{"id":46193,"date":"2015-04-02T18:17:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46193"},"modified":"2015-04-02T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:19:10","slug":"canadian-singer-songwriter-joni-mitchell-hospitalized-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/02\/canadian-singer-songwriter-joni-mitchell-hospitalized-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian singer songwriter Joni Mitchell hospitalized in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:393px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:151.145038% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/462952738?et=mBKouI_HSdNgpTkIU13OeA&#038;sig=pAGWWnmt8FkWo8n1UNTJJaoBkIoH_LmXRIq-BshN0lQ=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"393\" height=\"594\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/462952738\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Joni Mitchell was in intensive care in a Los Angeles-area hospital on Tuesday, according to the Twitter account and website of the folk singer and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joni was found unconscious in her home this afternoon,&#8221; said a statement on the Mitchell website. &#8220;She is currently in intensive care undergoing tests and is awake and in good spirits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear what illness she had.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles fire officials said paramedics answered an afternoon 911 call in Bel Air, where Mitchell lives, and took a patient to the hospital. But they could not verify her identity or give details on her condition.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old singer-songwriter told Billboard magazine in December that she has a rare skin condition, Morgellons disease, which prevents her from performing. Still, she released a career-spanning four-disc box set last year and appeared at Clive Davis&#8217; annual pre-Grammy party in February.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell has received eight Grammy Awards, including a lifetime achievement award in 2002. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, who was born in Fort Macleod, Alta., is also a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>She has a star on Canada&#8217;s Walk of Fame in Toronto and a commemorative stamp, and is a companion of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>She started her career as a street musician before moving to Southern California, where she became part of the flourishing folk scene in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Her second album, &#8220;Clouds,&#8221; was a breakthrough with such songs as &#8220;Both Sides Now&#8221; and &#8220;Chelsea Morning,&#8221; winning Mitchell the Grammy for best folk performance. Her 1970 album, &#8220;Ladies of the Canyon,&#8221; featured the hit single &#8220;Big Yellow Taxi&#8221; and the era-defining &#8220;Woodstock.&#8221; The following year, she released &#8220;Blue,&#8221; which ranks 30th on Rolling Stone magazine&#8217;s list of the &#8220;500 Greatest Albums of All Time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell has released 19 original albums, the most recent in 2007. The anthology released last year, &#8220;Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced,&#8221; features remastered versions of 53 of her songs.<\/p>\n<p>Her musical style integrates folk and jazz elements, and she counts jazz giants Charles Mingus and Pat Metheny among her past collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>As with music, Mitchell taught herself painting as a child and has produced hundreds of works in ink, watercolour and acrylic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com LOS ANGELES &#8212; Joni Mitchell was in intensive care in a Los Angeles-area hospital on Tuesday, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":46228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}