90年因演出Frank Wildhorn、Leslie Bricusse作曲填词的惊悚音乐剧【变身怪医/Jekyll & Hyde】中女主角Lucy Harries而广受好评的Linda Eder,开始了多彩的音乐生涯,发行了数张个人专辑: Linda Eder、And So Much More、It's Time;也产生了A Little Bit Of Heaven、Is This Any Way To Fall In Love?、Someone Like You…等雅俗共赏的招牌曲;也在数张音乐剧专辑:Highlights From Jekyll & Hyde、The Scarlet Pimpernel、The Civil War…担任要角,更建立无论流行、爵士、音乐剧、酒馆乐种风格都游刃有余的本事,以其宽广的音域及对音乐的热情。
从小Linda Eder对流行、摇滚乐的兴趣远低于同侪,反倒是对较老的音乐产生热情,观赏39年经典名片The Wizard Of OZ/ 绿野仙踪,听到Judy Garland唱着令人深深感动的Over The Rainbow时,Linda的内心深处呼喊着:I Want To Do That。经过一段音乐的摸索期,Linda终于碰到音乐生涯的伯乐也是现在的老公名剧作家Frank Wildhorn,也从此开始丰富的音乐之旅。
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靓绝的女声，把谁放在第一呈献给你呢?这让我们费了不少神。考量再三，我们决定还是选琳达．埃德演唱的《鬼医》主题曲。无疑，此歌的感染力之强，每一次听，都叫人凝神屏患。
琳达．埃德在美国歌坛的地位还没有抵达天皇级数，但她的实力却是公认的超一流。唱功之高超，歌路之宽广被认为是芭芭拉．史翠珊第二。琳达的歌声介乎美声女高音与流行唱腔之间，最拿手的是百老汇舞台剧中的女主角，但其演绎的诸多爵士、民谣、流行甚至摇滚曲目亦有超常水准，且每张唱片几乎都由专属制作人 frankwildhom把关，完美效果将其表现力极强的歌喉一览无遗。
《鬼医》是令琳达一举成名的百老汇剧目，她在其中一人兼演两角，全剧录音由于歌靓且效果出色，老早就是发烧友试音的经典，乃至琳达以后推出的唱片都难以企及。从选出的此首“once upon a dream”去听，琳达的音色之美足以叫人呼吸停止，其背后的弦乐团伴奏亦绵峦如丝，录音的舞台空间感，口型比例几乎无可挑剔，要认识琳达．埃德就从这张美到杀死人的《鬼医》开始吧!
by Steve HueyLinda Eder was perhaps the most popular new interpreter of theatrical songs to emerge during the '90s. A disciple of Barbra Streisand early on, Eder gradually forged her own vocal style, and branched out from show tunes to include pop standards, light swing, and adult contemporary balladry in her repertoire. As a stage actress, Eder worked primarily with her husband, composer Frank Wildhorn, who often designed his material specifically for her (and produced her recordings as well). It was Wildhorn's musical adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde that first catapulted Eder to stardom, and she continued to rely on his pen for a good portion of her recorded output, though her albums of the new millennium increasingly broadened her comfort zone.Eder was born February 3, 1961, in Tucson, AZ, just two months after her parents emigrated to the United States. Her mother was Norwegian, and her father was an Austrian pastry chef who eventually settled the family in the small northern town of Brainerd, MN, where Linda spent the vast majority of her childhood. She was first inspired to try her hand at singing by Judy Garland's performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," and at 16, she won a local beauty pageant in part by performing an original composition. Teaming with pianist Paul Todd, a high-school classmate, Eder began performing locally, making her first professional appearance at the Brainerd Holiday Inn in 1981. After graduation, the two took their nightclub act on the road, playing cabarets, cocktail lounges, and supper clubs around the country as Paul & Linda.Todd and Eder eventually split, and she began working with pianist Jeremy Roberts in his place. In 1988, Eder caught her first big break when she successfully auditioned for the TV talent show Star Search. She went on to win the competition 12 weeks in a row, which brought her to the attention of composer Frank Wildhorn, who had recently co-written Whitney Houston's number one hit "Where Do Broken Hearts Go." Wildhorn had been working on a musical version of Robert Louis Stevenson's legendary Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde story for quite some time, and securing Eder's services gave the project a whole new life. Cast in the role of Lucy, a prostitute and nightclub singer, Eder soon developed a romantic relationship with Wildhorn as well.The first version of Jekyll and Hyde premiered in Houston in 1990, and an album of musical highlights was released the same year in hopes of stimulating interest in the show. In the meantime, Eder recorded her self-titled debut album, which was released by RCA in 1991. The following year, Wildhorn and Eder issued an early version of another musical, The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was initially constructed as a showcase for Eder and her Streisand-style vocal dramatics. The song "You Are My Home," recorded as a duet between Eder and Peabo Bryson, was a minor hit on the adult contemporary charts. Eder's next proper solo album was 1994's And So Much More, on which Wildhorn had a hand in composing the majority of the material. During the same period, Wildhorn began work on a musical adaptation of Svengali, which naturally focused on Eder.Jekyll and Hyde embarked on a national tour in 1994, often to negative reviews and positive box office receipts. In 1995, having become a word-of-mouth hit, Jekyll and Hyde was re-recorded in a more complete form; the following year, Eder embarked on her first national concert tour as a solo artist. In 1997, after undergoing substantial revisions, Jekyll and Hyde finally made its long-awaited Broadway premiere, by which time Eder's cult following had blossomed into full-fledged stardom. She signed to Atlantic Records that year and released It's Time, her most commercially successful album to date, which showed her coming into her own as a distinctive vocal stylist. Wildhorn wrote or co-wrote most of the material again, sprinkling in a few songs from Jekyll and Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and a new work in progress, The Civil War. After a lengthy courtship, Eder and Wildhorn finally married in 1998.Eder's next album, It's No Secret Anymore, was released in 1999, and again concentrated mostly on Wildhorn material, with selections from the musical work-in-progress Havana (another Eder vehicle) and a lullaby for the couple's newborn child. Eder's first holiday album, Christmas Stays the Same, appeared in 2000. She returned in 2002 with Gold, a less traditional, more guitar-based set of contemporary pop that featured covers of songs by the Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Boz Scaggs, and Dobie Gray. Still, Wildhorn material dominated the record, including the well-received title track, which was to be a cornerstone of the new, unfinished musical Camille Claudel. "Gold" also appeared on Eder's follow-up album, 2003's Broadway My Way, an album of show tune standards that backed away from the more contemporary touches of its predecessor.