Holly Knight - Songwriter - Official Website

"Angel" Theme by Holly Knight

HOLLY KNIGHT is an accomplished songwriter and musician. She has written hits for some of the biggest artists in rock 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) - in fact, over the years, Tina has cut eleven of Holly's songs. Love Is A Battlefield, Invincible (Pat Benatar), Never (Heart), Ragdoll (Aerosmith) currently featured in the new Guitar Heroes/Aerosmith video game 2008. Love Touch(Rod Stewart),The Warrior(Patty Smyth)...currently featured in the Warrior Guitar Heroes (2008), The 80s, Obsession (Animotion),Just Between You and Me(Lou Gramm),Baby Me(Chaka Khan),Hide Your Heart(Kiss),Stick To your Guns(Bon Jovi) and the list goes on.

Holly has collaborated with many other songwriters, and recording artists over the years. Her bands Spider and Device, both had top forty hits: 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 such hit TV shows as Nip Tuck, The Singing Bee, American Idol, Oprah Winfrey, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park. Holly produced and co-wrote the title theme song for the wildly successful TV show called Angel. She also wrote and produced the title theme song for the CBS hit sitcom, Still Standing, which received not only the ASCAP award for recognition as one of the top TV series of 2003, but it also received the same award again in 2004.

Some of the artists that she has written with or for recently are The Donnas (new record Bitchin), Porcelain, Otep, Sick Puppies, Meatloaf, Hawk Nelson, Katy Perry, Paul Stanley (Kiss), Revelation Theory, Leigh Nash, Less Than Jake,Fefe Dobson, Sugarcubes, Donna Summer and many new and rising artists.

The New York native songwriter started studying classical piano at age four. 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 hard rock music, Holly says... 'My favorite songwriters have always been in bands, because they tend to be more daring and original artistically, edgier. I guess that's why I've always enjoyed working with aggressive, rather eccentric rock singers. It's certainly kept my life interesting, and I've been lucky to work with some of the best."

Holly left home a few weeks shy of her 16th birthday, and by the age of 19 she had signed her first record deal. Her band Spider, was managed by Bill Aucoin (Kiss, Billy Idol), which helped get her first gig as a session player ..boards for the 'Kiss Unmasked' record.

Dreamland, her record company, was run by Mike Chapman, producer of such groups as The Knack, Blondie, and The Sweet and a hit songwriter in his own right. After two albums with Spider, she left the band, and moved out to L.A., at Mike's suggestion, to pursue her songwriting career. She signed with his publishing company, Chinnichap, and later Mike Chapman Publishing, then signed a six year co-publishing deal with EMI Publishing...after which she decided it was time to publish herself.

In 2007 Holly sold a portion of her catalogue to Primary Music in order to market her songs tastefully in various mediums.

In addition to writing, Holly is actively pursuing her producing career full time. She has a professional Protools HD recording studio in her home. She is managed by Alia Fahlborg at Nettwerk Management. (see contact page)