1. Linda Perry was born on April 15,1965 and is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
38 Facts About Linda Perry
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Linda Perry was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Linda Perry was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on April 15,1965.
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Linda Perry's father was Alfred Xavier Perry, a musician and engineer of Portuguese descent.
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Linda Perry's mother is Marluce Martins Perry, a model and designer of Brazilian descent.
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Linda Perry spent her teenage years in San Diego before moving to San Francisco in 1986 at the age of 21.
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In San Francisco, Linda Perry lived in a small, windowless room, and would play her guitar and sing her own songs on city streets.
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Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins, who at the time was a struggling musician living in San Francisco, later recalled sitting in a room with Linda Perry, who worked as a waitress down the street, performing their original compositions to one another.
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Linda Perry performed solo at Bay Area clubs and coffeehouses, including Nightbreak, Paradise Lounge, DNA Lounge, and The Kennel Club.
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Linda Perry composed her first professional song, entitled "Down On Your Face," and was recruited into the band 4 Non Blondes by its founder Christa Hillhouse in the middle of 1989.
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Linda Perry cited dissatisfaction with the first album and ongoing creative disagreements between herself and the band.
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Linda Perry joined Red Fish, Blue Fish for her world tour, supporting such acts as The Who.
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Linda Perry had begun acquiring recording equipment, including a TASCAM DA-88 recorder, Neumann U 67 microphone, and Fairchild 670 compressor.
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Linda Perry sent the song to Madonna's manager Guy Oseary, who turned it down.
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In 2000, Linda Perry was contacted by pop rock singer Pink, seeking production and songwriting assistance on her second album, Missundaztood.
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Linda Perry co-wrote and produced much of the album, including full writing credits for the songs "Lonely Girl" and "Get the Party Started", which was released as the album's lead single and became Pink's biggest hit to date.
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In 2003, Linda Perry won two American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awards for her songwriting, and a Grammy Awards nomination for her song "Beautiful" as a contender for "Song of the Year"; the song received the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards.
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Linda Perry collaborated with art-dance duo Fischerspooner on a few songs for their sophomore album and ended the year with a few co-writing credits on Gwen Stefani's solo debut, Love.
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Linda Perry produced and played guitar on the recording of Blunt's song "No Bravery".
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The year ended with Linda Perry co-writing "Save Me" for the southern California punk rock band Unwritten Law.
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In late 2006 and early 2007, Linda Perry contributed production and songwriting to Vanessa Carlton's third studio album, Heroes and Thieves.
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Linda Perry won an award from the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy for her contribution to the world of music.
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Linda Perry signed the group Little Fish to her label in 2008 and began producing its album, Baffled and Beat, which was released in August 2010.
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Linda Perry wrote and produced "A Loaded Smile" for Adam Lambert's debut studio album For Your Entertainment.
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On November 5,2010, Linda Perry appeared live in San Francisco with 4 Non Blondes guitar player Roger Rocha at TwentyFifty.
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Linda Perry performed a solo set of cover tunes, including Radiohead's "Creep" and Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun".
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In June 2010, Linda Perry announced on her Facebook and Twitter profiles that she was "going to make an album" with her new band Deep Dark Robot, which she founded with Tony Tornay.
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Linda Perry was scheduled to appear as the house band in a special series of late night editions of The Talk airing the week of January 12,2015 in the 12:34 am time slot of The Late Late Show.
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Linda Perry co-wrote a song with Adele for her 2015 album 25 titled "Can't Let Go" which was included as a bonus track on the Target and Japanese editions.
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Linda Perry wrote the theme song for the film Freeheld titled "Hands of Love," performed by Miley Cyrus.
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In June 2015, Linda Perry was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony in New York.
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In 2018, Linda Perry collaborated with Dolly Parton, writing the Golden Globe-nominated "Girl In The Movies" for the Netflix film Dumplin'.
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In 2020, Linda Perry co-wrote "A Beautiful Noise" with seven other female writers - Alicia Keys, Brandi Carlile, Brandy Clark, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Hailey Whitters and Ruby Amanfu - and the song was performed by Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlile with the purpose of inspiring American voters to vote in the 2020 Presidential Election.
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In 2017, Linda Perry partnered with Kerry Brown to launch We Are Hear, a record label, music publisher, and artist management company based in Los Angeles.
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Linda Perry moved from San Diego to San Francisco and lived there until 1997, moving to Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.
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Linda Perry was in a relationship with actress Clementine Ford from 2009 to 2010.
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Linda Perry began a relationship with actress Sara Gilbert in 2011.
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Linda Perry was the stepmother of Gilbert's son and daughter from a previous relationship with television producer Ali Adler.