UPDATE: Linda Perhacs has been “located and is safe,” according to her former manager Laurel Sterns. Read more here.
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The psychedelic folk singer and cult legend Linda Perhacs, 82, has been reported missing. A post shared on Instagram by Perhacs’ former manager Laurel Stearns, DubLab co-founder Mark “Frosty” McNeill, and Perhacs collaborators Jessica Hundley and Julia Holter reads:
𝓛𝓘𝓝𝓓𝓐 𝓟𝓔𝓡𝓗𝓐𝓒𝓢 𝓘𝓢 𝓜𝓘𝓢𝓢𝓘𝓝𝓖 / 𝓦𝓔 𝓝𝓔𝓔𝓓 𝓨𝓞𝓤𝓡 𝓗𝓔𝓛𝓟!
Linda Perhacs our dear friend and legendary singer-songwriter was discharged from a residential care facility approximately eight months ago under the supervision of her legal guardian. Since then, friends and longtime collaborators have been unable to reach her and repeated attempts to contact her guardian have reportedly gone unanswered. Please help us locate Linda to ensure her wellbeing.
If you have verified information regarding Linda’s whereabouts or current means of contact, please reach out to:
Laurel Stearns
Former Manager of Linda Perhacs
LSS Mgmt/Primary Wave
EMAIL: lstearns@primarywave.com
Stearns told Pitchfork that she filed a missing persons report with the Los Angeles Police Department on June 6. According to Pitchfork’s Nina Corcoran, “The police reportedly investigated, but could not relay Perhacs’ status to Stearns or any other of Perhacs’ friends because they’re not legally tied to the musician, be it as family members or a caregiver with power of attorney.”
Linda Perhacs released her debut album, Parallelograms, in 1970, but retired from music due to the lack of the album’s success. It became rediscovered in the mid 2000s after it became recognized as influential on the era’s freak folk movement and was sampled by the likes of Daft Punk and Prefuse 73, and Linda finally returned to music with the 2014 album The Soul of All Natural Things, released on Sufjan Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty label. In 2017, she released her third album, I’m A Harmony, made with Julia Holter, Devendra Banhart, Mark Pritchard, and members of Wilco.
Read more about Parallelograms in our list of 12 essential, trailblazing ’60s/’70s folk albums by women by Amy Geiger.