Linda is an accomplished performer who made her entrance onto the jazz stage with a flourish and has performed at many Chicago area venues including Katerina’s,  Pop’s for Champagne, Andy’s Jazz Club, The Green Mill, Toulouse Cognac Bar, Pete Miller’s Steak House, Chambers, The Bop Shop, O’Brien’s Restaurant and Bar, Shuba’s, Border’s Book Stores, Catch 35 Restaurant, the summer music festival at Unity in Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center LunchBreak Jazz Cafe series, SummerDance, and The Metropole Room of the Fairmont Hotel.

In southern California, her performances have included the Palm Desert Public Library music series, Trump Casino, Vicki’s of Santa Fe, Mel Torme’s, Jazz on the Green, and Lyon’s English Grille.

She has performed in concert at the University of Northern Iowa, Prairie State College, and the Claudia Cassidy Theater.

While overseas, she performed with the Curtis Robinson Quartet in Singapore and the Marek Smaus Quartet in Prague.

She also performs for private and corporate events in musical ensembles ranging from duos to big bands.

In 2008, she was recognized as one of the top jazz singers in “The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide” by Scott Yanow.

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Linda’s early musical experiences were shaped by her parents’ love of jazz. Her father’s huge record collection included a veritable jazz cornucopia of legends like Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Billy Eckstein, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme and Ella Fitzgerald. As they were so much a part of her parents’ life, these popular performers of the day influenced her young life. Her parents’ social life included formal parties where the popular big bands of the day used to perform. As a family they regularly attended musical theater and Hollywood musicals at the movies.

She studied piano throughout her childhood, and as a teenager, she performed as a folk singer accompanying herself on guitar. Later, Linda went on to study music at Roosevelt University, earning her bachelor’s degree in music composition, and then at DePaul University where she earned a master’s degree in jazz studies/vocal performance. She completed a year-long course in vocal pedagogy at Northeastern Illinois University and has studied songwriting at Berklee College of Music.

Linda is a recording artist, poet, and composer whose debut CD on Southport Records, We Belong Together, is a very personal collection of songs that includes classic jazz masters and popular musical theater composers as well as the sultry Brazilian strains of Milton Nascimento and contemporary composers like Chick Corea.

Her second CD on Southport Records, Time, Seasons and the Moon, was released in September, 2000 to critical acclaim. This mature collection features songs which are varied in musical timbre and arrangement winding through themes of time, seasons and the moon. She is accompanied by well-known musicians such as the late violinist, Johnny Frigo, Richie Fudoli, Paulinho Garcia, and Curtis Robinson.

In October of 2003, she released her third CD on Southport Records, We Speak Duke to an enthusiastic audience at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theatre. “We Speak Duke” is a magical journey into the music and essence of jazz master, Duke Ellington. With stunning arrangements by Chicago pianist/arranger, Bradley Williams and realized in the studio by his Original 21st Century Review, the album is a delicious epic with multiple singers and horns carrying the weight of traditional swing into the new century.

She is currently at work on her next musical project, “Geography,” to be released in 2012. Inspired by global travel, it is a collection of her original songs.

When her singing and voice-over career allows, she gives vocal instruction and conducts workshops.