Linda Waterfall

Linda Waterfall

Infobox Musical artist


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Name = Linda Waterfall
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Background = solo_singer
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Born = 1950
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Instrument = Vocals
Guitar
Piano
Keyboards
Genre = Folk
Occupation = Songwriter
Vocalist
Years_active = 1971 to present
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URL = [http://lindawaterfall.com Linda Waterfall's website]

Linda Waterfall (her real name) is a Seattle singer-songwriter. She grew up in northern Illinois and studied piano beginning at the age of eight.Her parents (both musicians) discouraged her from a musical career.She graduated from Stanford University in 1971 with a degree in visual art.

Despite her parents' advice, she began a career in music. She moved to Seattle in 1975 and has toured nationally since 1983.cite book
author=Bush, James
title=Encyclopedia of Northwest Music: From Classical Recordings to Classic Rock Performances, Your Guide to the Best of the Region
publisher=Sasquatch Books
location=Seattle, Wash
year=1999
pages=pp. 269-271
isbn=1-57061-141-6
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In the 1960s, she spent several years as a student of Hari Das Baba and also studied Transcendental Meditation.

She is a breast cancer survivor. [Citation
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first = Paul
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title = Waterfall glides from folk to spiritual in 'That Art Thou'
newspaper = Seattle Times
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year = 2002
date = 2002-05-31
url = http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=jazz31&date=20020531]

Discography

Albums

*"Mary's Garden" (1977, Windham Hill)
*"My Heart Sings" (1979, Trout)
*"Bananaland" (1981, Trout)
*"Everything Looks Different" (1983, Trout) with Scott Nygaard
*"Body English" (1987, Flying Fish)
*"A Little Bit At A Time" (1991, Flying Fish)
*"Flying Time" (1994, Trout)
*"In The Presence of the Light" (1998, Trout/Liquid City)
*"That Art Thou: Songs from the Vedas" (2002, Trout)
*"Place of Refuge" (2006, Trout)
*"Songs From the Dao de Jing" (2007, Trout)

Other Appearances

*"Entropy Service" (1974) with Peter Langston, J.B. White, Judith Cook
* "A Musical Doorway" (2000, Various Artists) Produced by Seattle Folklore Society

References

External links

* [http://lindawaterfall.com/ Linda Waterfall official site]


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