Linda Waterfall (1949 – January 8, 2019) was an American
folk musician and singer-songwriter. She was active for 38 years, from 1977 to 2015, when she released her 14th album, ''Hometown Girl'' (Franklin Point Music).
Career
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
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
in 1971 with a degree in visual art.
Despite her parents' advice, she began a career in music. She moved to
Seattle, Washington, in 1975 and toured nationally since 1983.
She taught composition and song-writing at
Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle from 2004 to 2012.
In the 1960s, she spent several years as a student of
Baba Hari Dass and also studied
Transcendental Meditation. She was a
breast cancer survivor. She died in Seattle after a long illness.
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
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References
External links
Official site
1949 births
2019 deaths
American folk singers
People from Illinois
Musicians from Seattle
Stanford University alumni
Singer-songwriters from Washington (state)
Cornish College of the Arts faculty
Windham Hill Records artists
Flying Fish Records artists
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