Linda Eder

Linda Eder
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Linda Eder

Born	3 February 1961 (1961-02-03) (age 47) Tucson, Arizona
Occupation	Singer and Actress
Spouse(s)	Frank Wildhorn (1998-2004)
Official website

Linda Eder (born February 3, 1961) is an American singer and actress.

Born in Tucson, Arizona on February 3, 1961 and raised in Brainerd, Minnesota. Her parents, Georg (from Austria) and Leila (from Norway), Eder was exposed to music at an early age. She cites Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, and Eileen Farrell as her childhood inspiration. Eder denotes Garland, specifically, as her greatest influence.

Eder has performed on numerous occasions at New York's Carnegie Hall and Palace Theater, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, State Theatre in Minneapolis, Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, and at the Wortham Center in Houston.

Before her work on Broadway, Eder gained experience in the entertainment industry. She teamed up with classmate Paul Todd, who had won international awards for his piano and organ playing, and began the "Paul and Linda Show". They traveled all over the U.S. performing concerts. After the duo went separate ways, Eder tried her hand at the talent show, Star Search, where she reigned undefeated for a record 13 weeks. Her performance caught the notice of Angel Records and, subsequently, Frank Wildhorn. She starred in two 1991 stagings of his musical Svengali, the 1997 Broadway production of his Jekyll & Hyde, and the 2003 Goodspeed Musicals production of his Camille Claudel. The two married in 1998 and divorced in 2004; they have one son, Jake. Eder also appeared in the title role in the Connecticut tryout run of Camille Claudel, with a score by Wildhorn and Nan Knighton. The show has yet to open on Broadway. Eder is a recipient of the Theater World Award (1996-97) for her work in Jekyll & Hyde.

1 The Other Side of Me
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
- 2.2 Singles
3 Awards
4 External links

The Other Side of Me

To be released on September 30, 2008, her new CD The Other Side of Me will have a pop/country feel that is "heavy on acoustic guitar with melodies and rhythms designed to make you feel good as you drive down a stretch of highway or a country road."^{citation needed} This is a departure from the style she is known for which is standards and ballads. Her official site www.LindaEder.com has a posting where Linda says "It took a year and a half to make my new CD, the other side of me, but in reality, it has been a lifetime in the making."^{citation needed}

She goes on to say:

As a kid I was a talented but undisciplined piano student. So in one of our early changes of address, the upright piano was left behind. As a young teenager I bought myself a cheap acoustic guitar so I would have a way to accompany my inner poet. What I wrote in those early years and the voice that I used to sing was the truest expression of who I really am. There were no outside influences to color or shape the vowels or direct the emotions. There was no record of past performances to measure up to, just my own words, my own history, and my own voice.

I have finally been given the chance to strip away the costume and sing without the voice of others in my head. I've traveled a long road to find my way back home and I have found it. The Other Side of Me is my voice.^{citation needed}