At age 14, Ronstadt formed a folk trio with her brother Peter and sister Gretchen. The group played coffeehouses, fraternity houses, and other small venues, billing themselves as “the Union City Ramblers” and “the Three Ronstadts”, and they even recorded themselves at a Tucson studio under the name “the New Union Ramblers”.
Linda Maria Ronstadt was born on July 15, 1946, she is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin.
Linda Ronstadt parents: Meet Gilbert Ronstadt, Ruth Mary Copeman Ronstadt
Linda Maria Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona, on July 15, 1946, to Gilbert Ronstadt (1911–1995), a prosperous machinery merchant who ran the F. Ronstadt Co., and Ruth Mary (née Copeman) Ronstadt (1914–1982), a homemaker.
Ronstadt was raised on the family’s 10-acre (4 ha) ranch with her siblings Peter (who served as Tucson’s Chief of Police for ten years, 1981–1991), Michael, and Gretchen. The family was featured in Family Circle magazine in 1953
Ronstadt’s father came from a pioneering Arizona ranching family and was of Mexican descent with a German male ancestor. The family’s influence on and contributions to Arizona’s history, including wagon making, commerce, pharmacies, and music, are documented in the library of the University of Arizona.
- Ronstadt’s mother Ruth Mary, of German, English, and Dutch ancestry, was raised in Flint, Michigan.
