About Linda Eder

Linda Eder ) is an American singer and actress. She originated the role of Lucy Harris in the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde, for which she was nominated for the Drama Desk Award.

Eder was born in Tucson, Arizona, on February 3, 1961, and raised in Garrison, Minnesota. Her parents, Georg and Laila , exposed her to music at an early age. She cites Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, and Eileen Farrell as her childhood inspiration. Eder cites Garland, specifically, as her greatest influence.

Before her work on Broadway, Eder sang in clubs in Minneapolis and performed at Harrah's Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1988 she won the talent show Star Search, where her performance caught the notice of Frank Wildhorn. She signed with RCA Records and starred in two 1991 stagings of Wildhorn's musical Svengali , the 1997 Broadway production of his Jekyll & Hyde, and the 2003 World Premiere of Camille Claudel. During those years, Eder recorded several CDs on Angel Records and Atlantic Records. Wildhorn and Eder married in 1998 and divorced in 2004; they have one son, Jake. Eder won the Theater World Award for Best Broadway Debut in Jekyll & Hyde.

Since her divorce from Wildhorn, Eder has mainly performed in live concerts at venues including the Greek Theater, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. She has continued to release solo albums, including one recorded live at Skidmore College in 2014, and a 2024 delayed release of TOSOSM - The Other Side of Me - Live, recorded during her 2018 touring season of the concert series by the same name.

*- Although planned, final outcome was that it was not to be released.

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