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Donated by Linda Ronstadt, this furniture was in her home here in Tucson. This item is used, and is sold in "As Is" condition.

Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music singer. Her many vocal styles, in a variety of genres, have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career. As a result, she has earned multiple Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden Globe nominations. Im 2014, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In total, she has released over 30 solo albums, more than 15 compilations or greatest hits albums. Ronstadt has charted thirty-eight Billboard Hot 100 singles, twenty-one of which have reached the Top 40, and ten of which have reached the Top 10.

Establishing her professional career in the mid-1960s at the forefront of California's emerging folk rock and country rock movements, Linda Ronstadt joined forces with Bob Kimmel and Kenny Edwards and became the lead singer of a successful folk rock trio, The Stone Poneys. Later as a solo artist, she released Hand Sown ... Home Grown in 1969, considered the first alternative country record by a female recording artist.

With the successful release of chart-topping albums such as Heart Like A Wheel, Simple Dreams, and Living In The USA, coupled with the fact that Ronstadt became the first female "arena class" rock star, setting records as one of the top-grossing concert artists of the decade, Ronstadt became a star of the highest magnitude and the most successful female artist of her era. Recognized as the "First Lady of Rock" and the "Queen of Rock", Ronstadt was voted the Top Female Pop Singer of the 1970s.

In the early 1980s Ronstadt went to Broadway, garnered a Tony nomination, collaborated with famed conductor Nelson Riddle, an event at that time viewed as an original and unorthodox move for a rock and roll artist. This venture paid off, and Ronstadt remained one of the best-selling vocalists throughout the 1980s.

Linda Ronstadt was the most successful female rock singer of the '70s and one of the most successful female recording artists in U.S. history. A consummate American artist, Ronstadt opened many doors for women in music by championing songwriters and musicians, and being at the vanguard of many musical movements. With the title of "highest paid woman in rock", she more recently emerged as music matriarch, international arts advocate, and human rights advocate.

For almost 15 years, Ronstadt has been a champion of the work of the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network (TIHAN) and its message of a compassionate response to HIV/AIDS. Ronstadt was a longtime friend of TIHAN leader Dr. Myron Morris, and she sang Goodbye My Friend at his memorial service at Temple Emanu-El in Tucson. In addition to appearing in a promotional video for TIHAN, she has been a donor, supporter, and advocate for TIHAN and AIDS awareness and support.