Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, and Latin.
Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. She charted 38 US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40, ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one ("You're No Good"). Her success did not translate to the UK, with only the single "Blue Bayou" reaching the UK Top 40. Ronstadt's duet with Aaron Neville, "Don't Know Much", peaked at number 2 in December 1989， She has charted 36 albums, ten top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop Album Chart.

Ronstadt reduced her activity after 2000 when she felt her singing voice deteriorating,[24] releasing her last full-length album in 2004 and performing her last live concert in 2009. , going on a number of public speaking tours in the 2010s. She published an autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir， in September 2013. A documentary based on her memoirs, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, was released in 2019.