Linda Strawberry

Linda Strawberry
Background information
Birth name Linda Michelle Rowberry
Born (1981-09-09) September 9, 1981
Genres Alternative rock, indie rock, dream pop
Occupation(s) Director, Editor, Colorist, Musician
Instruments Keyboard, vocals, guitar, bass
Years active 2000–present
Labels Strawberry Label
Associated acts Smashing Pumpkins, Djali Zwan, Spirits in the Sky, The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, The Shadow Bureau, Bon Harris, Billy Corgan
Website www.lindastrawberry.com

Linda Strawberry is the nom de plume of a Los Angeles artist, director, editor and musician, best known as Billy Corgan's collaborator and touring member for the TheFutureEmbrace tour.

Career

Initially working under her birth name Linda Rowberry, Strawberry collaborated with Especially For Youth on I Know My Redeemer Lives (2000) and with David Coverdale on Into the Light (2001)

She spent some time working as a recording engineer, most notably working on Sarah Mclachlan Afterglow (2002) which as since sold over 4 million copies. [1] [2]

Strawberry was signed to Chrysalis Records with a publishing development deal from 2004 to 2006. She performed with Djali Zwan (the second, acoustic incarnation of Corgan's Zwan project), appearing on the soundtrack to the movie Spun; she is the lead singer on the version of "Love to Love" from that soundtrack.

She started her own label called Lovely Chaos Records, on which she released The Lost Record EP in August 2007, and Lip Distortion in 2009.

She has appeared on The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex album Life Begins Again, and on the soundtrack of 2002 movie Spun as well acting as an engineer on Sarah McLachlan's latest record. She has worked with Bjorn Thorsrud, Alan Moulder, Bon Harris. She sang a duet with David Coverdale on his 2001 solo record "Into the Light". She appeared with Billy Corgan on the very last Bozo the Clown Show. She was also active as a production assistant to the Zwan project.[3][4]

In March 2008 Strawberry was chosen to appear in a national Peta2 "Fur Is Dead" campaign.[5]

August 2009 Strawberry joined Billy Corgan, Dave Navarro, Mark Tulin, Mike Byrne, Kerry Brown, Mark Weitz, Ysanne Spevack, and Kevin Dippold to do a tour under the band name Spirits in the Sky.[6]

In 2011 she sang a duet with Curt Smith from Tears for Fears for a song by The Shadow Bureau titled "Don't Give Yourself Away", and was responsible for some of the artwork for Peter Murphy's video of "I Spit Roses."[7]

Linda Strawberry co-wrote and produced a song "Dancing in the Sunshine" for Disney television show Phineas and Ferb for the episode "Just My Luck". [8]

In 2012 she began working as a video director, editor, and colorist. Some of her work includes Peter Murphy "I Spit Roses" Illustrator, Smashing Pumpkins "Run2Me" Director/Editor [9], and David J "Gentrification Blues" Director/Editor[10]. She is lead editor currently at Coloma Productions and has edited videos for Jessica Simpson Collection including her new Spring 2017 video. [11] She is credited for doing the color for Fullscreen shows "Hello, My name is Issa" and "Keeping Score".

Solo discography

Filmography

Music video director

2016

References

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