Lyndell sang in gospel churches as a child; though she was white, she sang in both white and black churches, and eventually began singing with R&B groups as a teenager.
[1] In the 1960s she sang as a support act with James Brown and Ike & Tina Turner, and in 1967 Atlanta disc jockey Dave Crawford introduced her to Stax Records producers Isaac Hayes and David Porter.
In 1968 she did a second session, cutting the tune "What a Man"; this song reached No.
[2] In response to the release of her single, she received threats from white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, and retired from performance soon after.
Linda recorded songs at Fuller Studios in Tampa, Florida, in the sixties with Gene Middleton and the Sole Survivors.