| Raised in a minister's home, Linda Scales Mercer has always been involved with music. She began singing with church groups and taking music lessons at age six. By the time she was in junior high school she was playing the piano and cello. However, in high school she realized that her voice was the indeed the most interesting and intriguing instrument she could ever play.
While determined to produce her own distinctive style of song, Linda draws much of her inspiration from great female vocalists like Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae, Etta James, Mahalia Jackson and Barbara Streisand.
As a soloist, Linda has sung throughout the United States and Canada. She has also performed in Bermuda, Germany and Austria. One highlight of her musical career was the opportunity to sing to a crowd of more than 50,000 people at a church function in Holland (1995). More recently Linda spent two weeks as the featured soloist for revival meetings in Cape Town, South Africa (1997).
Linda has done studio work as a soloist and has performed as a background vocalist with local artists such as Jeff Majors, John Stoddart, Maiesha Rashad and others. She is currently writing and arranging songs for a gospel project she hopes to record soon.
In addition to her music, Linda is kept very busy as a single mother and desktop publisher/editor.
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