Linda Perry was born on April 15,1965 and is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
48 Facts About Linda Perry
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Linda Perry was the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, and has since founded two record labels and composed and produced hit songs for several other artists.
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Linda Perry was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.
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Linda Perry's mother is Brazilian and her father was Portuguese-American.
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In early 1986, at the age of 21, Linda Perry moved to San Francisco.
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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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In February 1994, Linda Perry had a solo appearance in Roger Daltrey's production, album and video A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who.
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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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In 1997, Linda Perry produced a film, Pink as the Day She Was Born, featuring cameos by Les Claypool of Primus and comedian Margaret Cho.
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Linda Perry launched her own record label, Rockstar Records, for the primary purpose of releasing a CD of band Stone Fox.
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Linda Perry wrote a handful of songs, two of which, "Beautiful" and "Cruz," appeared on Christina Aguilera's hit album Stripped.
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In 2002, Linda Perry made a rare live performance at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles, where she performed a set of original music and a set of Led Zeppelin covers.
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Linda Perry made a live appearance at a DKNY benefit show in Los Angeles, where she joined Slash on stage for a version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love".
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In 2005, Linda Perry was a performer at ASCAP's showcase at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Linda Perry has signed with the independent label Kill Rock Stars Records, who re-released her solo album In Flight in October 2005.
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In 2008, Linda Perry played guitar in the video for Christina Aguilera's "Save Me from Myself".
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Linda Perry made a live appearance at "Hope For Haiti Now" playing piano while Aguilera premiered a stripped-down version of their song "Lift Me Up".
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Linda Perry made guest appearances on Hole's "Nobody's Daughter" tour and on a concert of the Perry-signed band Little Fish in London.
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Linda Perry played piano to Aguilera's "Beautiful" and talked about the song.
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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 2000, Linda Perry was contacted by pop rock singer Pink, seeking production and songwriting assistance on her second album.
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Linda Perry took full writing credits for the songs "Get the Party Started" and "Lonely Girl".
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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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For most of 2004, Linda Perry remained behind the scenes, making another appearance with Camp Freddy, this time at Los Angeles' Live 103's Birthday Concert.
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Linda Perry joined Lisa Marie Presley on stage for songs they wrote together.
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Linda Perry collaborated with art-dance duo Fischerspooner on a few songs for their upcoming release and ended the year with a few co-writing credits on Gwen Stefani's 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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Linda Perry contributed to Christina Aguilera's third studio album, Back to Basics.
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Linda Perry co-wrote and did session work on many of the songs on Sierra Swan's solo album, Ladyland.
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Linda Perry continued work with Courtney Love, Kelis, Cheap Trick, Ziggy Marley, Ben Jelen, Skin, Enrique Iglesias, The Format on the song "Dead End," and "Darker Side of The Moon" on Bay Area artist Goapele's Change It All album.
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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, titled Baffled and Beat, which was released in August 2010.
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Linda Perry wrote and produced "A Loaded Smile" for the 2009 debut album For Your Entertainment by Adam Lambert.
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In 2010, Linda Perry worked with KT Tunstall and wrote a few songs with her, some of which would later be featured on Tunstall's third studio album Tiger Suit, released in September of that year.
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Linda Perry worked with Rivers Cuomo and Weezer on their song "Brave New World".
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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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In June 2015, Linda Perry was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony in New York.
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In 2015, Linda Perry wrote the theme song for the film Freeheld titled "Hands of Love," performed by Miley Cyrus.
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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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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 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 stepmother to Gilbert's son and daughter from a previous relationship.