LINDA ROSSI was influenced by her father’s beautiful voice, and love of music. Her earliest piano teacher was her ‘Uncle Vince’ who was a club musician and a long-time staple at Disneyland’s Golden Horseshoe Saloon. Vocal tutoring took place in the church balcony, and expanded to private operatic study with Primo Lino Puccinelli in Pasadena, California. A Liberal Arts education and advanced music theory followed. The highlight of her formal training came when she invested several years studying with the renowned Tom Blaylock in Portland, Oregon.
Linda has been singing professionally since 1980 with several touring bands, including her favorite, the eight-piece big band Linda Trotta and Out of the Blue, a club favorite and regular at Waterfront events. She has shared stages through the years with local artists such as Duffy Bishop, Robbie Laws, Paulette, Rae Gordon, LaRhonda Steele, Ellen Whyte and many others.
Her passion now is the envelope-pushing ‘New Thought’ R&B venture Linda Rossi & the Friends Band comprised of Ken Brewer, Don Shultz, and Jim Solberg. A life-long student of spirituality, she currently performs in New Thought Churches, most notably the Portland Center for Spiritual Living where she is Music Director. Recordings include “Upside of the Blues” and “Rough Cuts.”
503-318-2116
Email: rossi.linda07@gmail.com
http://www.lindarossi.net