Linda Raine, Canadian singer/songwriter, first learned to appreciate music as a child growing up within a family of musicians who encouraged and cultivated her early interest. At age 13, Raine originally from the Toronto area, moved to Nova Scotia and it was there that she felt that she had really come home as she immediately recognized that music was as much a part of daily life on the East Coast, as the Atlantic Ocean that surrounds it.With her mother as her first teacher, she started playing guitar at the age of 14 and wrote her first song shortly thereafter. Encouraged by her family, friends and musical peers, she continued to develop her singing and songwriting talents by performing wherever and whenever she could. She recorded her first original song with Jimmy Flynn, a well known entertainer from Atlantic Canada and who still performs throughout the Country today. They performed the song before large audiences and it was the overwhelming audience reaction together with the encouraging words of Flynn that convinced Raine to take her talent more seriously.Raine's family eventually returned to Ontario and in 1999 she met Kirk Holloway, an accomplished drummer who played with many well known musicians such as Gino Scarpelli (Goddo) and members of Big Brother and the Holding Company. Holloway introduced her to Mark Bradley and Donny Williams (all former members of the band Obsidian who had backed bands such as Goddo and Harlequin in the early 90s). In 2003, Holloway and Bradley asked Raine to join their band as lead vocalist and together with then band members Dennis Robinson and Andrew Minialoff, Diamond and The RUFF was formed. Existing band members Donny Williams and Chris Spick joined the band in 2006. Diamond and The RUFF currently performs at various clubs throughout Ontario doing classic rock covers and has increasingly incorporated more and more of Raine's original songs into their performances.Through her success on Fame Games (www.meermusic.com), Linda Raine was offered and has entered into a Licensing Agreement with WacBiz.With Roberto Philipp (Umana Music) as her producer, Raine is currently completing her CD "Rise" and has completed recording a demo containing three songs that embrace music with expressions of unconditional love, undeniable pain and immeasurable hope.{}
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