad died of Parkinsons...he was a big, strong man, always full of life and verve. The disease robbed Dad of all of his muscles to the point he couldn’t sit up, roll over, swallow or talk. But he would always manage a crooked smile and his eyes would gleam. Never once did he complain about his fate, either. He taught me a lot about being a man.

It is a horrible disease and I’m fearful of it.


19 posted on 08/23/2013 7:12:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: max americana

Sheesh, max. You sound just like a hateful, mean liberal. We are better than that. Where’s your compassion and forgiveness?


20 posted on 08/23/2013 7:14:38 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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