The rise of musician biopics continues: Selena Gómez will star in one about Linda Ronstadt

Selena Gomez has been confirmed as the protagonist of the film about the life of the Mexican-American singer-songwriter Linda Ronstadtconsidered the first Latin woman to succeed in music in English.

Although not many details have emerged at the moment, a publication on Instagram by Gómez herself has hinted that the story will follow Ronstadt’s autobiographical stages and the title used for the biopic is Simple dreams (Simple dreams).

The story will be based on a book published in 2013 (Feel like at home), a bestseller that chronicles the life of the artist born to a Mexican-American family in Tucson, Arizona.

According to the trade press, the film will be directed by Ronstadt’s manager, John Boylan, and director James Keach, who also produced the documentary in 2019. Linda Ronstadt: The sound of my voicewhich can be seen on Prime Video.

From the beginning of her career, Ronstadt has defended her Latin roots and included Mexican music in her repertoire, although she is best known for her rock, folk and country songs.

Selena Gómez, also of Mexican origins and both an actress and singer-songwriter, spoke about herself last week in the podcast Without intelligence that he will abandon his music career after the album he plans to release this year.

“I think I have another album in me, but I’m already tired of the music,” she confessed, after revealing that her first love is acting and that she only started singing because she was in the Disney car, when she starred in the series. Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).

Currently, Gómez stars in the series Only murders in the building, from HBO, starring veterans Steve Martin and Martin Short. His next film will be released this year Emilia Perezthe first who did speak in Spanish.

With Parkinson’s

For her part, Ronstadt, now 77, has been retired since 2011. A year after stepping away from music, it was learned that the singer had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and that her voice had been severely affected.

Over the course of her career, the artist recorded 30 studio albums, participated in more than 120 record productions and managed to sell around 100 million records.

In 1987, Ronstadt explored her Mexican heritage in production my father’s songs, featuring nine rancheras that he performed in Spanish and which also included mariachis. The album earned him a Grammy Award in the Best Mexican-American Performance category.

He subsequently released albums More songs AND Frenzyin 1989 and 1991, for which he won the Grammy for Best Mexican-American Music Album and the Latin Grammy for Best Tropical Music Album, respectively.

“I don’t believe in happy songs,” he once said. She never married, although she had no shortage of suitors. In the 1970s she had a publicized affair with Jerry Brown, then governor of California. “Relationships are almost impossible. On the one hand you have the possibility of having new ones every three seconds. And on the other hand, you don’t hang around long enough. The people I’ve come into contact with are other musicians, and all of them are very competitive.”