 LINDA EDER spent the last decade working nonstop. In ten years, she has done the impossible...sky rocketing from All-American Minnesota country girl to the most bankable star on Broadway. Now, with a dream husband and a dream baby, she is going for the GOLD a record-breaking tour, an upcoming Broadway show and an Olympic-sized record-launch at the Salt Lake City opening ceremonies. Eder has recorded five well-received solo albums: LINDA EDER (RCA), AND SO MUCH MORE (Angel), IT'S TIME (Atlantic), IT'S NO SECRET ANYMORE (Atlantic), and a holiday album, CHRISTMAS STAYS THE SAME (Atlantic), which USA Today ranked as one of it's top ten overall albums of 2000, along side U2 and Don Henley. She can also be heard on the original Broadway cast album for Jekyll & Hyde (Atlantic) and the original concept albums for Wildhorn's other stage musicals, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Angel) and The Civil War (Atlantic). Linda has been touring in concert with the most prestigious symphony orchestras and conductors in the country, including Marvin Hamlisch and Keith Lockhart. She has sold out Carnegie Hall twice, prompting nationally syndicated columnist Liz Smith to enthuse, "I think the word diva, as in divine, is called for. What a powerhouse of a voice, what stunning musicality and phrasing, what a great, mysterious sense of warmth, what a wonderful way to spend an evening." The heavy concert schedule culminated in a holiday run on Broadway at the Gershwin Theater in 2001. Now, Linda can now rightfully take her place with an upper echelon of performers like Frank, Judy, Liza and Sammy, all of whom have appeared in concert on Broadway. Of joining those ranks, Linda says, "I don't think about that. I was offered the run and immediately thought, 'Yikes! Can I do this? Two hours of nonstop singing is a lot of work! It's a full-body experience for me. It's not like a musical where you have a handful of songs with time in between. The concert was packed with huge eleven o'clock numbers! I was excited just to survive it!' Survive she did, and the result is a concert so successful that a version of it was filmed as a Christmas special for the Bravo Television Network. Television viewers have become accustomed to the face and voice of Linda Eder, thanks to appearances on national talk and entertainment programs. Rosie O'Donnell, Larry King, Regis & Kathie Lee and David Letterman have all invited Eder onto their shows time and time again to be part of their TV family.
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