Linda Ronstadt Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: Tucson, Arizona
Father: Gilbert Ronstadt, hardware store owner
Mother: Ruth Mary (Copeman) Ronstadt, homemaker
Children: adopted: Carlos and Mary Clementine
Education: Attended University of Arizona, 1964
Other Facts
First female artist to have four consecutive albums go platinum.
Nominated for one Tony Award and one Emmy Award. She won the Emmy Award.
Explored many styles of music including folk, rock, country, opera, jazz and mariachi.
Played the character Mabel in the Broadway, television and film versions of “Pirates of Penzance.”
Her grandfather, Lloyd Groff Copeman, was an American inventor with hundreds of patents, including the first electric stove.