Fabulous entertainer Linda Gentille performs this benefit fundraiser. A combination of fabulous holiday classics and your favorite Broadway hits. Linda is known for her backwards top 10 medley where she takes audience requests.
Linda is an animal rescuer as well as entertainer and frequently does concerts to benefit worthy causes. All proceeds from this concert will benefit Happily Efur After. A place where abused and abandoned animals find loving homes. HEA also educates the public on TNR and helps… Show more families find low cost spay/neuter clinics for their pets. We believe every animal should live a healthy life and live Happily Efur After!!!
Linda Gentille dazzles audiences around the world with her beauty, charisma and musical virtuosity. She is one of the premier interpreters of Chinese classical music. Music has always been in the family for centuries. Linda's great grandmother, Anna Louise Deal was one of America's first female published ragtime composers. She wrote numerous ragtime compositions including " Come to Chicago" for the World Fair in 1933. Growing up in Pacific Palisades, California, Linda began her musical studies taking classes with her Father at Roger Williams' studio in Los Angeles. Her immediate grasp of complex and advanced music, her inherent technique, and her incredible ability to quickly and accurately memorize lengthy musical scores, soon endeared Linda to even her most senior instructors. After advancing quickly through the Roger Williams program, Linda then studied under Julliard trained Richard Kohfeld of Santa Monica and won numerous piano awards and accolades as a young pianist.
Linda's unique and incredibly entertaining concert performances continuously have her audiences demanding return engagements year after year. During her concert career, Linda has performed over 1000 concerts worldwide. One of the many highlights of her career was a performance at The White House Correspondents' Dinner during President Ronald Reagan's administration.
Recently Linda completed her 11th concert tour of China where she holds the world record, according to the Chinese Ministry of Culture, for performing more concerts (over 105 to date) in China than any other Artisttruly an incredible achievement and the envy of the international entertainment industry as China becomes an ever increasing destination of strong interest for entertainers from all corners of the globe. As Linda does in many other foreign countries, in China she conducts her press conferences, and communicates with and sings for her audiences in their own language, an additional talent that further ingratiates Linda to her huge international following. In all, Linda speaks eight foreign languages, including Mandarin.
Linda has recorded over a dozen CD's and DVD's and successfully runs her own production company, Peacemaker Productions, producing concerts and student drug prevention assemblies. Her CD's enjoy worldwide popularity, and she has sold over 5 million copies in China alone. Linda is a great inspiration for thousands of students across the country and around the world where she has performed hundreds of student assembly performances during her career. In fact, Linda, when overseas, often donates her time to perform for sick and underprivileged children.
Linda is available for concerts worldwide. Her newest show, The American Piano Show, is an entertaining and educational tribute to American's greatest composers. In addition to this show, Linda performs a more modern show called "Great Balls of Fire: Legends of the Piano" which tributes great piano legends of the last 50 years. Linda currently tours 8 months a year on land and on luxury cruise liners.
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