Linda Perry

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Famous songwriter for stars like Pink, Gwen Stefani, Courtney Love, Kelly Osbourne, and Christina Aguilera.

She wrote her first song, “Pity Girls,” at the age of 15. She also served as lead singer and songwriter for 4 Non Blondes.

She wrote the song What You Waiting For? for Gwen Stefani‘s album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. from 2004.

Her musical talent blossomed thanks to growing up in a musical household. She married actress Sara Gilbert in 2014 and the couple welcomed their first child, a boy named Rhodes Emilio Gilbert Perry, on February 28, 2015. She and Gilbert separated in 2019.

She was responsible for signing and distributing James Blunt within the United States.

In 1965, Perry was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Growing up in an artistic and musical household, Perry displayed musical talent and interest from an early age. Despite struggling with kidney disease and then drug addiction, she still focused on music. Her mother is Brazilian (Marluce Martins Perry) and her father was Portuguese-American (Alfred Xavier Perry).

Linda Perry (born April 15, 1965) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. She 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. They include: “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera; “What You Waiting For?” by Gwen Stefani; and “Get the Party Started” by P!nk. Perry has also contributed to albums by Adele, Alicia Keys, and Courtney Love, as well as signing and distributing James Blunt in the United States. Perry was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015.

In early 1986, at the age of 21, Perry moved to San Francisco. As a teenager in San Diego, she had pursued an interest in music, playing the guitar and auditioning for all-girl cover bands. Her arrival in San Francisco would mark the beginning of a career in music, though not before waiting tables, working coat-check, and working at a pizzeria. In San Francisco, Perry lived in a small, windowless room, and would play her guitar and sing her own songs on city streets.

After some time spent performing solo at Bay Area clubs and coffeehouses, Perry composed her first professional song, called “Down On Your Face,” and was recruited into the band 4 Non Blondes by its founder Christa Hillhouse in the middle of 1989. After several years of playing locally and negotiating with various record companies, the band finally signed with Interscope Records and released its debut album, Bigger, Better, Faster, More! on October 9, 1992. The album, featuring Perry as lead singer and dominated by her compositions, was an immediate success and spawned a hit single, the Perry-penned “What’s Up?” (often erroneously called “What’s Going On?” after its prominent chorus lyric).

Perry is lesbian. She famously displayed the slang word “dyke” on her guitar for a performance with 4 Non Blondes at the 1994 Billboard Music Awards.

In June 1994, 4 Non Blondes guitarist Roger Rocha was replaced by Concrete Blonde member Jim Mankey, who had just played for Van Halen’s cover “I’m the One” recorded as the theme from the movie Airheads. During sessions at Interscope studios in Los Angeles, the band struggled to come up with a followup to Bigger, and Perry left the band during the attempt to pursue a solo career. The band recorded one last video, for a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Misty Mountain Hop” with Dave Navarro on guitar.

In February 1994, Perry had a solo appearance in Roger Daltrey’s production, album and video A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who. She shared the stage with the Juilliard Orchestra and members of The Who as she sang “Doctor Jimmy”, “Acid Queen”, “I’m Free” (in a duet with Roger Daltrey), and the encore for “Join Together” with original The Who members John Entwistle and Pete Townshend. In 1994, a CD and a VHS video of the shows were issued with the songs “Doctor Jimmy” and “I’m Free”, while in 1998 a DVD was released with the song “I’m Free” only.

With the band in disarray and the recording contract unfulfilled, Interscope reluctantly allowed Perry to make a solo CD, dropping the rest of the band. Interscope insisted on choosing the album’s producer; the production team selected was Bill Bottrell and members of the Tuesday Night Music Club, who had recently produced Sheryl Crow’s debut. Released in 1996, In Flight was moody, mellow and, at times, dark, far removed from the 4 Non Blondes sound. The release received positive notices, but was a poor seller. Perry joined Red Fish, Blue Fish for her world tour, supporting such acts as The Who. She promoted her CD with her own funds, including an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, during which she participated in “lesbian dial-a-date” and performed her former band’s only hit single, “What’s Up?” Perry also hosted the 1997 and 1998 Bammies (Bay Area Music Awards).

In 1997, Perry produced a film, Pink as the Day She Was Born, featuring cameos by Les Claypool of Primus and comedian Margaret Cho. She also launched her own record label, Rockstar Records, for the primary purpose of releasing a CD of band Stone Fox. In addition, she signed another local San Francisco band, 2 Lane Blacktop. The year 1998 saw Perry appearing and performing on CNN as part of a special on music and the Internet—how independent artists are cutting out the major labels. In 1999, she released her second solo album on Rockstar Records, After Hours. For the rest of 1999, she opened for Bryan Adams, reuniting with 4 Non Blondes’ bassist Christa Hillhouse, then toured behind After Hours, with Hillhouse and San Francisco-based drummer Claudia Page.

