Editing Linda Ronstadt (section)

=== Early influences ===
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Ronstadt's early family life was filled with music and tradition, which influenced the stylistic and musical choices she later made in her career. Growing up, she listened to many types of music, including [[Music of Mexico|Mexican music]], which was sung by her entire family and was a staple in her childhood.<ref name="AARP-07">{{Cite web |last=Leach |first=Anita Mabante |date=August 2007 |title=Linda Ronstadt: The music legend opens up to AARP Segunda Juventud Online |url=http://www.aarpsegundajuventud.org/english/entertainment/2007-AS/07AS_ronstadt.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222084100/http://www.aarpsegundajuventud.org/english/entertainment/2007-AS/07AS_ronstadt.html |archive-date=December 22, 2008 |access-date=November 25, 2012}}</ref>

Ronstadt has remarked that all the styles she has recorded on her own records{{snds}}rock and roll, rhythm and blues, gospel, opera, country, choral, and mariachi{{snds}}are music she heard her family sing in their living room or heard played on the radio by the age of 10. She credits her mother for her appreciation of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] and her father for introducing her to the [[traditional pop]] and [[Great American Songbook]] repertoire that she would, in turn, help reintroduce to an entire generation.<ref name="Asheralbumsales">{{Cite web |last=Kruger |first=Debbie |date=June 17, 1998 |title=Linda Ronstadt Interview 17 June 1998 at Linda's home in Tucson, Arizona |url=http://www.debbiekruger.com/writer/freelance/ronstadt_transcript.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928113552/http://www.debbiekruger.com/writer/freelance/ronstadt_transcript.html |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |access-date=July 6, 2007 |publisher=debbiekruger.com}}</ref><ref name=starbulletin />

{{quote box|quote=If I didn't hear it on the radio, or if my dad wasn't playing it on the piano, or if my brother wasn't playing it on the guitar or singing it in his boys' choir, or my mother and sister weren't practicing a Broadway tune or a Gilbert and Sullivan song, then I can't do it today. It's as simple as that. All of my influences and my authenticity are a direct result of the music played in that Tucson living room.<ref name="McGrath03">{{Cite news |last=McGrath |first=T.J. |title=Linda Ronstadt: Silver Threads & Golden Needles |publisher=Dirty Linen |issue=#106 – June/July 2003 |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/dirty2003.html |url-status=live |access-date=November 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305072054/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/dirty2003.html |archive-date=March 5, 2016}}</ref>|source =—Linda Ronstadt|align = left|width = 200px}}

Early on, her singing style had been influenced by singers such as [[Lola Beltrán]] and [[Édith Piaf]]; she has called their singing and rhythms "more like [[Music of Greece|Greek music]] ... It's sort of like 6/8 [[time signature]] ... very hard driving and very intense."<ref name="influences">{{Cite web |date=February 1971 |title=Sanity on the Line Every Show |url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/arthitp1.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331054553/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/arthitp1.htm |archive-date=March 31, 2016 |access-date=May 7, 2007 |website=Hit Parader}}</ref> She also drew influence from country singer [[Hank Williams]].

She has said that "all girl singers" eventually "have to curtsy to [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Billie Holiday]]".<ref name="tiptheirhat" /> Of [[Maria Callas]], Ronstadt says, "There's no one in her league. That's it. Period. I learn more ... about singing rock n roll from listening to Maria Callas records than I ever would from listening to pop music for a month of Sundays.&nbsp;... She's the greatest chick singer ever."<ref name="NYTGarden">{{cite news |last=[[Stephen Holden|Holden, Stephen]] |date=April 19, 1995 |title=At Lunch With: Linda Ronstadt; And This Is What 48 Looks Like |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/19/garden/at-lunch-with-linda-ronstadt-and-this-is-what-48-looks-like.html?scp=1&sq=%22And+This+Is+What+48+Looks+Like%22&st=nyt |url-status=live |access-date=September 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518104422/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/19/garden/at-lunch-with-linda-ronstadt-and-this-is-what-48-looks-like.html?scp=1&sq=%22And+This+Is+What+48+Looks+Like%22&st=nyt |archive-date=May 18, 2013}}</ref> She admires Callas for her musicianship and her attempts to push 20th-century singing, particularly opera, back into the [[bel canto]] "natural style of singing".<ref name="kqed">{{cite web |date=July 19, 2006 |title=Linda Ronstadt: Forum with Michael Krasny |url=http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R607191000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929082927/http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R607191000/ |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |access-date=July 6, 2007 |publisher=[[KQED-FM]] radio |format=MP3, transcript}}</ref>

A self-described product of American radio of the 1950s and 1960s, Ronstadt is a fan of its eclectic and diverse music programming.<ref name="starbulletin">{{cite news |last=Burlingame |first=Burl |title=Silver threads golden moments: After 35 years, Linda Ronstadt returns to sing in Diamond Head Crater |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/03/28/features/story01.html |url-status=live |access-date=April 9, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808101920/http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/03/28/features/story01.html |archive-date=August 8, 2010}}</ref>