LINDA ROSSI (TROTTA) was influenced by her father’s beautiful voice, and love of music. Her earliest piano teacher was her ‘Uncle Vince’ who was a club musician and a long-time staple at Disneyland’s Golden Horseshoe Saloon. Vocal tutoring took place in the church balcony, and expanded to private operatic study with Primo Lino Puccinelli in Pasadena, California. A Liberal Arts education and advanced music theory followed. The highlight of her formal training came when she invested several years studying with the famed Tom Blaylock in Portland, Oregon.

Linda has been singing professionally since 1980 with many touring bands, culminating in the eight-piece big band Linda Trotta and Out of the Blue, which was a club favorite and regular at Waterfront events for several years during the 1990s. She has shared stages with local artists such as Duffy Bishop, Robbie Laws, Paulette, and many others.

Her passion now is the envelope-pushing ‘New Thought’ R&B band Linda Rossi and Friends with LaRhonda Steele, Ken Brewer, Don Shultz, and Jim Solberg. A life-long student of spirituality, she currently performs in New Thought Churches, most notably the Portland Center for Spiritual Living (PCSL) where she is Music Director. Recordings include “Upside of the Blues” and “Rough Cuts.”