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The clips show a vibrant and enthusiastic singer in the 1960s, decades before Parkinson鈥檚 disease silenced her voice and limited her mobility, belting out rock tunes in packed arenas and on TV.

But if you ask Ronstadt about those old clips, you will hear her cringe.

She hates them.

鈥淚 can鈥檛 bear to look at any of that,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 know what I was doing. I didn鈥檛 know how to sing. ... It took me a long time to get where I could sing well.鈥�

The 蜜柚直播 native released 24 studio albums, was nominated for 30 Grammys and took home 11, and sold more than 100 million albums in a 40-year career that transcended pop, country, folk, opera, the Great American Songbook and Mexican folk songs 鈥� but she says it took her years before she felt comfortable in her voice.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 like a lot of the stuff I recorded in the past,鈥� said Ronstadt, 73, during a phone call from her San Francisco home last week.

鈥淭he Sound of My Voice,鈥� which opened in theaters nationwide last Friday and opens at the Loft Cinema on Friday, Sept. 13, recounts the full breadth of Ronstadt鈥檚 career, from the time she left 蜜柚直播 for Los Angeles when she was barely 18 to her fairly fast rise from small clubs to record deals and record books as the most successful female artist of her generation.

The movie opens with Ronstadt sitting among a colorful troupe of dancers and Mexican singers in a public square of Ban谩michi, in the Rio Sonora region of Mexico where her grandfather was born. Ronstadt made the trip last winter, a pilgrimage of sorts with extended family members and old friends, including the singer Jackson Browne.

In a voice-over while the Ban谩michi scene plays out, Ronstadt says, 鈥淪omeone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons that birds sing. 鈥� They sing so the subsequent generations won鈥檛 forget what the current generations endured or dreamed or delighted in.鈥�

And in the next breath, Ronstadt downplays her role in pop music.

鈥淭here are a lot of really good singers out in the world and a lot better singers than I am,鈥� she says. 鈥淲hat I did that was different from other singers, I did a whole lot of different kinds of material. People would think that I was trying to reinvent myself, but I never invented myself to start with. I just kind of popped out into the world.鈥�

鈥淭he Sound of My Voice鈥� is based on Ronstadt鈥檚 2013 book 鈥淪imple Dreams: A Musical Memoir鈥� and focuses solely on her musical journey. We see her transformation from playing rock arenas and selling platinum pop albums to hitting heart-stopping soprano notes on Broadway in Gilbert & Sullivan鈥檚 operetta 鈥淭he Pirates of Penzance.鈥�

That, she said during last week鈥檚 phone call, was where she started to find her voice.

鈥淚 sang operetta first, and that brought in my upper register a little bit more,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hen I sang standards and that brought in the whole part of my personality and my upbringing that had been denied in rock 鈥檔鈥� roll. Those American standards songs are such masterpieces of songwriting craft. They allowed me to use a whole part of my voice that I wasn鈥檛 allowed to use in pop music, well in rock 鈥檔鈥� roll sort of pop music. And then I sang Mexican music and that put a cherry on top. I had my complete voice. I wasn鈥檛 limited to shouting over an electric band in a stadium that wasn鈥檛 made for music.鈥�

As of last week, Ronstadt had only seen the rough cut of the film. She said watching it was 鈥渂izarre, like watching my whole life flash before my face.鈥�

鈥淚 got to talk with my feelings, my emotions, to tell my story and see what I felt about while I was telling it,鈥� she said, saying the process in some ways was cathartic. 鈥淪ometimes I didn鈥檛 realize I felt this way. Sometimes it鈥檚 a shock of recognition of a feeling or emotion that you had that you didn鈥檛 realize you had.鈥