Linda Ronstadt: On getting to fully embrace her Mexican heritage in her music

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Linda Ronstadt is this week's guest on Alt.Latino.

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Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with Linda Ronstadt, who recently released her book Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands, to talk about her Mexican heritage, wanting to sing in Spanish earlier in her career and not feeling like "the quintessential American girl."

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