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Diversity was the key in Linda Eder's musical influences while growing up in Brainerd, Minnesota. Her Austrian father and Norwegian mother moved to the United States two months before Linda's birth. Music started early. "As a kid, I wanted to be an entertainer, especially after seeing Judy Garland sing Over the Rainbow on TV when I was 8." Eder was certainly influenced by both classical and pop music, but even more so, by the singers themselves. At 16, Linda won the Miss Brainerd beauty pageant, singing a song she'd written herself. After graduating from high school and traveling the nightclub circuit her first big beak came on TV's Star Search, where she had an unprecedented 13-week undefeated run. Star Search proved to be fateful for another reason. While in Hollywood, Linda was introduced to her future husband, composer Frank Wildhorn, who was in the planning stages for the stage for the musical version of Jekyll & Hyde. The couple was married in 1998.
The Chicago Tribune gushed about Linda's voice saying, "Like Ether Merman, Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand before her, Eder has more voice than most mere mortals."
In 1990, Jekyll & Hyde premiered at the Alley Theater in Houston, with Eder in the role of Lucy, the doomed nightclub singer of questionable virtue, who falls under the attention of both the good Dr. Jekyll and his evil alter ego, Edward Hyde. The show went on a 35-city national tour before opening on Broadway at the Plymouth Theater in 1997. Linda's performance earned her love-letter reviews. The USA Today raved, "Eder plays the prostitute Lucy with a captivating presence and a Streisand-esque singing voice that elevates everything it touches." She also gained a legion of devoted fans who call themselves "Jekkies".
Eder has recorded five well received solo albums: Linda Eder (RCA) And So Much More (Angel), It's Time (Atlantic), It's No Secret Anymore (Atlantic), and a holiday album, Christmas Stays the Same (Atlantic), which USA Today ranked as one of it's top ten overall albums of 2000, along side of U2 and Don Henley. She can also be heard on the original Broadway cast album for Jekyll & Hyde (Atlantic) and the original concept albums for Wildhorn's other stage musicals, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Angel) and The Civil War (Atlantic).
With her newest and sixth solo release, Gold (Atlantic), Linda takes a dramatic step into a more contemporary pop genre. Included on the CD are ten new Wildhorn songs, penned with such celebrated lyricists as Robin Lerner (known for her work with Faith Hill), David Zippel (City of Angels, Mulan), Nan Knighton (The Scarlet Pimpernel, Saturday Night Fever), and frequent Wildhorn collaborator Jack Murphy. Linda also brings her intuitive phrasing and emotional quality to some of her favorite tunes, like Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man, Dobie Gray's Drift Away, Boz Scaggs' We're All Alone and George Harrison's Here Comes The Sun.
The title track, Gold, is a shining highlight from the new, Broadway-bound musical Camille Claudel, which Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton have written for Eder. Based on a true story of the French sculptress Camille Claudel, prot�g�, mistress and muse of the sculptor Gustave Rodin, the musical is the next project on Linda's schedule. This cut was heard by more than 3.5 billion people as a centerpiece at the opening ceremonies at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. In conjunction to the release of Gold, Bravo Profiles aired a one-hour program on Linda.
In the past years, Linda has been touring in concert with some of the most prestigious symphony orchestras and conductors in the country, including Marvin Hamlisch and Keith Lockart. She has sold out Carnegie Hall twice, prompting nationally syndicated columnist Liz Smith to enthuse, "I think the word diva, as in divine, is called for. What a powerhouse of a voice, what stunning musicality and phrasing, what a great, mysterious sense of warmth, what a wonderful way to spend an evening." The heavy concert schedule culminated in a holiday run on Broadway at the Gershwin Theater in 2001. Today, Linda can rightfully take her place with an upper echelon of performers like Frank, Judy, Liza and Sammy, all of whom appeared in concert on Broadway. A version of the concert was filmed as a Christmas special for the Bravo Television Network.
Television viewers have become accustomed to the face and voice of Linda Eder, thanks to appearances on national talk and entertainment programs. Rosie O'Donnell, Larry King, Regis & Kathie Lee and David Letterman have all invited Eder onto their shows time and time again to be part of their TV family. Linda credits her father and his movie camera for her comfort on the small screen.
Linda loves spending all her free time at home with her husband Frank, their son Jake Ryan, and their growing collection of horses and dogs.
For more information, visit lindaeder.com
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