Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

[Jersey Girl]

Here's the trailer for what I posted previously.

Linda and the Mockingbirds | Official Trailer (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i89XDw91GRk

[Jersey Girl]

I finally took the time to watch The Sound of My Voice from beginning to end, and I am more in love with Linda Ronstadt than I ever was before. The ending was bittersweet, but even at the end of the movie, she sounded pretty good, even though a far cry from when she was at her peak. Sissel Kjrkjebø is still my favorite singer, though. I can't help wondering if Sissel and Linda knew about each other, or if they ever met each other. I can't imagine that Linda would be unknown to Sissel, and I would be very surprised if Linda were not familiar with Sissel's accomplishments. I would bet that they were great admirers of each other, even if they never actually met each other in person.

I've searched online for an association between the two but cannot find anything. I would be surprised if they weren't aware of each other.

[Jersey Girl]

I don't know if I've ever posted this. The whole thing, and especially watch her listening to other people sing her songs, made me tear up. Watch her face as Emmy Lou is speaking. And Aaron Neville...omg, her face. It must have been like watching you life pass before your eyes...and your ears.

Kennedy Center Honors: Linda Ronstadt Tribute 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Xv8esEoeU

I can't imagine what it must be like to have an instrument like that and then have it fail you. I just cannot.

[Gunnar]

I finally took the time to watch The Sound of My Voice from beginning to end, and I am more in love with Linda Ronstadt than I ever was before. The ending was bittersweet, but even at the end of the movie, she sounded pretty good, even though a far cry from when she was at her peak. Sissel Kjrkjebø is still my favorite singer, though. I can't help wondering if Sissel and Linda knew about each other, or if they ever met each other. I can't imagine that Linda would be unknown to Sissel, and I would be very surprised if Linda were not familiar with Sissel's accomplishments. I would bet that they were great admirers of each other, even if they never actually met each other in person.

I've searched online for an association between the two but cannot find anything. I would be surprised if they weren't aware of each other.

I couldn't find any evidence of any association between the two either. It is for sure, though, that Sissel is familiar with Linda Ronstadt's work. How could any conscious, literate human being anywhere in the modern world not living under a rock not have heard of Linda Ronstadt, especially anyone in the music and entertainment world? It is almost as unlikely that Linda Ronstadt or anyone else prominent in the world music scene would not have heard of Sissel. I can't imagine that if they knew of each other at all that they would not be great admirers of each other.

[Gunnar]

I don't know if I've ever posted this. The whole thing, and especially watch her listening to other people sing her songs, made me tear up. Watch her face as Emmy Lou is speaking. And Aaron Neville...omg, her face. It must have been like watching you life pass before your eyes...and your ears.

Kennedy Center Honors: Linda Ronstadt Tribute 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Xv8esEoeU

I can't imagine what it must be like to have an instrument like that and then have it fail you. I just cannot.

I know what you mean! My eyes moistened a bit too. One of the people I know for sure understands how Linda Ronstadt feels is Julie Andrews.

Julie Andrews, the 84-year-old soprano and musical theatre legend, has opened up about the 1997 operation that caused her to lose her singing voice, saying: ‘I went into a depression’.

“When I woke up from an operation to remove a cyst on my vocal cord, my singing voice was gone,” she told AARP The Magazine for their October/November 2019 issue.

“I went into a depression. It felt like I’d lost my identity.”