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

Wondering what’s up with ’90s rockers 4 Non Blondes? They’re getting back together!

The group that became famous with the hit “What’s Up?” in the early 1990s and then broke up after just one album, will perform together for only the second time since their split at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival in California in May.

In the new episode of the series Show Allison Hagendorfwhich PEOPLE is premiering exclusively, singer Linda Perry explains how the stars agreed to have the 4 non-blondes take the stage together again.

“It’s not [the right time] and I don’t know when it would [be]. It’s more, honestly, in my head the right time. It’s the right moment in my heart,” she said. “I was somehow wasting that energy, because I want 2025 to be my year. I want to be an owner this year because I feel like I’ve planted seeds everywhere and I’m watching my little trees grow.”

Linda Perry at the premiere of “Linda Perry: Let It Die Here” – 2024 Tribeca Festival at Spring Studios on June 6, 2024 in New York City.

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Perry, 59, co-founded 4 Non Blondes in San Francisco in the late 1980s with bassist Christa Hillhouse, guitarist Shaunna Hall and drummer Wanda Day (Day was later replaced by Dawn Richardson, while Roger Rocha took Hall’s place). Their first and only album, Bigger, better, faster, more!was released in 1992, and contained the enduring hit “What’s Up?”

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

“We got this offer [for BottleRock]… and I’m like, ‘Okay, I knew this was coming.’ I want this to happen. I told the universe that I wanted this to happen,” she told Hagendorf. “And so it comes. So I called the band, one by one. I said, ‘Hey, how do you feel about this?’ And mind you, we don’t talk. But they were excited, so I’m going to go hang out with them in San Francisco, practice and just screw around. I don’t really have a plan, but just see how it feels.”

4 Non Blondes (vl Dawn Richardson, Louis Metoyer, Linda Perry, Christa Hillhouse) 18.07.1993 in Germany.

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

“I’ve been cooking before… There’s another 4 Non Blondes record that means 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 place during that time, because my feelings get hurt so easily. And so I left the band because my feelings were hurt and I didn’t know how to deal with it.”

Perry previously opened up to PEOPLE in June about her struggles amid the band’s fame and said she and her former bandmates “don’t talk much at all.” She also said that “it’s not a big deal to walk away from all that.”

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Linda Perry performing with the 4 Non Blondes at the Starry Plow in Berkeley, CA on November 9, 1990.

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“It was hard for me in the band; not because of them, because I was not yet clear about the kind of music I wanted to do,” she said. “I was just really finding myself.”

After leaving 4 Non Blondes, Perry released a solo album In flight 1996. Her second solo album, After hoursit came three years later, and by the early 2000s she had established herself as a hitmaker for stars like Pink, Christina Aguilera and Gwen Stefani.

The BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival will take place May 23-25.

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