![]() ![]() And I’m in this band that I didn’t honestly 100 percent like. I’m hearing all these sexual sounds happening down the hallway, and my dog is jumping up and down barking, fleas all over the place. It was right after the Reagan years, and I felt the politics were just insane, what was going on. I started living with Christa, the bass player, and one day she was in her room having sex with her girlfriend and I had just gotten a puppy. Then this band 4 Non Blondes asked me if I wanted to be in it. I moved to San Francisco and was writing songs by myself. Image Credit: Norman Ng/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images She took a break in a relentlessly crammed schedule to look back at the 15 songs and productions that shaped her career and life. She’s also been curating charity events for Haitian relief and victims of last year’s California wildfires. Perry, 53, is currently wrapping up an album with Natasha Bedingfield. This year, Perry is up for a Grammy in the Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) category for her work on albums by teenaged singer Willa Amai and rocker Dorothy, as well as for the soundtrack to Served Like A Girl, a documentary about female military veterans that includes Perry-helmed songs by Pink, Aguilera and others. Since becoming famous as a member of 4 Non Blondes in the late Eighties, Perry not only survived one-hit-wonder status in the ’90s with “What’s Up” but went on to remake herself as an A-list songwriter and producer, working with a diverse group of acts from Miley Cyrus to Weezer. Pop tunesmith is only one of Perry’s many careers. ![]() But maybe that’s why it makes me interesting.” It’s super funny that I got into this whole pop world, because it’s not where I live. ![]() ![]() “I don’t even know how I got in there, because my true self is dark rock & roll. No one is more surprised than Linda Perry when one of the hit pop songs she’s written, whether it’s Pink’s “Get the Party Started” or Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful,” roars out of a radio or in a club. ![]()
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