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.
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Biography

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.

Discography

Solo albums

  • 1989 Vienna
  • 1991 Linda Eder
  • 1994 And So Much More
  • 1997 It's Time
  • 1999 It's No Secret Anymore
  • 2000 Christmas Stays the Same
  • 2002 Gold
  • 2003 Storybook
  • 2003 Broadway, My Way
  • 2005 By Myself: The Songs of Judy Garland
  • 2007 Greatest Hits
  • 2008 The Other Side of Me
  • 2009 Soundtrack
  • 2011 Now
  • 2013 Christmas Where You Are
  • 2014 Linda Live: The Concert Recording
  • 2015 Retro
  • 2018 If You See Me
  • 2020 Retro-Volume Two
  • 2024 TOSOM Live - ''aka The Other Side of Me - Live in Concert''

Musical albums

  • 1990 Jekyll & Hyde: Romantic Highlights - Lucy Harris & Lisa Carew
  • 1992 The Scarlet Pimpernel - Marguerite St. Just
  • 1995 Jekyll & Hyde: The Complete Work - Lucy Harris
  • 1997 Jekyll & Hyde - The Musical: Original Broadway Cast - Lucy Harris
  • 1998 The Scarlet Pimpernel: Encore! - Marguerite St. Just
  • 1998 The Civil War: An American Musical
  • 1998 The Civil War: The Nashville Sessions
  • 2003 Camille Claudel: A New Musical * - Camille Claudel
  • 2004 Cyrano de Bergerac ~ The Musical * - Roxanne
  • 2005 Peter Pan ''World Premiere Recording of the complete Bernstein score - Wendy
  • 2010 Halleluiah Broadway - Herself, "Electricity" )
  • 2011 Tears of Heaven ''
*- Although planned, final outcome was that it was not to be released.

Singles

  • "A Little Bit of Heaven"
  • "Something To Believe In"
  • "Vienna"
  • "Never Dance"
  • "The Christmas Song"
  • "Bells of St. Paul"
  • "Gold"
  • "I Am What I Am"
  • "Lifted"
  • "The Other Side Of Me"

Video albums

  • 1999 In Concert
  • 2001 Christmas Stays The Same
  • 2018 ''The Other Side: An Inside Look At My Life With Out The Audience''