{"id":404856,"date":"2025-09-07T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404856\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:06:11","slug":"aaron-neville-and-linda-ronstadt-were-a-perfect-music-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404856\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt were a perfect music match"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aaron<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Aaron Neville \/ Linda Ronstadt)<\/p>\n

Sat 6 September 2025 18:45, UK <\/p>\n

When Linda Ronstadt<\/a> and Aaron Neville first got together for 1989\u2019s Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind, they probably didn\u2019t know it\u2019d end up in Grammy wins. Or a suspected romance narrative.<\/p>\n

The pair had met a few years earlier at the World\u2019s Fair in 1984 and realised, already, they were kindred spirits. Maybe it was an aura only they saw, or the fact that they both had a delicate vocal charm nobody else had, then or since. But whatever it was, it was a match made in heaven.<\/p>\n

One of the first songs they picked together was \u2018Don\u2019t Know Much\u2019. For the music video, they played the parts of two people in love. It seemed their mutual adoration for one another was so strong that people thought they were actually a couple, but all it was was genuine chemistry, one artistic heart bound to another.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guy who directed called us in a room and said, \u2018Look \u2013 if y\u2019all ain\u2019t gonna make this thing believable, there ain\u2019t no sense in doin\u2019 it,\u2019\u201d Neville would recall years later to Mojo in 2013. \u201cLinda\u2019s a pretty woman, it wasn\u2019t hard to portray that,\u201d he added. \u201cBut they had all kinda stupid rumours out. None of \u2019em were true \u2018cos we\u2019re friends. We respected each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Funnily enough, he did also say that whenever he watches the video now, it does look \u201csuspect\u201d. But it was believable, in part, because none of it was a lie. Obviously, they weren\u2019t in an actual relationship. But they were drawn to each other from day one because they both had this inexplicable charm, artistically, a trait they both shared and recognised in one another.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something Ronstadt would explain more than once \u2013 how it was all about that natural pull, because for her, Neville held a magic beyond simple description. But mostly, it reminded her of other things she loved, things that had ventured overseas when others had long forgotten them. \u201cHe has a certain singing style related to French baroque opera, which got imported into the American South in the 18th century,\u201d she told The Guardian. \u201cHis falsetto is very evocative of that, and that \u2013 the Creole tradition \u2013 was interesting to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

This falsetto can be heard in \u2018Arianne\u2019, which Ronstadt also said was one of her all-time favourite songs. Showing off everything great about Neville, like his unmistakable vocal intensity and ability to tell a story with various shifting dynamics<\/a>, \u2018Arianne\u2019 catapulted Neville to some godly position for Ronstadt, enough for her to feel gobsmacked that he even knew who she was. She described the song as \u201cbeautiful\u201d, but also retold the story of how surprised she was when he called her upon stage one night, thinking she was just another anonymous member of the audience in the presence of greatness.<\/p>\n

But what ensued wasn\u2019t just, as we know, a one-sided admiration. They might\u2019ve found themselves in similar spaces because they both had incredible talent. But ultimately, it was about that energy they shared, and how no one did it like them. When they were in a room together, nothing was forced, and it\u2019s like emotion poured out of them like that was what they were always destined to do.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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