Name:  Linda Starr

Your business name:  Digital Music Design

Web site: www.digitalmusicdesign.com

How you help your clients: My software--The Music Masters Series-- helps them be able to study and rehearse chamber music in an interactive, virtual environment.

The most amazing thing about you:  I, along with creator and partner and husband Gary, was able to take a traditional music background--classically trained and educated--and find a fun and useful way to incorporate modern technology to the benefit of music students, teachers, and performers.

Your typical day looks like this: Most of my days are spent on the computer and focused on marketing and promotion.

Favorite celebrity:  Rosalind Russell--I saw "Auntie Mame" at age 13 and it became my inspiration for how life should be lived ("Life is a banquet--and most poor suckers are starving to death." and the theme of tolerance).

Different careers you've had in your life:  Music teacher, professional musician (even played for P.O.T.U.S.), Composer (two musicals, words and music, performed in Los Angeles theatres), Businesswoman (MCA Records 1982-1995), Politial candidate (1998), Internet entrepreneur, actress (first residuals:  2001), and Cat Butler.

Favorite anecdote:  Much admired (and emulated) by Mozart, composer/organist at the court of Versailles JOHANN SCHOBERT (c.1740-1767) picked mushrooms with his family in 1767 in a village near Paris. They took the mushrooms to a restaurant and asked the chef to cook them. This chef refused, as did another and yet another, all saying the mushrooms were deadly. The overconfident 
composer -- egged on by a doctor and friend who fancied himself an "expert" -- then cooked them himself. Schobert, his wife, and all but one of his children died a slow and agonizing death, undiscovered until a week or so later.