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AMANDA HOLLEY
has one true love and that is music, relying from childhood on the spirit of music to lead her out of struggle into her own inner strengthin order to become a consummate musician (violin & piano from age 2) and vocalist and develop her passion. Music is in Amanda's blood. It has been said that she sang even before she could speak.
Her voice could sometimes be heard from the rooftops of Newark, NJ where she would well for some months of her infancy with her musical mother (trained concert cellist out of Manhattan School Of Music, Cheryl Tedesco) and her guitar strumming “estranged” songwriting Dad, Gregory Holley, (who composed for Sarah Vaughn and others) .From the age of two, the multi-ethnic (African American, Cherokee Indian, Italian, & Egyptian) Amanda Holley practically lived in the orchestra pit while her mother would play some of the greatest musicals and symphonies ever written and she immediately caught the songwriting bug explaining in a 3 year olds terms, “I hear angel voices in my head”.
At age 8, Amanda saw her father for the first time since infancy and discovered thathe was a songwriter and was very much alive and that his sister, her Aunt, Pat Holley was too a songwriter for Stephanie Mills and herself a Juilliard trained composer, vocalist, and arranger. This made everything make sense to her. AMANDA has been surrounded by the gift of music, is a published poet (Columbia Press at age 16), and the young singer is currently working with esteemed major label executives on her upcoming release (TBA). Inspired by other female artists, such as, Whitney, Mariah, Aretha, Ella, and Billie she was determined to join these healing and inspiring vocalists. She always survived tough times by listening to and creating great music. When she was 8 years old performing at local events in her native NJ, she astonished audiences with her soul, maturity and her connection to the sophisticated lyrics much too advanced for her tender age.
AMANDA has even performed with the world renowned, Les Paul,at the jazz hot spot, Iridium as a teenager. Her former manager, the late great Phil Ramone encouraged her to carry her SOULFUL voice and writing style into today's pop generation.
has one true love and that is music, relying from childhood on the spirit of music to lead her out of struggle into her own inner strengthin order to become a consummate musician (violin & piano from age 2) and vocalist and develop her passion. Music is in Amanda's blood. It has been said that she sang even before she could speak.
Her voice could sometimes be heard from the rooftops of Newark, NJ where she would well for some months of her infancy with her musical mother (trained concert cellist out of Manhattan School Of Music, Cheryl Tedesco) and her guitar strumming “estranged” songwriting Dad, Gregory Holley, (who composed for Sarah Vaughn and others) .From the age of two, the multi-ethnic (African American, Cherokee Indian, Italian, & Egyptian) Amanda Holley practically lived in the orchestra pit while her mother would play some of the greatest musicals and symphonies ever written and she immediately caught the songwriting bug explaining in a 3 year olds terms, “I hear angel voices in my head”.
At age 8, Amanda saw her father for the first time since infancy and discovered thathe was a songwriter and was very much alive and that his sister, her Aunt, Pat Holley was too a songwriter for Stephanie Mills and herself a Juilliard trained composer, vocalist, and arranger. This made everything make sense to her. AMANDA has been surrounded by the gift of music, is a published poet (Columbia Press at age 16), and the young singer is currently working with esteemed major label executives on her upcoming release (TBA). Inspired by other female artists, such as, Whitney, Mariah, Aretha, Ella, and Billie she was determined to join these healing and inspiring vocalists. She always survived tough times by listening to and creating great music. When she was 8 years old performing at local events in her native NJ, she astonished audiences with her soul, maturity and her connection to the sophisticated lyrics much too advanced for her tender age.
AMANDA has even performed with the world renowned, Les Paul,at the jazz hot spot, Iridium as a teenager. Her former manager, the late great Phil Ramone encouraged her to carry her SOULFUL voice and writing style into today's pop generation.
