Linda Ronstadt didn't want a documentary made about her life, and she wouldn't talk about the past for 'Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.' But she gave the go-ahead to filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. In her plain-spoken manner, she relives her decision.
Linda Ronstadt did not want a movie to be made about her life. She expressed that very clearly to any filmmaker who approached her, seeking permission to spotlight her music career.
Over lunch, she acquiesced. But there were stipulations. She did not want to participate in a sit-down interview. And she did not want the film to focus on her progressive supranuclear palsy, a variant of Parkinson’s disease that has robbed her of her singing voice since its diagnosis in 2013. Ronstadt is mostly housebound, spending her days inside the Sea Cliff home she bought 10 years ago. Her 27-year-old son, Carlos, works at Apple and lives on the third floor.
“Even if I had the space, I wouldn’t give it to the Grammys. I’d hang a nice painting,” she says. “I’m happy that I got them. But it’s just a thing.”Friedman, one of the film’s directors, admits he was initially taken aback by Ronstadt’s aversion to attention. She says modeled her style off of the waitresses at the Sunset Strip club the Troubadour, particularly that iconic Betsey Johnson minidress that she wore to all her big performances. She kept the purple striped dress in her purse, washing it in the sink at night until it became so short that she gave it away to Goodwill.
Emmylou Harris, left, Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Neil Portnow, chief executive of the Recording Academy, at an event this year.
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