90s rocker Linda Perry was recently photographed during a public outing in California.
The What’s Up singer wore her signature hat and sunglasses while walking around Los Angeles’ Studio City on Sunday, August 11.
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She wore a pair of jeans rolled up to her ankles, a long-sleeved purple striped t-shirt, and a pair of dark Converse sneakers with white socks peeking out above them.
Linda, who has written and produced songs for artists including Pink and Gwen Stefani, was on the phone as she kept a relatively low profile.
Linda was the lead singer of 4 Non Blondes, the American rock band initially also composed of bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall and drummer Wanda Day.
Before the group’s first and only album, Bigger, Better, Faster, More! was released in October 1992, Dawn Richardson replaced Wanda on drums and Roger Rocha took Shaunna’s place on guitar.
Linda wrote the song’s most popular single, What’s Up, which was released as the album’s second single in March 1993.
The track reached number one in 10 countries, earning the album widespread success as it spent 59 weeks on the Billboard 200 and sold 1.5 million copies in the United States and six million worldwide.
Linda reflected on her early career in an interview with People, ahead of the release of her documentary, Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, in June this year.
She admitted that she had a “difficult time” on 4 Non Blondes because “I still wasn’t sure what kind of music I wanted to make.”
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Although What’s Up became an instant success, the rocky road to its release caused tensions within the band.
After the band’s record company made them record a version that Linda didn’t like, she rebelled against them and re-recorded What’s Up as her original demo, which was used as the final version of the album.
“I knew from then on, ‘You’re going to have to constantly survive here if you want to be alive.
“I had a hard time in the band,” she continued. “Not because of them, because I still wasn’t sure what kind of music I wanted to make.
“I was really discovering myself,” she told the publication, adding that none of her original bandmates “talked anymore.”
In June, it was revealed that Linda, 59, underwent a double mastectomy in 2021 after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
My doctor basically said the cancer I had was the type she finds in people who have six months to maybe two years to live.
Linda Perry
In her documentary, the singer explained that she realized she had cancer while preparing for elective breast reduction surgery.
After the tissue removed during surgery underwent a routine pathology examination, doctors discovered that Linda had triple negative breast cancer.
“My doctor basically said the cancer I had was the type she finds in people who have six months to maybe two years to live,” Linda said.
Let It Die Here, directed by Don Hardy, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on June 6.
In the film, Linda also revealed that she and ex-wife Sara Gilbert remain “best friends” after their divorce.
Linda met The Conners actress at dinner in 2011 and got married in Malibu in 2014.
Sara filed for divorce from Linda in December 2019, citing “irreconcilable differences”, with the date of separation listed as August 2019.
Despite the split, Linda and Sara remain committed co-parents to their nine-year-old son Rhodes.
“We will never stop being a family,” Linda told People in June, discussing her relationship with Sara. “It doesn’t feel like a big separation because we’re always together.”
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