Legendary folk musician Linda Perhacs has been declared missing eight months after leaving a residential care facility.
On Monday, July 27, the singer's friend Mark McNeill took to Instagram to make a public call to find Perhacs.
"Linda Perhacs our dear friend and legendary singer-songwriter was discharged from a residential care facility approximately eight months ago under the supervision of her legal guardian," he penned in a collaborated Instagram post.
McNeill added, "Since then, friends and longtime collaborators have been unable to reach her and repeated attempts to contact her guardian have reportedly gone unanswered."
The online radio station co-founder concluded his post by asking his followers to reach out to Laurel Stearns, who was Perhacs' former manager, via email if they have "verified information regarding Linda's whereabouts or current means of contact".
"Please help us locate Linda to ensure her wellbeing," he wrote.
McNeill jointly shared the post with Stearns, Jessica Hundley, who directed the music video for Perhacs' track Prisms of Glass, and musician Julia Holter.
In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, Stearns highlighted concerns among Perhacs' close friends, collaborators and the music community regarding the renowned musician's whereabouts.
Stearns told the outlet that "numerous friends and longtime collaborators report they have been unable to establish direct contact" with Perhacs since she was discharged from the Los Angeles-area care facility.
"Repeated attempts to communicate with her guardian have also, they say, gone unanswered," she said.
About Linda Perhacs
Perhacs is best known for her debut album, Parallelograms, which was released in 1970 when the Los Angeles-native was working as a dental hygienist.
While the album failed to make much sound, it was rediscovered three decades later by record enthusiasts and reissued numerous times due to the growing popularity of the New Weird America movement and the internet.
Perhacs released her comeback album, The Soul of All Natural Things, in 2014, and her third studio album, I'm a Harmony, three years later.
She was discovered by Leonard Rosenman, the Oscar-winning composer of films like East of Eden, Barry Lyndon, and Rebel Without a Cause.
