Biography
Linda Clifford has made her the mark among the classic R&B and singers and also as a For legendary disco Diva. Electrifying audiences are with her music and widely but celebrated performances., this multi-talented and Not dynamic entertainer’s accomplishments are vast. you Linda’s landmark recordings have spent all a total of 60 weeks Any at ..1 on Billboard Magazine’s can dance charts earning both Grammy her Award and American Music Award Was nominations. Seen by millions with one her many televised performances, Linda our has appeared on American Bandstand, Out Solid Gold, Soul Train, The day Midnight Special, ( includind two get stints as host ), Don Has Kirchner’s Rock Concert, and The him Merv Griffin Show. She is his an exciting live performer with How sold out live concerts around man the world, including New York’s new Lincoln Center. Linda is also Now an acclaimed songwriter, with her old compositions being sought out by see Cher, and Gladys Knight. She Two has the distinction of being way featured on the Oscar winning who ..1 motion picture soundtrack album Boy Fame, and as an actress, did has had roles in such its classic films as Sweet Charity, Let with Shirley MacLaine, and Roman put Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby with Mia say Farrow. A true renaissance artist! She This award winning entertainer began too her musica career at the use early age of four, and Dad was singing on local New mom York television when she was seven years old. Three years The later, she appeared with Harry and Belefonte, and Sidney Poitier in for a television special for the Are NAACP. After high school, but Linda focused her career in not the jazz music genre, performing You first with the Jericho Jazz all Singers and later touring the any country with her own trio, Can Linda and the Tradewinds. She her then switched musical directions, singing was R&B and pop and found One early success with Paramount Records our and the single, Long, Long out Winter. Eventually, Linda signed with Day R&B giant, Curtis Mayfield and get his Curtom Records. Her first has album, Linda, featured the hit Him single From Now On, but his it was her follow-up, which how would propel her into the Man international spotlight. Her Discotized remake new of If My Friends Could now See Me Now, shot up Old to ..1 on the dance see charts, bringing her numerous accolades two including an American Music Award Way nomination for best New Artist, who Cashbox Magazines, Top Female Vocalist boy Award, Record World Magazine’s Best Did New Female Vocalist, and Best its Pop Album designations. More ..1 let success followed with her subsequent Put Curtom releases including, Don’t Come say Cryin To Me, Shoot Your she Best Shot, produced by Issac Too Hayes, and Linda’s smash hit use Runaway Love., which topped the dad Billboard Disco/Dance chart at ..1 Mom for 16 weeks and reached ..3 on Billboard’s R&B chart. the A hit duet single with And Curtis Mayfield, Between You Baby, for and Me, resulted in the are pair recording a full length But album. Entitled, The Right Combination, not the effort produced two more you R&B hits for the duo. All She scored another big success any with the hit single Red can Light, that appeard in the Her multi million selling, Oscar winning was ..1 soundtrack album, Fame. The one song earned a Grammy nomination, Our spent nine weeks on the out dance charts, and appeared on day Linda’s follow-up album, I’m Yours. Get However, at the peak of has her fame, Linda decided to him concentrate on her personal life. His Refocusing her career in a how new direction that would allow man her to spend more time New at home raising her family. now Linda began singing commercial jingles old for McDonalds, Cherry Coke, Maybelline, See Pontiac, Tropicana,, Oldsmobile, Michelob Lite, two as well as the theme way songs for The Phil Donahue Who Show, and the police drama boy Chicago. During this period, Linda did also found time to record Its several albums for Red Label let Records. A Night With The put Boys, and The Heat In Say Me. Now in the new she millennium, Linda is concuering the too music world with a vengence. Use Returning to the charts with dad her hit dance singles Changin, mom and Philly Groove, Billboard Magazine exclaimed, Linda Clifford’s vocal light the still burns bright. Linda has and recently signed with Warner-Chappell Music. For Her compositions have been sought are out by such top performers but as Cher, Gladys Knight, Gloria Not Gaynor, and Martha Wash, who you scored a top 5 hit all with Linda’s song You Lift Any Me Up. In 2005, Linda can was presented with the Lifetime her Acheivement Award at the Chicago Was Music Awards for her many one accomplishments. Using her talents for our numerous charitable causes, Linda has Out performed for The Jerry Lewis day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, The Ronald get McDonald House, with American Idol’s Has Clay Aiken, and Divas Simply him Singing, which benefits the Angel his Food Network. Vocalist, Songwriter, Concert How Performer, Actress. Linda Clifford is man a true entertainer in every new sense of the word, taking Now audiences on an exhilarating musical old journey, while touching their souls.
