It wasn't Linda Ronstadt, although the Tucson, Arizona singer was a superstar until her retirement in 2011—11 Grammy Awards, 3 American Music awards, over 30 studio albums, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. No, Linda followed in the footsteps of her famous aunt, who was an international star decades before Linda was born in 1946. Luisa Ronstadt Espinel, born in 1892, became an ambassador of culture as she performed throughout the United States and Europe in the early 1900s, bringin


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