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Ptah

(33,501 posts)
Sat Mar 19, 2022, 11:07 AM Mar 2022

Tucson to name music hall for native daughter Linda Ronstadt

TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Tucson Music Hall will be renamed in honor of Linda Ronstadt, a southern Arizona native who went on to become a Grammy-winning superstar, Mayor Regina Romero announced Friday.

One of the top performers of the 1970s and a popular singer well into the 21st century, Ronstadt collected nearly a dozen Grammys in such categories as country, pop, Latin and children’s music. She stopped singing in 2009 when Parkinson's disease robbed her of her singing voice.

“Linda Ronstadt is a beloved daughter of Tucson. It is time to honor her legacy and her ability to tell the story of our culture through music,” Romero said in a statement.

Ronstadt arrived on the music scene in 1967 as the lead singer of the Stone Poneys, a country-folk trio that featured two of her friends from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She later found success as a solo artist in eclectic genres ranging from rock to Mexican ranchera.



https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/tucson-music-hall-native-daughter-linda-ronstadt-83539630


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Tucson to name music hall for native daughter Linda Ronstadt (Original Post) Ptah Mar 2022 OP
good move.... bahboo Mar 2022 #1
Good! ChazInAz Mar 2022 #2

ChazInAz

(2,788 posts)
2. Good!
Sat Mar 19, 2022, 07:20 PM
Mar 2022

The Music Hall is one of the finest venues in town. Performers there a few times, myself and loved the acoustics.
She deserves it!

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