Holly Knight
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New York, NY currently in Pacific Palisades, CA
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HOLLY KNIGHT is an accomplished songwriter, producer and musician.
She has written hits for some of the biggest artists in music. Her songs have won three Grammys for best vocal performance in the rock category. She was voted Best Songwriter in Rolling Stones' 11th annual poll, along with such luminaries as Phil Collins, Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen.
Holly has written an incredible string of hits, starting with Better Be Good To Me, Simply The Best, In Your Wildest Dreams/Tina Turner (Tina has cut nine of Holly's songs), Love Is A Battlefield, Invincible/Pat Benatar, Never/Heart, and Ragdoll/Aerosmith which is appears in the massively successful video game, Guitar Heroes/Aerosmith, Love Touch/Rod Stewart, The Warrior/Patty Smyth, featured in Guitar Heroes/ The 80s, Obsession (Animotion), Just Between You and Me/Lou Gramm (Foreigner), Change/John Waite, Baby Me/Chaka Khan, Hide Your Heart /Kiss and the list goes on.
Holly has collaborated with many other songwriters and recording artists over the years. Her own bands, Spider and Device both had top forty hits, while Device was on MTV's heavy-rotation playlist for four consecutive months.
She has sung and performed on many albums, including backup vocals for Tina Turner, Rod Stewart and Heart. Her songs have been featured in box-office smashes such as Thelma and Louise, Visionquest, Legend of Billie Jean, Mad Max-Beyond The Thunderdome, Stewart Little II, Thirteen Going On Thirty, What The Bleep, and hit TV shows such as Nip Tuck, The Singing Bee, American Idol, Oprah Winfrey, The Simpsons, Family Guy, 30 Rock and South Park.
In 2002, Holly produced and co-wrote the title theme song for the hugely popular cult TV show, Angel. She then went on to write and produce the title theme song for the CBS hit sitcom, Still Standing, which received the ASCAP award for recognition as one of the top TV music themes of 2003, as well as the same award again in 2004.
A New York City native, Holly started studying classical piano at age four, continuing her studies for ten years. By the time she reached her teens she was sneaking out of the house at night to see rock bands perform. ‘I loved the outrageous lifestyle and rebelliousness of rock and roll. The juxtapostion of classical and hard rock just seemed to work for me. At home, growing up I was exposed to all kinds of music. Broadway plays by Lerner and Lowe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, exotic music like Ravi Shankar and Ska from Jamaica, Greek Music, Irish and Italian crooners, just a potpourri of musical influences. At the same time, I discovered The Doors, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Zeppelin., Aerosmith, Queen, well from there I just went full throttle down the Rabbit Hole.’”
Holly signed her first record and publishing deal when she was twenty with well known songwriter/producer, Mike Chapman and Dreamland Records/Polygram, She cites Chapman as being her mentor and together they wrote a string of hits over a short period of time. Next, she signed a six year publishing deal with EMI Publishing,and after turning down a chance to resign a third deal with EMI, she decided it was time to publish herself. Her first company, Knightlife Music was very successful and in 2007 she sold half her catalogue for an undisclosed amount to a highly respected and elite independent publishing and marketing company called Primary Wave Music . She now co-owns her earlier catalogue with. Primary Wave whose function is to tastefully market her tunes .After Holly sold a portion of Knightlife Music, she formed a new publishing company, Good Knight Songs .
Recently Holly has written with or for Zander Bleck, Antonia Bennett, Cherie Currie, Rev Theory, Hawk Nelson, The Donnas, Porcelain Black, Otep, Sick Puppies, Hunter Valentine, Meatloaf, Paul Stanley, Leigh Nash, Less Than Jake, Fefe Dobson, and Sugababes.
In addition to writing, Holly is actively pursuing her production career full time. She has coproduced tracks for Otep, Porcelain and Fefe Dobson. She recently finished producing the debut Adult Alt pop record for Antonia Bennett, daughter of legendary singer, Tony Bennett, as well as Antonia’s first jazz EP, Natural and the eagerly awaited jazz record of American Standards on Universal Records. Her ability to move from one genre to the next has given her a thirty year career in the music business.
Holly also indulges in another passion, art photography . In her soare time she has traveled all over the world, capturing photographic moments .She is planning an exhibit of her work in 2011, and has a photographic website, hollyknightphotography.com
Holly has a professional Protools HD recording studio called The Jewelbox in Los Angeles, and is proficient on Protools. In addition to her various ongoing projects, Holly has begun doing Master Songwriting and Master Production Classes, as well as special engagements involving lectures and mentoring at Universities and Music Institutions. She enjoys sharing her stories, experiences and feedback with young emerging artists.
For contact information]
knightlife@earthlink.net
For Licensing: primarywavemusic.com
Management: Alia Fahlborg
alia@producermgmt.com
hollyknight.com
hollyknightphotograpy.com
She has written hits for some of the biggest artists in music. Her songs have won three Grammys for best vocal performance in the rock category. She was voted Best Songwriter in Rolling Stones' 11th annual poll, along with such luminaries as Phil Collins, Paul Simon, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen.
