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Genres
  
Folk

Role
  
Musician

Name
  
Linda Waterfall

Years active
  
1971 to present


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Instruments
  
Vocals Guitar Piano Keyboards

Website
  
Linda Waterfall's website

Occupation(s)
  
Songwriter Vocalist

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Linda Waterfall is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter. She has recorded since 1977. In 2015 she released her 14th album, Hometown Girl (Franklin Point Music).

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Career

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Waterfall grew up in northern Illinois and began studying piano 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.

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Despite her parents' advice, she began a career in music. She moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1975 and has toured nationally since 1983.

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.

Discography

  • Mary's Garden (1977, Windham Hill)
  • My Heart Sings (1979, Trout)
  • Bananaland (1981, Trout)
  • Everything Looks Different with Scott Nygaard (1983, Trout)
  • 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)
  • Welcome to the Dark (2009)
  • Hometown Girl (2015, Franklin Point)
  • 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

    Linda Waterfall Wikipedia