She performed with Pharoah Sanders in the mid-1960s; late in 1966 she married Sonny Sharrock and began using the spelling Lynda professionally.
One of her best-known performances is on the 1969 Sonny Sharrock album Black Woman, released on Vortex Records.
She worked with ensembles such as the Pat Brothers, Red Sun, Zenit, and AM4 in the 1980s, and with Harry Pepl in 1992.
After suffering a stroke in 2009 which left her partially disabled and aphasic, she briefly withdrew from the scene before returning in 2012.
Since then she has appeared and recorded in France, Austria, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Slovenia, with various ensembles under the Linda Sharrock Network label.