Holly has written an incredible string of hits, starting with Better Be Good To Me, Simply The Best, In Your Wildest Dreams/Tina Turner (Tina has cut nine of Holly's songs), Love Is A Battlefield, Invincible/Pat Benatar, Never/Heart, and Ragdoll/Aerosmith which is appears in the massively successful video game, Guitar Heroes/Aerosmith, Love Touch/Rod Stewart, The Warrior/Patty Smyth, featured in Guitar Heroes/ The 80s, Obsession (Animotion), Just Between You and Me/Lou Gramm (Foreigner), Change/John Waite, Baby Me/Chaka Khan, Hide Your Heart /Kiss and the list goes on.
Holly has collaborated with many other songwriters and recording artists over the years. Her own bands, Spider and Device both had top forty hits, while Device was on MTV's heavy-rotation playlist for four consecutive months.
She has sung and performed on many albums, including backup vocals for Tina Turner, Rod Stewart and Heart. Her songs have been featured in box-office smashes such as Thelma and Louise, Visionquest, Legend of Billie Jean, Mad Max-Beyond The Thunderdome, Stewart Little II, Thirteen Going On Thirty, What The Bleep, and hit TV shows such as Nip Tuck, The Singing Bee, American Idol, Oprah Winfrey, The Simpsons, Family Guy, 30 Rock and South Park.
In 2002, Holly produced and co-wrote the title theme song for the hugely popular cult TV show, Angel. She then went on to write and produce the title theme song for the CBS hit sitcom, Still Standing, which received the ASCAP award for recognition as one of the top TV music themes of 2003, as well as the same award again in 2004.
A New York City native, Holly started studying classical piano at age four, continuing her studies for ten years. By the time she reached her teens she was sneaking out of the house at night to see rock bands perform. ‘I loved the outrageous lifestyle and rebelliousness of rock and roll. The juxtapostion of classical and hard rock just seemed to work for me. At home, growing up I was exposed to all kinds of music. Broadway plays by Lerner and Lowe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, exotic music like Ravi Shankar and Ska from Jamaica, Greek Music, Irish and Italian crooners, just a potpourri of musical influences. At the same time, I discovered The Doors, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Zeppelin., Aerosmith, Queen, well from there I just went full throttle down the Rabbit Hole.’”
Holly signed her first record and publishing deal when she was twenty with well known songwriter/producer, Mike Chapman and Dreamland Records/Polygram, She cites Chapman as being her mentor and together they wrote a string of hits over a short period of time. Next, she signed a six year publishing deal with EMI Publishing,and after turning down a chance to resign a third deal with EMI, she decided it was time to publish herself. Her first company, Knightlife Music was very successful and in 2007 she sold half her catalogue for an undisclosed amount to a highly respected and elite independent publishing and marketing company called Primary Wave Music . She now co-owns her earlier catalogue with. Primary Wave whose function is to tastefully market her tunes .After Holly sold a portion of Knightlife Music, she formed a new publishing company, Good Knight Songs .
Recently Holly has written with or for Zander Bleck, Antonia Bennett, Cherie Currie, Rev Theory, Hawk Nelson, The Donnas, Porcelain Black, Otep, Sick Puppies, Hunter Valentine, Meatloaf, Paul Stanley, Leigh Nash, Less Than Jake, Fefe Dobson, and Sugababes.
In addition to writing, Holly is actively pursuing her production career full time. She has coproduced tracks for Otep, Porcelain and Fefe Dobson. She recently finished producing the debut Adult Alt pop record for Antonia Bennett, daughter of legendary singer, Tony Bennett, as well as Antonia’s first jazz EP, Natural and the eagerly awaited jazz record of American Standards on Universal Records. Her ability to move from one genre to the next has given her a thirty year career in the music business.
Holly also indulges in another passion, art photography . In her soare time she has traveled all over the world, capturing photographic moments .She is planning an exhibit of her work in 2011, and has a photographic website, hollyknightphotography.com
Holly has a professional Protools HD recording studio called The Jewelbox in Los Angeles, and is proficient on Protools. In addition to her various ongoing projects, Holly has begun doing Master Songwriting and Master Production Classes, as well as special engagements involving lectures and mentoring at Universities and Music Institutions. She enjoys sharing her stories, experiences and feedback with young emerging artists.
For contact information]
knightlife@earthlink.net
For Licensing: primarywavemusic.com
Management: Alia Fahlborg
alia@producermgmt.com
hollyknight.com
hollyknightphotograpy.com
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206 Tracks Found
Animotion
Album: Strange Behaviour
Genres: 80s, Dance, New Wave, Pop
Moods: Energetic, Happy, Party
Recent Placements
- Advertising: Mastercard Commercial "Obsession"
- Advertising: CVS Radio Spots "The Best"
- Advertising: Papa John's Pizza Commercial "The Best"
- Television: NBC's 30 Rock "The Best"
- Television: NBC's The Singing Bee "The Best"
- Television: NBC's Singing Bee "Love Is A Battlefield"
- Video Game: Singstar 80's "The Best"
- Video Game: Guitar Hero 80's Edition "The Warrior"
- Say It With Music Hallmark Card "The Best"
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