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Jul 5, 2024 · Linda Thompson lost her ability to sing to spasmodic dysphonia, but a new album featuring guests like Rufus Wainwright brings her songs to life.
Jun 20, 2024 · Linda Thompson, limber at 76, didn’t want to give up on music. “Up until my 60s, I could still sing in the studio, at least on good days,” she said. For her new album, other singers serve as ...
Apr 9, 2024 · Today, English folk-rock icon Linda Thompson announces her first new album in over ten years, Proxy Music, set for release on June 21st via StorySound Records. The 11-track collection introduces a unique concept, as Thompson’s new original songs are brought to life and performed by a handpicked ensemble of her closest family, friends and ...
Jul 11, 2024 · Renowned Scottish folk-rock singer Linda Thompson, 77 next month, doesn’t sing a note because she can’t; the condition that she has lived with for more than 40 years, spasmodic dysphonia,...
Jun 20, 2024 · For years, the singer Linda Thompson faced a problem that, for someone in her line of work, seemed insurmountable. Slowly over time, and then suddenly all at once, she lost the ability to hold a note surely enough to sustain even the simplest tune.
Linda Thompson (née Pettifer, born 23 August 1947) is an English singer-songwriter. Thompson is one of the most recognised names and voices in the British folk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s, in collaboration with fellow British folk rock musician, guitarist Richard Thompson, to whom she was married for ten years, and later as a solo artist.
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Jan 1, 2008 · So it couldn’t have been more surprising when a second Linda Thompson album, Fashionably Late, appeared in 2002. New vocal treatments allowed her to sing again; she reentered the studio with the collaborative encouragement of her two children, Teddy and Kamilla, both musicians in their own right.