ICYMI: For years, Linda Ronstadt railed against the razing of the barrio to make way for the Tucson Convention Center. Now her name is part of it.
Linda Ronstadt looked a little nervous sitting on the stage of the newly christened Linda Ronstadt Music Hall on May 7.“Sitting through the ceremony was a bit difficult,” she admitted in a phone interview a couple of days later. “Sometimes Parkinson’s takes your voice away, and when it happens I start to stutter. I wasn’t prepared to speak.”
“I have been very vocal about complaining about the Convention Center,” she said. “It’s a community center replacing a community that was viable.” Ronstadt said the funny thing about having her name on the Music Hall is that her Mexican-American heritage will be lost on people who have no idea about her beyond her historic music career that crossed genres — country, pop, rock and Mexican — and generations — her career spanned four decades, from the late 1960s through early 2000s.
She also made a journey in spring 2019 to Banámichi, Sonora, the small town along the Río Sonora several hours south of the U.S.-Mexico border not far from where her grandfather, Federico José María Ronstadt, was born. He immigrated to Tucson in the early 1880s. A musical legacyAt the May 7 renaming ceremony, which took place during the 40th annual Tucson International Mariachi Conference, the 75-year-old said she accepted the honor on behalf of the entire Ronstadt family, past and present.
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