CANCIONES DE MI PADRE
Canciones De Mi Padre (Spanish for “Songs of My Father”, or “My Father’s Songs”) is American singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt’s first album of Mexican traditional Mariachi music. (More from Wikipedia)
Linda Ronstadt’s first songwriting credit was on “Lo Siento Mi Vida” (“I’m Sorry, My Love”), which she co-wrote with her father Gilbert Ronstadt and her former bandmate in the Stone Poneys, Kenny Edwards. Ronstadt later recorded several Spanish-language albums, including Canciones de Mi Padre and Frenesí. While I was living in San Francisco in the mid-1990’s, I saw Linda Ronstadt’s name on a poster with numerous Latino performers that advertised an upcoming concert. It was a plain two-color poster in the Latino neighborhood called the Mission District and clearly was not aimed at her traditional fans. In 2011, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Recording Academy (known as the Latin Grammies).
(October 2013)
