Pocha sweetheart Linda Ronstadt was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama on Monday, citing the singer’s “one-of-a-kind voice and her decades of remarkable music.” The actual awards start after 5:30 or so in the video.
Sadly, Ronstadt can no longer sing. This spring, she told Diane Sawyer why:
Our Comic Saenz, who is really old, actually saw La Linda perform with the Stone Ponys, singing her first hit Different Drum:
And POCHO will never forget her Canciones de Mi Padre:
¡Felicidades, La Linda!