Hollie was born to a musically talented Mother, who played piano and sang live on her own radio show and with a brother who played guitar and sang professionally since age 15 and brought her into his band as her first professional experience.
By age 18 she was working full time as a professional keyboard player and lead singer/songwriter. Throughout her 30+ years in the music business she performed throughout 11 western states and Alaska working with a variety of acts from solo piano/vocals to full bands. As a true "on the road" musician playing 300 dates a year, she made her sole-living working in many styles of bands and acts. This crazy life lead her to write her humorous memoir: I’m Not a Groupie! I’m IN the Band! Which can be purchased at online retailers everywhere. Click HERE to purchase. (Free on some digital services like Kindle Prime).
Hollie is fortunate to have a solid circle of professional musicians supporting her, both locally and around the world taking advantage of the digital studio and online age where sharing tracks through the internet allows a high level of production not found in the past. Hollie's primary focus is writing and performing all original music. While a Blues Rock mix is what she considers her true genre, her creativity branches out into other genres and she releases albums as she goes along.
In 2018 she has now organized a band with a goal of playing her originals and being back in front of a live audience wherever that gig may land in her local area.
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Hollie is part of Kompoz, an online community of musicians where they use their own recording studios to provide tracks for each others originals music. Here is a sample of Hollie playing piano and/or organ on different styles of music.
www.Kompoz.com |
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BEHIND THE MUSIC MOCKUMENTARY SHORT
Using real life past photos from the road and on camera "interview", here is a fake mockumentary about Hollie's fictitious 1980's group THE DRIPPY KITTIES, this was a DVD bonus piece for a short film Hollie wrote and directed and composed an original song for. Hollie recorded this alone on a Flip camera and edited it. Thanks to friend Tim Feeney for the voice over. Strictly on here for fun. :) |
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