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...