JONI MITCHELL IN HOSPITAL
Music icon found unconscious
Legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is in intensive care in a Los Angeles hospital, TMZ reported Tuesday.
Paramedics went to Mitchell’s home in Los Angeles at about 2:30 p.m. PDT after a 911 call reported an unconscious woman, the website said.
Reports said she became responsive on her way to hospital.
Mitchell, 71, has won eight Grammys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
Mitchell suffers from a rare skin condition called Morgellons, 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 sensitivity, Mitchell says on her website. 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-it-iveness 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,” 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.”