Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linda Perry performs with 4 Non Blondes during the 2025 Sea.Hear.Now Music Festival in Asbury Park, N.J. (photo: Astrida ...

Christina Aguilera almost didn't get to sing one of her biggest hits, and the reason is as flattering as it is a lesson that everyone is going through something. While appearing on TheZach Sang Show, ...

Linda Perry has spent most of her career behind the curtain — and she's built an empire there. She wrote "Beautiful" and ...

When Linda Perry wrote ‘Beautiful,’ she never imagined it would become a defining anthem for insecurity and self-acceptance sung by a mainstream pop princess. The song’s journey from her private ...

"Beautiful" is now one of Christina Aguilera's signature songs, but songwriter Linda Perry originally didn't want to give it to the singer who'd broken into pop music with her 1999 hit single "Genie ...

When Linda Perry recorded her version of "Beautiful," the 2002 hit she wrote and gave to Christina Aguilera, she thought she was just revisiting an old song. As she dug into the grooves of that ode to ...

When Linda Perry wrote ‘Beautiful,’ she never imagined it would become a defining anthem for insecurity and self-acceptance sung by a mainstream pop princess. The song’s journey from her private ...

Songwriter Linda Perry recently said she didn't want to give "Beautiful" to Christina Aguilera at first. Perry thought the "Dirrty" singer was too pretty. It took the artist hearing Aguilera's take on ...

Linda Perry initially thought Christina Aguilera was too "hot" to record Beautiful. The 45-year-old pop idol went on to win a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the iconic noughties tune ...