WINTER
LIGHT
LINDA
RONSTADT
SONGWRITERS: ERIC
KAZ; LINDA RONSTADT & ZBIGNIEW PREISNER
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: LINDA
RONSTADT
LABEL: ELEKTRA RECOPRDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1993
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. She has earned 10 Grammy Awards, three American
Music Awards, two Academy of
Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Many of
her albums have been certified
gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United
States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award.
She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin
Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded
the Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award by the Recording
Academy in 2016. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she
was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. In 2019, she received a
star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio. Ronstadt
was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy
Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.
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 however did not translate across the
Atlantic to the UK. Although Ronstadt's duets, "Somewhere Out There"
with James Ingram and
"Don't Know Much"
with Aaron Neville, peaked
at numbers 8 and 2 respectively in 1987 and 1989, the single "Blue Bayou"
was her only solo single to reach the UK Top 40. She has charted 36 albums, ten
top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop
Album Chart.
Ronstadt has collaborated with artists in
diverse genres, including Bette Midler,
Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Carla Bley (Escalator
Over the Hill), Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Earl Scruggs,
Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle. She has
lent her voice to over 120 albums and has sold more than 100 million records,
making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.
Christopher Loudon, of Jazz Times, wrote
in 2004 that Ronstadt is "blessed with arguably the most sterling set of
pipes of her generation."
Ronstadt reduced her activity after 2000 when
she felt her singing voice deteriorating, releasing her last full-length album
in 2004 and performing her last live concert in 2009. She announced her
retirement in 2011 and revealed shortly afterwards that she is no longer able
to sing as a result of a degenerative condition later determined to be progressive
supranuclear palsy. Since then, Ronstadt has
continued to make public appearances, 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.
Winter Light is an album by American
singer Linda Ronstadt,
released in late 1993 to critical acclaim and commercial disappointment.
Winter Light was Ronstadt's first solo album
since Don't Cry Now not to
be produced by Peter Asher; she
elected to produce it herself, along with George Massenburg. The
album marked Ronstadt's increased responsibilities and confidence behind the
boards, this time achieving a multi-layered Enya-styled
New Age-oriented sound, as in Anna McGarrigle's
"Heartbeats
Accelerating" — the album's first hit
single —and Brian Wilson's
"Don't Talk (Put Your Head on my Shoulder)". "Heartbeats
Accelerating" featured a popular music video while another track, a remake
of the classic 1960s R&B hit, "Oh No Not My
Baby", was a Top 30 Adult Contemporary hit for Linda in the
spring of 1994.
Hearts call
Hearts fall
Swallowed in the rain
Who knows
Life grows
Hollow and so vain
Wandering in the
winter light
The wicked and the sane
Bear witness to salvation
And life starts over again
Now the clear sky is
all around you
Aah aah
Love's shadow will surround you
All through the night
Star glowing in the
twilight
Tell me true
Hope whispers and I will follow
Till you love me too
Ah ah ah
Now the clear sky is
all around you
Aah aah
Love's shadow will surround you
All through the night
Star glowing in the
twilight
Tell me true
Hope whispers and I will follow
Till you love me too
Ah! Ah, ah!
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