Legendary singer Linda Ronstadt revealed the shocking news of her battle with Parkinson's disease due to which she can't sing anymore.
The news comes as a shock to many music lovers and admirers of the legendary Linda Ronstadt. The 67-year-old singer told AARP Magazine in an interview that she is suffering from Parkinson's disease and will no longer be able to sing.
The 11-time Grammy award winner was diagnosed with the degenerative disorder, which attacks the central nervous system, eight months ago but may have experienced the symptoms as early as eight years ago. She attributed her inability to sing to a tick bite
"I couldn't sing and I couldn't figure out why," the artist said in the interview with AARP Mag, which will be published next week. "I knew it was mechanical. I knew it had to do with the muscles, but I thought it might have also had something to do with the tick disease that I had. And it didn't occur to me to go to a neurologist. I think I've had it for seven or eight years already, because of the symptoms that I've had. Then I had a shoulder operation, so I thought that's why my hands were trembling."
Eight months ago, when a neurologist broke the news to Ronstadt about her Parkinson's disease, she was shocked. But she could relate as she had experienced symptoms of the disease in mid-2000.
"No one can sing with Parkinson's disease," Ronstadt said. "No matter how hard you try."
Ronstadt is famous for her incredible adaptive voice and her pop hits like "You're No Good" and "When Will I Be Loved." She started as a lead singer of Stone Poneys, before she went solo. In addition to eleven Grammy awards, the "Blue Bayou" singer grabbed two Country Music Awards, an Emmy in 1989 and also a Latin Grammy Award in 2011.
The singer's autobiography "Simple dreams" is due to be published next month, but has no mention of her battle with Parkinson's or inability to sing.
