Folk singer Linda Perhacs has been reported missing months after being released from a residential care facility.
Perhacs’ friend Mark McNeill shared a plea for help via Instagram on Monday, July 27, writing, “Linda Perhacs our dear friend and legendary singer-songwriter was discharged from a residential care facility roughly eight months ago under the supervision of her legal guardian.”
McNeill claimed that Perhacs’ family members have been unable to get in contact together with her.
“Since then, friends and longtime collaborators have been unable to succeed in her and repeated attempts to contact her guardian have reportedly gone unanswered,” he continued.
Within the social media post, McNeill urged his followers to succeed in out to Perhacs’ former manager Laurel Stearns via email with any “verified information regarding Linda’s whereabouts or current technique of contact.”
McNeill’s post was jointly shared by Stearns, Jessica Hundley, who directed the music video for Perhacs’ song “Prisms of Glass,” and musician Julia Holter.
Stearns broke her silence about her former client’s disappearance in an announcement to Entertainment Weekly, claiming “concern is growing” amongst Perhacs’ close friends, collaborators and the music community.
In line with Stearns, “quite a few friends and longtime collaborators report they’ve been unable to ascertain direct contact” with Perhacs since she was discharged.
“Repeated attempts to speak together with her guardian have also, they are saying, gone unanswered,” she added.
Perhacs, 83, is best known for her debut album, Parallelograms, which was released in 1970.
Despite its low sales, the album was rediscovered three many years later and was reissued quite a few times as a result of growing demand throughout the Recent Weird America movement.
Perhacs went on to release The Soul of All Natural Things in 2014, followed by her third studio album, I’m a Harmony, three years later.