Linda Bell Viera Caballero (born March 9, 1969), known professionally as La India, is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter of salsa, house music and Latin pop.
Salsa bandleader Eddie Palmieri happened to visit the studio, and was impressed with Caballero when he heard her singing.
[9] In 1994 La India, together with Louie Vega, recorded the house-music single "Love and Happiness" (Yemaya y Ochún), which paid tribute to Santería (a syncretic religion based in the Caribbean).
Sergio George produced La India's 1994 album Dicen Que Soy, a 2× gold-certified Billboard hit that added to her legend in the Latin-American music realm.
[3] The album also included her cover of Cuba’s Adalberto Alvarez Y Su Son’s hit song "Vivir Lo Nuestro[10]," featuring a duet with Marc Anthony.
[4] In 1996, La India worked with Tito Puente on Jazzin, an English-language album of swing classics with a Latin twist, on RMM Records.
That same year she contributed the song "Banderas" to the album titled Voces Unidas (United Voices), a multi-artist tribute to the 1996 Summer Olympics.
In 1997, La India recorded "Sobre el Fuego" (Over the Fire) with Puerto Rican salsa singer Kevin Ceballo as backup vocalist.
[4] On February 5, 2000, a full-page ad in Billboard Magazine congratulated La India for her second Grammy Award nomination.
In 2011, La India released a new house track titled "Tacalacateo," on which she worked with Italian DJ Peppe Citarella.
[13] In 2014, La India once again signed with the record label Top Stop Music, also joining the Salsa Giants project with Sergio George.
La India released her tenth studio salsa album "Intensamente Con Canciones de Juan Gabriel" on Top Stop Music in 2015.
With this song, La India became the Latino woman with the most-ever number ones, a record previously held by Gloria Estefan.
[14] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked La India at number 113 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.