Linda Perry Explains How Upcoming 4 Non Blondes Reunion Came to Be After 30 Years: 'I've Told the Universe I Want This'

Mar. 15, 2025

Wondering what’s up with ’90s rockers4 Non Blondes? They’re reuniting!

The group, who found fame with the hit “What’s Up?” in the early 1990s, then disbanded after just one album, will perform together for just the second time since their split at theBottleRock Napa Valleymusic festival in California in May.

In a new episode ofThe Allison Hagendorf Show, which PEOPLE is exclusively premiering, singerLinda Perryexplains just how the stars aligned for 4 Non Blondes to take the stage together once again.

“It’s not [the right time] and I don’t know when it would [be]. It’s more like, honestly, it’s the right time in my head. It’s the right time in my heart,” she said. “I’ve been kind of putting that energy out, because I want 2025 to be my year. I want to own this year because I feel like I’ve been planting seeds all over the place and I’m watching my little trees grow.”

Linda Perry attends “Linda Perry: Let It Die Here” Premiere - 2024 Tribeca Festival at Spring Studios on June 06, 2024 in New York City.Theo Wargo/Getty

Theo Wargo/Getty

Perry left the group in 1994, and the rockers have only played together once in the last 30 years, at a 2014 fundraiser for the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center.

4 Non Blondes (v.l. Dawn Richardson, Louis Metoyer, Linda Perry, Christa Hillhouse) on 18.07.1993 in Germany.Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty

Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty

The Grammy-nominated musician even teased that there may be some new releases on the horizon, as she considers her work “all or nothing.”

“I’ve been already brewing… There’s a second 4 Non Blondes record that [was] recorded. I’ll leave it there,” she said. “It was pretty decent. [But] I just couldn’t do it. My heart couldn’t do it. I was in a really bad space during that time, because my feelings get hurt so easily. And so I left the band because my feelings just kept getting hurt and I didn’t know how to deal with it.”

Perry previously opened up to PEOPLE in June about how shestruggled amid the band’s fame, and said she and her former bandmates “don’t talk much at all.” She also said that “walking away from all of it was no big deal.”

Linda Perry performs with 4 Non Blondes at the Starry Plough in Berkeley, CA on November 9, 1990.Clayton Call/Redferns

Clayton Call/Redferns

“I had a hard time in the band; not because of them, because I wasn’t clear on the kind of music I wanted to do yet,” she said. “I was just really finding myself.”

The BottleRock Napa Valley music festival will take place from May 23-25.

source: people.com