The beginning
Linda Engström was born on May 20tieth, year 1978 in Västerås, Sweden. She grew up in the small industrial town of Fagersta with her mother, father and elder sister. Already in preschool Linda had her future mapped out, well aware of what she wanted to be when growing up, there was never any doubt in her mind, her greatest desire in life was to become a singer and songwriter. Not once did she waver or drift away from her mission to accomplish the dream she had sown as a little girl. Thus Linda spent the rest of her years in elementary school singing, learning to play a few musical instruments and of course performing whenever the chance arose.

When Linda turned 16 she moved to Avesta, another small town in Sweden, to indulge herself in music studies, in the dominating art school in town. A move she wouldn’t regret. Up until this point she had very little knowledge, if any at all, of the structure of music, which she now thankfully encountered on a regular basis. It was during these years of her blooming youth that Linda started to write lyrics and compose music of her own.

Back home
Linda returned to Sweden in 1999, that’s when her song writing really kicked off. Whilst waiting tables at the local pubs and scrubbing floors her creativity was running wild, she wrote song after song. Linda intended to head out on the road again as soon as she had earned enough cash for a ticket, but found herself in a minor dilemma. As much as she longed for seeing new countries, she couldn’t figure out how she would keep her song writing alive on the road, since she was always using a piano to compose music. This encouraged Linda to learn how to get along with a guitar; she started off with a few chords and bought herself a little blue guitar as soon as she had left the cold winds of Sweden behind once again.

Photo: Suzanne Gullberg

The turning point
At the end of year 2000 she was back in Sweden, only to find herself hotfooting it back to Malaysia six months later. This time Linda stayed for a whole year, a year that would consequently change her life forever. A series of life altering events took place, one of which the most important, was the fact that she found herself pregnant; this dramatically changed her view of the world. She went back to Sweden five months pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy in the summer of 2002.

Because of this sudden turning point in Linda’s life, she put the music aside for a few years. It wasn’t until the year of 2004 that she started to record a demo (her second) with her good friend from music school, Nicklas Hovberg. This brought back the urge to make music once again, this time her songs were characterized by a deeper level of growth and maturity.