Joni Mitchell reportedly hospitalized in Los Angeles
Legendary Canadian singersongwriter Joni Mitchell is in intensive care in a Los Angeles hospital, TMZ reported Tuesday.
Paramedics went to Ms. Mitchell’s home in Los Angeles at about 2:30 p.m. PDT after a 911 call reported an unconscious female, the website said.
Reports said she became responsive on her way to hospital.
Ms. Mitchell, 71, has won eight Grammys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
Among her most notable songs are “Big Yellow Taxi” and “Woodstock.” Her best-selling album, Court and Spark, which was released in 1974, featured the hit Free Man in Paris.
Mitchell suffers from a rare skin condition called Morgel- lons, the singer said in an interview last year. The condition confined her to her home, she said.
Mitchell was born in Fort Macleod, Alta., on Nov. 7, 1943, and moved with her family to North Battleford, Sask., after the Second World War and then to Saskatoon during the early 1950s.
At age 9, she contracted polio. As she convalesced, she developed an artistic sensitiv- ity, Ms. Mitchell says on her website. “A great sorrow hath humanized me.”
She recovered from the disease, and returned to her life in Saskatoon.
After high school, Joni spent one year at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary. She came across a club called The Depression in Calgary and become a regular performer.
“My childhood longing mostly was to be a painter, yet before I went to art college my mother said to me that my stick-to-itiveness in certain things was never that great, and she said you’re going to get to art college and you’re going to get distracted, you know,” Ms. Mitchell says on her website.
“Yet all I wanted to do was paint. When I got there, however, it seemed that a lot of the courses were meaningless to me and not particularly creative. And so, at the end of the year I said to my mother: ‘I’m going to Toronto to be a folksinger.’ And I fulfilled her prophecy.”