In 2000, Perry was contacted by pop rock singer Pink, seeking production and songwriting assistance on her second album. Perry commented on the experience in an interview with HitQuarters: “She was this white girl singing R&B music, and it made absolutely no sense to me why she would call me. So when I got together with her my instinct said, ‘Don’t go and be an artist again, don’t get another record deal, find out what you can do with her.’ My manager freaked out when I called her and said, cancel all the showcases!” Perry co-wrote and produced much of Pink’s successful album Missundaztood, which brought Perry back into the spotlight as a music producer. Perry took full writing credits for the songs “Get the Party Started” and “Lonely Girl.” Perry next provided Christina Aguilera the hit “Beautiful.”

In 2001, Perry again returned to music and touring. She wrote a handful of songs, two of which, “Beautiful” and “Cruz,” would eventually be recorded and appear on Christina Aguilera’s hit album Stripped. In 2001, she closed most of her shows with “Beautiful,” a song she hoped would be her own comeback hit.

The 2002 Faith Hill album Cry has a song co-written by Perry and Alecia B. Moore (Pink).

In 2002, 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 Zeppelin covers. Also in 2002, she made an appearance on a solo record of Gordon Gano, Hitting the Ground, performing the song “So It Goes.”

In 2003, Perry won two ASCAP 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 2004 Grammy Awards.

For most of 2004, Perry remained behind the scenes, making another appearance with Camp Freddy, this time at Los Angeles’ Live 103’s Birthday Concert. She joined Lisa Marie Presley on stage for songs they wrote together. The year 2004 also saw the release of Courtney Love’s solo America’s Sweetheart, to which Perry heavily contributed.

Releases for 2005 included Kelly Osbourne’s second album, which was written and produced by Perry. The lead track from Osbourne’s second album, “One Word,” reached the top of the UK and US dance charts.

Perry has signed with the independent label Kill Rock Stars Records, who re-released her solo album In Flight in October 2005. Featuring new artwork, the re-release includes original videos for “Fill Me Up” and “Freeway”. In 2008, Perry played guitar in the video for Christina Aguilera’s “Save Me From Myself.” 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.” She also made guest appearances on Hole’s “Nobody’s Daughter” tour and on a concert of the Perry-signed band Little Fish in London. In May 2010, Perry again hosted the “Evening with Women” at L.A.’s Gay and Lesbian Centre, where she reunited with P!nk for a live duet of Perry’s song “What’s Up?” Christina Aguilera invited Perry to her VH1 Storytellers concert in May 2010. Perry played piano to Aguilera’s “Beautiful” and talked about the song.

In 2005, Perry was a performer at ASCAP’s showcase at the Sundance Film Festival. In August 2006, she played piano on Christina Aguilera’s performance of “Hurt” at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Perry contributed to Christina Aguilera’s third studio album, Back to Basics (2006). Perry and Aguilera co-wrote every song on the album’s second disc.

Perry won an award from the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy for her contribution to the world of music. The years 2007 and 2008 saw more tunes written or produced by Linda Perry: The Section Quartet, Alicia Keys, Vanessa Carlton, and Gina Gershon.

2007 saw Perry working with Vanessa Carlton on her third studio album, Heroes and Thieves. She also co-wrote and did session work on many of the songs on Sierra Swan’s solo album, Ladyland. She 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.

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.

Perry was in a relationship with actress Clementine Ford from 2009 to 2010.

She wrote and produced “A Loaded Smile” for the 2009 debut album For Your Entertainment by Adam Lambert. Aguilera’s sixth studio album, Bionic, released in 2010, included another track, written and produced solely by Perry, “Lift Me Up”.

In 2010 and 2011, Perry, along with Fox Entertainment Group, was the Presenting Sponsor of the Los Angeles talent show STARFEST, benefiting The L.A.C.E.R. Afterschool Programs.

In 2010, 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.

In 2010, 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.

In July 2011, Perry started to publish a set of acoustic cover songs that she recorded with her iPhone, including “Mad World” by Tears for Fears, “Just What I Needed” by The Cars, and “Creep” by Radiohead, among many others. On her Facebook account, she wrote: “iPhone sessions are me sitting at my piano an recording song into iPhone voice memo. Then I post it. Very simple enjoy :)”

In a 2011 Rolling Stone interview, while promoting her most recent band, Deep Dark Robot, Perry was quoted saying, “I wasn’t really a big fan of my band” due to the “fluffy polished bullshit” sound of Bigger, Better, Faster, More!

Perry began a relationship with actress Sara Gilbert in 2011. They announced their engagement in April 2013 and married on March 30, 2014. Gilbert gave birth to their son Rhodes Emilio Gilbert Perry, on February 28, 2015. Perry is stepmother to Gilbert’s son and daughter from a previous relationship. In December 2019, Gilbert filed for legal separation from Perry.

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