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Called "Hummin' to Myself," it was a collection of standard songs recorded with a small jazz ensemble, Ronstadt writes in her memoir.

In a interview with AARP magazine , Ronstadt said she suspected Parkinson's disease had already begun to alter her voice for at least seven or eight years prior to her diagnosis. Ronstadt performed her last concert in Two years later, the same year she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Recording Academy pictured , Ronstadt formally announced her retirement.

In , Ronstadt revealed that she could no longer sing because of Parkinson's disease. And I was made most aware of it by having it banished.

I can still sing in my mind, but I can't do it physically. Former President Barack Obama likely spoke for many when he admitted to Ronstadt during the National Medal of Arts ceremony that he had a crush on her "back in the day.

While she sometimes still appears in the spotlight -- as she did earlier this year, when she and Emmylou Harris left presented Dolly Parton with the MusiCares Person of the Year award -- she mostly sticks close to home, she told the Times. It's going to get worse every day," Ronstadt said of her diagnosis. Sometimes I fall down. But that's the new normal. I just have to accept it.

I had a long turn at the trough. The biggest challenge that comes with the brain disorder is losing autonomy as motor control diminishes, she explained. Brushing your teeth, taking a shower," Ronstadt told Cooper.

Individuals with this movement disorder have difficulty maintaining balance and controlling speech, eye movement and mood, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

They also often experience frequent falls due to the progressive loss of mobility. I'm like a toddler," Ronstadt said. I've had to relearn how to eat. He said when he retires he wants to study trees and California Indians. The press always made such a big deal about the fact that you never got married. But I never needed to get married. I had my own life. I had a crush on Kermit, so it was a problem because of Miss Piggy. He was her property. But we had a really good time on that show.

I loved watching them. They let me help them with the story and the songs. This crush that I had on Kermit, they developed into a little storyline where Miss Piggy and I have a confrontation. I was just ambushed by that song. They sang a really good song. You should hear it.

The manager I had at the time said it was too corny. Somebody said it would never be a hit. I sang it all the way through my career. Were you surprised by the songs from that album that became hits? I was surprised anything of mine was successful, because it always seemed so hodge-podge. We needed to have an uptempo song to close the show with, and that was a song I knew from the radio.

Not having the ability to observe other people, because people are observing you. I had to keep my head down all the time. It was kind of excruciating. I still feel that way. Also, relationships were hard, because I was always on the bus. In the media, women are built up with sex as a weapon and men are threatened by it as much as they are drawn to it, and they retaliate as hard as they can.

I have to say that when I look at my whole career, over all, what counted the most was whether you showed up and played the music. I saw it happen with Emmylou, and I saw it happen with Joni Mitchell. Joni Mitchell was threatening to everybody. She could play better. She could sing better.

She looked better. She could just do it all. Did you find that there were things that were harder for you as a woman than for your male contemporaries? Well, I had to do makeup and hair.

Guys just shower and put on any old clothes. And then there were high heels. I have extra ankle bones in each foot, and high heels were agonizing.

I used to wear them onstage, kick them off, hide my feet behind the monitors, and find my shoes again before I had to leave the stage. At the height of your rock-and-roll fame, you decided to do Gilbert and Sullivan. What drew you to that? My mother had a book of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas on piano, and somehow I learned the songs. I heard my sister practicing them. Part of me was very tired of it. I liked the idea of a proscenium stage. I think a proscenium has a lot to do with focussing your attention.

A theatre is a machine built to focus your attention and allow you to dream. Throughout the eighties, you experimented wildly with genre, everything from Puccini to the Great American Songbook to Mexican canciones. And I realized, all of a sudden, people might not show up.

They really might hate it. I was ordering matzo-ball soup from the Carnegie Deli next door, and it gave me the shakes so bad that I could barely stand when I got onstage. I was holding hands with Nelson Riddle in the wings—he was nervous, too. He wrote beautiful charts for me. I was really lucky to have him. I went back to my apartment that night and just smiled, because we had gotten away with an evening of American standard songs.

When I see something now like Lady Gaga recording a standards album with Tony Bennett, it seems like she owes you a debt. Well, she owes me nothing. And I like drama and nuance. This music has richer poetic images and more interesting rhythms. I like to say that Mexicans took German and French music and made it sexy.

Rodriguez first met Ronstadt in the early s, when she came across his students performing. She was deeply impressed by their authentic rendering of traditional music from a land some of them had never seen.

Their work moved her so much, she started bringing her famous friends to see them, including Browne who wound up writing a song with Rodriguez about the plight of Mexican immigrants titled The Dreamer , Bonnie Raitt and the Chieftains, who took Los Cenzontles on tour with them.

The group has also worked with David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, recorded scores of their own albums and produced their own documentaries. Collectively, their work captures the unique experience of Mexicans in America.

In one of the most wrenching scenes in the film, Rodriguez expresses his anger over the treatment of Chicanos in the US, a feeling Ronstadt shares. The book would become a New York Times Bestseller. Although her health left her unable to attend the ceremony, she did make it to the White House in July, where she received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. That year, longtime fans also enjoyed the release of Duets , an album featuring some of her most popular collaborations.

In December , Ronstadt was among the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, where Carrie Underwood and Trisha Yearwood paid tribute by performing some of the honoree's greatest hits. Following Adieu False Heart , Ronstadt focused more energy on her personal life and her family, including her adopted children, Mary Clementine and Carlos. For many years, she lived in her hometown of Tucson with her kids. She now lives in San Francisco. She told The New York Times that "I'm very bad at compromise, and there's a lot of compromise in marriage.

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