July is a very busy month in music history:
- The iconic Debbie Harry celebrated her 79th birthday on July 1
- The B-52s Fred Schneider celebrated his 73rd birthday on July 1
- Missy Elliott, one of the most forward thinking artists of her generation — and perhaps of any generation, really — celebrated her 53rd birthday on July 1
- Evelyn “Champagne” King celebrated her 64th birthday on July 1
- Depeche Mode‘s Yaz’s/Yazoo’s and Erasure‘s Vince Clarke celebrated his 63rd birthday on July 3
- The great jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith was born 82 years ago on July 3
- Bill Withers was born 86 years ago on July 4
- Huey Lewis and The News‘ frontman Huey Lewis celebrated his 74th birthday on July 5
- 50 Cent celebrated his 49th birthday on July 6
- The Beatles‘ Ringo Starr celebrated his 84th birthday on July 7
- Depeche Mode co-founder
- Andy “Fletch” Fletcher was born 63 years ago on July 8
- Beck celebrated his 54th birthday on July 8
- AC/DC‘s first frontman, Bon Scott was born 78 years ago on July 9
- The legendary and incomparable Mavis Staples celebrated her 85th birthday on July 10
- Pet Shop Boys‘ frontman Neil Tennant celebrated his 70th — yes, 70th! — birthday on July 10
- Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy celebrates his 67th birthday today
- Lil’ Kim celebrated her 50th — yes, 50th! — birthday on July 11
- MF DOOM was born 53 years ago on July 13
- Joy Division‘s Ian Curtis was born on this day 68 years ago
Linda Ronstadt, one of the greatest vocalists — and arguably one of the most commercially successful female artists — celebrates her 77th birthday today.
Ronstadt has won the following:
- 11 Grammy Awards
- 3 American Music Awards
- 2 Academy of Country Music Awards
- 1 Emmy Award
- 1 ALMA Award
Ronstadt has also received the following nominations:
Ronstadt has also been awarded a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 — and that same year, she was awarded with a National Medal of Arts and Humanities. She received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016. In
In 2019, she received a joint star with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work together as the female supergroup Trio. And that year she was named a Kennedy Center Honoree.
Throughout her lengthy career, Ronstadt released 24 studio albums and 15 compilations that featured 38 Billboard Hot 100 singles, 21 of them, which reached the Top 40, 10 of them reaching the Top 10 and one, “You’re No Good” reaching #1.
36 of her albums have charted with 10 Top 10 albums and 3 #1 albums on the Billboard charts.
Along with that she’s collaborated with an impressive and eclectic array of artists including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Carla Bley, Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash and more.
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